Project Leadership & Teams
PostgraduateUSA-MPM4172022
Course information for 2022 intake
Assess team management styles. Explore ways project teams can be structured. Harness the links binding people, ideas and information throughout the project process.See relationship management and team development as key to efficient team leadership.
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- Subject may require attendance
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Project Leadership & Teams
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- demonstrate the importance of, and an understanding in, the role of people in respect to effective project leadership and team management across a typical project life-cycle
- evaluate project leadership and team management situations and provide insight into best practice within this area
- analyse complex ideas within project leadership contexts and effectively communicate viewpoints
- exhibit the appropriate knowledge to solve complex problems in respect to leading teams
- Leadership styles and project leadership
- Human behaviour and group dynamics
- Project team planning
- Project organisation structures
- Project staffing
- Decision making and problem solving
- Team development
- Communication theory
- Personal communications
- Interpersonal skills
- Relationship management
This subject provides you with advanced knowledge in respect to the development and management of teams as cohesive project subjects with critical links between people, ideas and information.
- Online activities (30%)
- Case study (1300-1500 words) (30%)
- Examination (40%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- OUA-PSU-GCE-2022 - Postgraduate Single Subjects
- UNE-PRO-GCE-2022 - Graduate Certificate in Professional Practice
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
PostgraduateOUA-PSU-GCE
Graduate Certificate in Professional Practice
PostgraduateUNE-PRO-GCE