Become a Contributing Project Team Member
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What you'll learn
Description
This 9 module course builds the skills needed to contribute effectively as a member of a project team, where you are required to work with others, complete assignments and communicate progress and project challenges. Contributing to projects at a higher level raises team and company performance, and also makes you a more valuable team member who is looked to for advice and offered more challenging and exciting work.
What this course covers:
- Identifying the performance measures you will use to determine project performance, and evaluating the effectiveness of your decision-making capabilities
- Understanding past problems and planning for their potential impact on the project, and identifying potential risks for any project
- Knowing what your customers need and what you can do to meet those needs, and knowing the competition and how it compares to your company's products and services
- Sharing with others which idea or course of action you think is best, and composing clear and concise emails for any audience
- Navigating people relationships and the organization's structure
Duration is 90 minutes. It suits anyone who takes part in project teams and wants to increase their contribution.
System Requirements
See System Requirements in the Coggno Knowledge Base
Table of Contents
Module 1: Performance Measures for Performance
Module 2: Effective Decision Making
Module 3: Understand Past Project Issues
Module 4: Meeting Customer Needs
Module 5: Share What You Think is Best
Module 6: Potential Project Risks
Module 7: Navigate within the Organization Structure
Module 8: Know the Competition
Module 9: Clear and Concise Emails
Become a Contributing Project Team Member
This course will help you select the performance measures need to evaluate the progress and success of your project. When should you perform this process? If you don’t have performance measures for your project, then any time is a good time. With that said, the closer to the beginning of the project the better. However, if you’re in the middle of a project, it’s not too late. You can still select performance measures and gain agreement from stakeholders. This will definitely help you as you complete the remaining work. By completing this course, you will know how to identify the performance measures you will use to determine project performance.
Course Result:
Identify the performance measures you will use to determine project performance.
Duration: 10 minutes
This course will help you evaluate the current effectiveness of your decision making skills, and determine what you can do to develop your decision making skills and strengthen your job performance and leadership skills. By completing this course, you will know how to evaluate the effectiveness of your decision-making capabilities.
Course Result:
Evaluate the effectiveness of your decision making capabilities.
Duration: 10 minutes
This course will help you evaluate past projects to determine what went well and what obstacles or challenges occurred. You will then apply this past knowledge and understanding to your current project to identify what you should do differently to learn from these situations and perhaps avoid an obstacle or two. By completing this course, you will be able to understand past problems and plan for their potential impact on the project. This course has been approved for 1 hour of PDU credit from PMI (Project Management Institute).
Course Result:
Understand past problems and plan for their potential impact on the project.
Duration: 10 minutes
* This course is approved for 1 hour of PMI PDU credit
This course will help you determine what your customers need and are looking for from you and the company. Once you have a clear idea of what your customer requires, you will be able to identify the actions you can take to help meet those needs. By completing this course, you will know what your customers need and what you can do to meet these needs.
Course Result:
Know what your customers need and what you can do to meet these needs.
Duration: 10 minutes
You are a valuable person to the company and project team, be sure you maximize your contribution by expressing your knowledge and expertise when needed. Strengthening your ability to capture people’s attention and share the approach you think is best is really not that hard. More than anything, it just takes practice. While there is no magic formula, this course will help you apply a few key elements that when in place will make a difference in your communication. By completing this course, you will know how to share with others what idea or course of action you think is best.
Course Result:
Share with others what idea or course of action you think is best.
Duration: 10 minutes
This course will help you identify the potential risks that may occur during your project, and could negatively impact its completion and success. While no one can predict everything that will happen, nor should we try, a reasonable effort to think through the most likely scenarios is a great approach. By completing this course, you will know how to identify potential risks for any project. This course has been approved for 1 hour of PDU credit from PMI (Project Management Institute).
Course Result:
Identify potential risks for any project
Duration: 10 minutes
* This course is approved for 1 hour of PMI PDU credit
This course will help you get to know the people relationships and structure within your organization. This can seem like a daunting task no matter how big your company may be, and the larger the company, certainly the more challenging this assignment becomes. With that said, the best place to start will be to focus on one or two areas and then expanding your knowledge from there. By completing this course, you will know how to navigate people relationships and within the organization’s structure.
Course Result:
Know how to navigate people relationships and within the organization’s structure.
Duration: 10 minutes
This course will help you get to know the competition, and there will be times you to need to research new information. To do this you have a number of resources available to you. Consider using a combination of sources to obtain a full understanding of the situation. By completing this course, you will know the competition and how it compares to your company's products and services.
Course Result:
Know the competition and how it compares to your company's products and services.
Duration: 10 minutes
This course presents four communication principles you can apply to any email you compose, for any person you want to communicate with. While simple and straightforward, it will take a conscious effort to apply these principles and practice using them. By completing this course, you will know how to compose clear and concise emails for any audience.
Course Result:
Learn how to compose clear and concise emails for any audience.
Duration: 10 minutes