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Project Management Leadership: Lead Teams & Stakeholders
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Project Management Leadership: Lead Teams & Stakeholders

Lead project teams, influence stakeholders without authority, resolve conflict, lead change and rescue failing projects
Created byMo Adam Karsh
Last updated 1/2022
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What you'll learn

  • Lead projects, not just manage them: shift from controlling tasks to building commitment, trust and shared purpose
  • Adapt your leadership style to the person, the situation and the project lifecycle, including under pressure
  • Influence stakeholders and senior leaders without formal authority, using persuasion, negotiation and coalition-building
  • Map, prioritise and engage stakeholders strategically, and write one-page executive updates that win decisions
  • Build high-performing project teams with psychological safety, clear standards, motivation and coaching (GROW)
  • Lead remote, hybrid and global project teams across time zones and cultures, and use AI tools responsibly
  • Handle conflict, difficult conversations and underperformance fairly, and hold peers and stakeholders accountable
  • Make better decisions under pressure, avoid common biases, lead through a crisis and prevent team burnout
  • Lead the people side of change with Kotter, ADKAR and Bridges so your project delivers adoption and real benefits
  • Spot the warning signs of a troubled project, run a health check and lead a project recovery and turnaround
  • Create a personal leadership development plan, build your leadership brand and develop the next project leaders

Course content

2 sections • 14 lectures • 5h 38m total length

  • Welcome2:52
  • From Project Manager to Project Leader11:33

    Explore foundations of project leadership, showing how project managers balance management and inspiration, enable resources, foster collaboration, and resolve conflicts to deliver projects on schedule while managing costs and risks.

  • Quiz

Requirements

  • Experience working on or managing projects (around one year or more is ideal); no specific methodology required
  • A basic understanding of project management concepts such as scope, schedule, risk and stakeholders
  • A current or recent project you can use as a case study throughout the course
  • A PDF reader (or printer) to complete the downloadable worksheets

Description

You know how to plan a project. Now learn how to lead one.

Most projects don’t fail because of a bad Gantt chart. They fail because of people: misaligned stakeholders, low trust, unresolved conflict, slow decisions and change that never sticks. This course gives experienced project managers the leadership skills to fix exactly those problems.

Project Management Leadership is a practical, research-backed course for intermediate and advanced project professionals. Across 11 parts, you’ll move from managing tasks to leading people. You’ll influence stakeholders and senior leaders without formal authority, build high-performing teams, and lead projects through pressure, change and recovery.

What makes this course different

  • Grounded in evidence: every key statistic is sourced on screen, drawing on research from PMI, Prosci, McKinsey, Gallup, Google and leading academics.

  • Proven models made practical: situational leadership, the trust equation, stakeholder salience, Tuckman, GROW coaching, Thomas-Kilmann, Cynefin, pre-mortems, Kotter, ADKAR, MoSCoW and many more.

  • Built around your real project: you’ll apply every part to one case-study project, so you finish with a complete leadership toolkit, not just notes.

  • Covers modern project work: remote, hybrid and global teams, and responsible use of AI tools.

What’s included

  • 11 video parts, plus a short welcome lecture

  • 11 downloadable PDF worksheets, also combined into one course workbook

  • A knowledge check with an answer key in every part from Part 2

  • A models and frameworks reference guide covering every tool in the course

  • A 25-question capstone practice test across all 11 parts

The 11 parts

  1. From Project Manager to Project Leader

  2. Leadership Styles and Situational Flexibility

  3. Influence Without Authority

  4. Strategic Stakeholder Leadership

  5. Building High-Performing Project Teams

  6. Leading Remote, Hybrid and Global Teams

  7. Conflict, Difficult Conversations and Accountability

  8. Decision-Making and Leading Under Pressure

  9. Leading Change Through Projects

  10. Project Recovery and Turnaround Leadership

  11. Sustaining Your Growth as a Project Leader

The course works with predictive, agile and hybrid delivery. If you’re ready to become the project leader people want to follow, enrol now and start with Part 1.

Who this course is for:

  • Project managers ready to step up from managing tasks to leading people, stakeholders and change
  • Programme managers, PMO leads and project coordinators who influence work without formal authority
  • Agile practitioners, Scrum Masters and product owners leading cross-functional or distributed teams
  • Team leads and functional managers who run projects alongside their day job
  • PMP, PRINCE2 or agile-certified professionals who want to build the leadership (power) skills behind project success

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