Leading Teams: A Project Management Approach | University of Vermont Professional and Continuing Education

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Program Snapshot

Cost: $499
Learning Format: Online
Program Duration: 2 weeks
Time Commitment: 4-5 hours per week + weekly live session, Mondays @ 6:00 - 7:00pm ET (these are required)
Accreditation: Digital Badge
Discounts: 20% Discount for PMI-CV, VBSR, or LCRCC Members, UVM and UVM Medical Center Affiliates
CEUs: See below

CEUs

PMI PDUs: 5Power Skills
PDUs: 4Ways of Working
PDUs: 1IACET
CEUs: .5 (Contact Hours: 5 hours)
HRCI Credits:5 (Type: General)
SHRM PDCs:5

Leading a team through any task or project requires special skills, and an understanding of the team dynamic and politics. This introductory-level course for managers or anyone interested in leading teams, addresses the key issues surrounding leadership in a team environment.

Why is leadership important to team success? What is required of team leaders to lead their team effectively? This course considers how team leaders must account for the special and unique circumstances of working in a team, where responsibility, accountability, communication, and leadership are shared.

Learning Outcomes:

List and identify the key characteristics and types of teams
Recognize the benefits and challenges of empowered teams
Identify differences in the primary and secondary roles filled by empowered teams and team leaders
Recognize the key sources of motivation for empowered teams
Explain Tuckman’s model of team development
Recognize the key qualities and skills of a team leader
State the value of using the “checklist for team leaders”
Recognize and apply suggested approaches for managing conflict in teams
Discuss the different approaches needed for leading virtual teams

Kaomi Taylor Mitchell, MPA

A career nonprofit leader with a specialty in helping organizations identify and navigate through key growth and pivot points, Kaomi recently stepped down after 11 years as the Executive Director of the beloved Governor’s Institutes of Vermont. Prior to that she worked as a consultant and on the staff of a wide variety of businesses and nonprofits, including four years as Executive Director of a national health advocacy organization, and brought her diverse experience to the business departments of Champlain College and St. Michael’s College where she taught graduate and undergraduate students at as an adjunct professor for eight years. Kaomi holds a Masters degree in Public Administration and Certificate in Adaptive Leadership from the Harvard Kennedy School and completed postgraduate work in public policy at Tufts University.