Course Description
Team Leadership (APPEL-TL)
Audience
This course is designed for NASA’s technical workforce, including systems engineers and project personnel developing the competencies required to succeed as a leader of a project team, functional team, or small project.
Goal
This two and a half-day workshop is aimed at building your capabilities for managing and facilitating team processes necessary to achieve successful team performance. Concepts, processes, and practices for developing and managing superior teams are shared and opportunities to practice and sharpen team leadership skills / competencies are part of the course content.
When asked what participants learned that would be most beneficial to their work, they said…
"I’ve learned that individual behaviors differ from motivational styles. The motivated styles are very important for me to understand and use." —Wallops, 2007
Learning Methods
This workshop provides a venue for learning new concepts and for sharing your successful and unsuccessful strategies for leading teams. Role-playing, case study analyses, and small group activities reinforce learning. Lecture and both small and large group discussions allow you to share your own experiences and benefit from the experiences of others.
Specific Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Distinguish between leadership and management functions within project teams.
- Describe team leadership and its relationship to effective project management.
- Adjust leadership style to meet the demands and requirements of different situations and groups.
- Define and implement open and integrated communication approaches within and between teams to improve the interaction of the team members and enhance performance.
- Build a cohesive team and establish common standards for performance and quality.
- Motivate team members to pull together to accomplish goals.
- Systematically solve problems and resolve conflicts within the team.
- Ensure that agreed-upon plans are implemented.
- Capture and apply lessons learned and best practices.
Notes
This course is registered by the Project Management Institute (PMI) for 19 Professional Development Units (PDUs). PMI Course ID: TL0024
