Project Leadership & Management
The course provides a comprehensive understanding of budgeting, scheduling, and everything you need to know to successfully manage projects.
| Award Name | Special Purpose Diploma (Level 9 NFQ) |
|---|---|
| NFQ Classification | Special Purpose |
| Awarding Body | Technological University Dublin |
| NFQ Level | Level 9 NFQ |
| Award Name | NFQ Classification | Awarding Body | NFQ Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Special Purpose Diploma (Level 9 NFQ) | Special Purpose | Technological University Dublin | Level 9 NFQ |
Duration
15 or 9 weeks Online
Course options below:
15 weeks: 14 March - 13 June 2024, Thursday 18:30 - 21:30
9 weeks: 6 June - 1 August 2024, Thursday 09:00 - 16:00
15 weeks: 29 August - 28 November 2024, Thursday 18:30 - 21:30
Entry Requirements
Entry Requirements
• A level 8 degree, or equivalent qualification from a recognised body.
• If you don’t have a third-level qualification but have relevant professional work experience, the Course Director may need to interview you to assess your suitability.
• Applications will be reviewed by the IPM’s Admissions Assessment Board. A CV will be required to check the eligibility.
Further information
Start dates:
14 March 2024
6 June 2024
29 August 2024
€2,750
There are two payment options available:
• Full payment before the start of the course;
• 50/50 instalment plan: the first instalment of 50% should be paid upfront, and the remainder halfway through the course (week 7).
Great project managers are prepared to go a step beyond to emerge as a Project Leaders. This part-time diploma in leadership and management will help you find your leadership style and prepare you to demonstrate emotional intelligence, excel at communication, build productive relationships, and lead high-functioning teams.
Transform from Project Manager to Project Leader
Project leadership refers to the capability of guiding a team towards successful project completion. Project leaders bring people together to achieve a common goal and accomplish more than they could as individuals.
Organisations face change and disruption in many ways, which can feel unsettling for stakeholders and project teams. It is up to project managers to take a stand and develop the essential leadership skill set to motivate, inspire, energise and guide people to innovate processes and execute plans with strategic impact.
This diploma in leadership and management offers a university-backed curriculum taught by 10 industry experts and three credentials to help you develop the ability to make effective decisions while engaging and empowering teams in different organisational cultures. It’s time to take your career one step further, refine your leadership and management styles and discover who you are as a project leader.
What will I learn?
This course examines the capabilities, attitudes and behaviours needed to become a confident, driven and focused project leader. Classes are delivered in an engaging manner, combining a practical framework with inspirational stories from real-industry practitioners and academics.
This course is for...
• Professionals from a wide range of backgrounds with an appetite for leading and managing change, executing organisational strategy and driving successful project performance.
• Mid to senior-level professionals, team leaders, managers and any professional directly responsible for the success of projects and programmes regardless of their job title.
• Emerging leaders who wish to master the foundations of impactful leadership.
• Project managers responsible for a leadership function with
experience managing complex projects.
• Professionals working either in the private and the public sectors in any size of organisation.
These modules were designed to help you manage change and generate positive results while growing as a project leader who can successfully empower a team to contribute to project success.
• The Role of Strategic Project Leaders
• Strategic Project Leadership Competencies
• Building & Motivating Strategic Project Teams
• Applying Agile Mindset to Strategic Projects
• Building Engaged Stakeholder Networks
• Managing Power, Interests, Conflict, & Crises
• Strategic Project Leadership Skills
• Leading Transformation, Innovation and Change
• Structuring Project Organisations
• Political, Ethical and Social Leadership
• Leading and Managing Global Projects
• Managing Virtual Project Teams
• Negotiating & Influencing Project Agreements
• Programme Review
The course is assessed through four written assignments and a 3-hour online examination at the end of the course.
NFQ Level 9 Special Purpose Award (15 ECTS) validated by Technological University of Dublin
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
• Evaluate the role and competencies of leadership in delivering excellence in projects and programmes in a global environment.
• Critically evaluate three core substantive areas of organizational behaviour: leadership and followership; corporate and national culture; the primary task and effective team/group dynamics.
• Analyse the nature, interests, and different power bases of stakeholder groups and prioritize and manage stakeholders.
• Apply negotiation and influence techniques to enhance satisfactory agreements with others.
• Adapt leadership style and role to group dynamics; and manage teams effectively in predictive, agile, and hybrid project environments.
• Maintain personal integrity that supports an environment built on trust, individual and organizational development, and helps others feel secure and confident.
• Moderate or solve conflicts and crises by observing the balance between group dynamics, personal agendas, environmental resources, and constraints.
• Reflect on the outcome of an individualized self‐assessment against the Individual Competence Baseline of the International Project Management Association.
• Construct a project plan to achieve varying scale, geographic dispersion, and complexity objectives; while mitigating the potential risks inherent in large, complex, intercultural, and virtual projects.
Tel: 01 6614677
Email: info@projectmanagement.ie