Course Description:
PROJMGT 7040 Interpersonal Skills for Virtual and Co-Located Project Teams
| Course Number: | PROJMGT 7040 |
| Course Name: | Interpersonal Skills for Virtual and Co-Located Project Teams |
| Course Description: | People issues include client satisfaction, vendor satisfaction, team morale, and communication, encompassing how team members relate to one another and affect their cohesiveness and commitment. These, in turn, affect overall performance of the project team in delivering the project results. Topics include motivation approaches, roles of the project manager, interpersonal communications tools, team member performance, managing conflict, handling stress, and managing critical incidents. Related subjects include the linkage of people skills to the entire project life cycle; methods to handle people issues that may arise on virtual or co-located project teams; and resources available to sustain project human resource and communication needs. |
| Prerequisites: | PROJMGT 7010 andPROJMGT 7020 or consent of instructor or department chair |
| Level: | Graduate |
| Credits: | 3 |
| Format: | Online |
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Additional Information
Learning Outcomes
What you should be able to do after you complete this course:
- Explain why interpersonal skills are important to the success of projects
- Describe challenges faced when working on a virtual project rather than on a collocated project
- Use methods to promote more effective communications on project teams
- Recognize when to use different methods of motivation and the challenges faced motivating project teams
- Address and respond to critical incidents and performance problems on project teams
- Use time management skills and other approaches to reduce the stress so inherent in project management
- Describe the importance of professional responsibility in project management
Unit Descriptions
Unit 1
Interpersonal Skills and Project Success
The Roles of the Project Manager
Challenges Faced in Work on Virtual Teams
Unit 2
Critical Communications Skills for Project Professionals
Effective Communications Methods
Cross-Cultural Issues and Communications
Unit 3
Motivation Methods
Roles and Responsibilities
Handling Performance Problems
Handling Critical Incidents
Unit 4
Stress--Both Positive and Negative
Methods to Cope with Stress
Time Management
Unit 5
Professional Responsibility Components and Dimensions
Codes of Conduct
Number of Exams
There are no exams for this course.
Number of Assignments
There are 2 assignments and 1 project with 5 components for this course.
Number of Projects
There are 10 group discussions for this course.
Grading Information
Letter Grade/Percent
A = 95 to 100
B = 89 to 94
C = 84 to 88
The class contains individual papers, group discussions, and an individual project that spans the five units of the course. For each of the group discussions, remember that failure to submit team evaluations can harm your grade. Don't miss this relatively simple component of your course. The evaluations are factored in to your grade on each of the group discussions.
Grading is as follows:
Course Component/Percentage of Final Grade
Individual assignments: 20%
Group discussions: 40%
Individual project: 40%
Total: 100%