Leading Project Teams
Project management for development and humanitarian professionals.
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What to Expect
Successful project management requires more than tools, templates, and processes. Leading Project Teams develops the practical leadership skills you need to engage people, communicate effectively, manage conflict, solve problems, make decisions, and support your team through change.
Flexible delivery
Join a scheduled four-week online course or bring Leading Project Teams to your organization through a dedicated learning experience.
Expert facilitation
Learn with experienced facilitators who bring practical project management experience from development and humanitarian contexts.
Practical learning
Explore practical approaches you can use to strengthen communication, delegate effectively, manage conflict, solve problems, and develop your team.
What You’ll Learn
Leading Project Teams focuses on the practical skills and competencies needed to successfully lead, manage, and engage project teams and key stakeholders.
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- Understand how teams develop and how leadership needs change over time
- Lead and influence team members even when you do not have formal authority
- Prioritize work and manage competing demands
- Delegate responsibilities effectively
- Plan and manage team workloads
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- Communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders
- Plan and lead productive meetings
- Recognize and manage stress and conflict
- Work effectively with difficult behaviors and challenging team dynamics
- Analyze problems, identify solutions, and make effective decisions
- Lead teams through organizational and project change
- Support team development through training, coaching, and mentoring
Choose Your Leading Project Teams Experience
Whether you’re joining a course yourself or bringing Leading Project Teams to your organization, choose the option that fits your needs.
Join an Upcoming Online Course
Pyramid Learning offers a four-week, asynchronous online Leading Project Teams course for individual learners. You’ll learn alongside other professionals while developing practical approaches you can apply to the teams and leadership challenges you encounter in your work.
What to expect
- Four-week online course
- Asynchronous learning — participate on your own schedule throughout each week
- Approximately 4–5 hours of learning each week
- Facilitator-supported, with opportunities to learn with and from other participants
Bring Project DPro to Your Organization
Pyramid Learning can deliver Leading Project Teams exclusively for your organization, helping managers and
project leaders develop a shared approach to leading people while applying the learning to the challenges they
encounter in their own teams.
Choose the format that works for your team
Online
A dedicated, facilitator-supported online course for your organization. The asynchronous format allows
colleagues in different locations and time zones to learn together while applying leadership concepts to their own teams and work.
Interested in Leading Project Teams for your organization?
Contact us to discuss your team, preferred delivery format, timing, and how Leading Project Teams can support your organization’s leadership capability.
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Upcoming Leading Project Teams Courses
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Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to common questions about the Project DPro course and learning experience.
Who is Project DPro for?
Leading Project Teams is designed for people who lead, manage, or work closely with project teams and want to strengthen the people-centered skills that contribute to effective project delivery. It is particularly relevant for project managers, team leaders, and others who need to engage people, coordinate work, solve problems, and lead teams through challenges and change.
How much time should I plan to spend on the course each week?
Plan to spend approximately 4–5 hours each week over the four-week course. Because the course is asynchronous, you can complete most activities on your own schedule while participating in discussions and other facilitated learning activities during each week.
Is Leading Project Teams a certification course
Course participants receive a certificate of completing from Pyramid Learning upon completion of the course
Leading Project Teams does not include a certification sponsored by PM4NGOs.
Is the Online Course Self-led or Facilitated?
An experienced facilitator will support you throughout the course. Facilitators answer questions, provide feedback, guide discussions, and help you connect Leading Project Teams concepts to your own work and experience.
Bring Leading Project Teams to Your Organization
Build your team’s capability with a Leading Project Teams online course designed for your organization.