Course Description
Project Management Leadership Lab (APPEL-PM-LAB)
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 four and a half-day course is an intensive experience aimed at building capabilities for managerial effectiveness to achieve project team objectives and to synthesize the project management practices you have learned through practice and study. This laboratory provides a unique opportunity to identify, understand, and practice effective leadership behaviors in a project team setting.
Learning Methods
The Project Leadership Lab is a highly interactive experiential program design. Developed from over 30 years of applied research and continuous user input and innovation, the program is anchored by a complex computer simulation exploring a project launch — employing multiple decision tree scenarios which activate dynamic variations and realistic outcomes. As part of a small team, you are responsible for implementing a computer simulated project. You and your team collectively confront and resolve an array of problems associated with tasks, vendors, consultants, time, quality, customer interactions, and staff with varying personalities, skills and experience.
Specific Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Lead in ambiguous, complex environments
- Develop adaptive leadership skills: recognizing when to focus on technical versus adaptive problems
- Develop defensible, flexible plans.
- Employ effective leadership techniques and improve interpersonal effectiveness.
- Manage risks
- Identify complex project trade-off decisions.
- Lead and improve project team performance.
Notes
This course is registered by the Project Management Institute (PMI) for 31 Professional Development Units (PDUs). PMI Course ID: PMLAB19
