Strong leaders know how to build effective teams, design organizations, and deliver successful projects. In Managing Teams and Projects, you'll develop the leadership and project management skills needed to guide teams, navigate organizational challenges, and manage projects from planning through completion.
Through this Specialization, you'll learn how to build collaborative team cultures, design organizations that support growth, manage change and decision-making, and apply project management methodologies to real business challenges. You'll also gain practical experience with both predictive and Agile approaches to project management.
By the end of this Specialization, you'll be able to:
Build team cultures that promote trust, collaboration, and psychological safety
Analyze organizational challenges and recommend effective design solutions
Apply leadership and management frameworks to improve organizational performance
Plan, execute, and manage projects using predictive and Agile methodologies
Create project management deliverables used throughout the project lifecycle
This Specialization is designed for aspiring managers, team leaders, project coordinators, and professionals looking to strengthen both leadership and project management capabilities.
Applied Learning Project
Put these skills into practice as you learn.You'll complete hands-on activities, case studies, and project-based assignments that reflect real leadership and project management challenges. In Leading Teams: Building Effective Team Cultures, you'll assess a team's culture by examining behaviors that support safety, engagement, and growth, and recommend ways to strengthen team effectiveness. In Designing the Organization and Managing the Organization, you'll analyze organizational structures, evaluate management decisions, and recommend strategies that improve organizational effectiveness. In Introduction to Project Management, you will learn through lectures, interviews with experienced project management professionals, readings, activities, and quizzes. In Project Management Capstone, you'll manage a project from initiation through closeout while producing professional artifacts such as work breakdown structures, risk registers, sprint backlogs, status reports, and project plans.
