Project Management Leadership

Leadership in Project Teams

Practical leadership skills for guiding project teams toward clarity, accountability, and results

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Quick Course Facts
15
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
15
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
4.6
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the Leadership in Project Teams Course

Leadership in Project Teams is a practical Project Management course designed to help you guide teams with more confidence, structure, and influence. You’ll learn how to create clarity, build accountability, and keep work moving toward meaningful results, even when priorities shift or pressure rises.

Strengthen Your Project Leadership Skills

  • Learn Practical leadership skills for guiding project teams toward clarity, accountability, and results that improve day-to-day delivery
  • Build stronger Leadership in Project Teams by setting direction, defining roles, and creating shared ownership
  • Improve communication, meeting facilitation, and conflict handling for smoother project execution
  • Apply proven Project Management techniques to track progress, support performance, and lead through change

A hands-on course for leading project teams with clarity, confidence, and consistent follow-through.

This course breaks down the real work of leading project teams, from setting goals and defining success criteria to coaching performance and closing projects well. You’ll explore the foundations of project leadership and learn how to create alignment at the start of a project so the team understands what matters, who owns what, and how progress will be measured.

As you move through the lessons, you’ll develop practical methods for communicating expectations, facilitating productive meetings, and building trust across the team. You’ll also learn how to motivate people without relying on authority, manage conflict before it slows delivery, and make decisions under time and information pressure. These are essential Project Management skills that help teams stay focused and coordinated.

The course also prepares you to lead beyond the immediate team by working effectively across functions and stakeholders, handling risk and disruption, and keeping delivery on track when conditions change. By the end, you’ll be better equipped to support accountability, improve team performance, and capture lessons learned for future success. After taking this course, you’ll lead project teams with greater clarity, steadiness, and impact.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Foundations of project leadership

1 lesson

This lesson explains what project team leadership really means: not managing tasks alone, but creating clarity, alignment, and momentum so a group can deliver work together. Learners will distinguish …

Defining the team’s target

1 lesson

Lesson 2: Setting Direction, Goals, and Success Criteria

18 min
In this lesson, Professor Mark Davis shows how a project team leader turns a vague assignment into a clear direction the team can actually follow. You will learn how to define the project target, tran…

Building team structure

1 lesson

Lesson 3: Clarifying Roles, Ownership, and Accountability

18 min
This lesson explains how project leaders create clarity by defining roles, ownership, and accountability early in the team’s work. You will learn how to assign responsibilities, separate shared work f…

Starting with alignment

1 lesson

Lesson 4: Leading the Project Kickoff Meeting

18 min
This lesson shows project leaders how to run a kickoff meeting that creates alignment before execution starts. You will learn how to clarify the purpose of the project, define the meeting outcome, set…

Core communication practices

1 lesson

Lesson 5: Communicating Expectations Clearly and Consistently

18 min
This lesson focuses on one of the most practical leadership skills in project work: making expectations clear, complete, and consistent. Project teams perform better when people know what success look…

Creating a reliable team culture

1 lesson

Lesson 6: Building Trust Across the Project Team

18 min
This lesson shows how project leaders build trust across a team by being consistent, transparent, and dependable. Students learn how trust affects communication, collaboration, and follow-through in p…

Influence and engagement

1 lesson

Lesson 7: Motivating Team Members Without Relying on Authority

18 min
This lesson shows how to motivate project team members when you do not have formal authority over them. The focus is on influence and engagement : understanding what drives people, creating clarity, b…

Making meetings work

1 lesson

Lesson 8: Facilitating Productive Team Meetings

18 min
Productive project team meetings are planned with a clear purpose, the right participants, and a realistic agenda. In this lesson, learners will focus on how a project leader prepares, facilitates, an…

Handling disagreement constructively

1 lesson

Lesson 9: Managing Conflict Before It Slows Delivery

20 min
Conflict in project teams is not automatically a problem; unmanaged conflict is. In this lesson, learners will practice how to spot early signs of friction, address disagreement before it affects deli…

Decision-making in project work

1 lesson

Lesson 10: Making Decisions Under Time and Information Pressure

18 min
When project teams face tight deadlines and incomplete information, leaders must make decisions that are fast enough to keep work moving and careful enough to avoid unnecessary risk . This lesson show…

Monitoring execution

1 lesson

Lesson 11: Tracking Progress and Leading Status Reviews

18 min
In this lesson, you will learn how to track project progress in a way that supports action, not just reporting. We focus on the leader’s role in reading status data, spotting early warning signs, and …

Coaching and accountability

1 lesson

Lesson 12: Supporting Performance and Correcting Course

20 min
This lesson focuses on what leaders do when a project team is drifting, blocked, or underperforming. You will learn how to spot early signs of performance issues, have supportive but direct coaching c…

Coordinating beyond the team

1 lesson

Lesson 13: Leading Across Functions and Stakeholders

18 min
This lesson shows how project leaders coordinate work that sits outside the immediate team. In cross-functional projects, progress depends on people who do not report to you, share different prioritie…

Staying steady when conditions shift

1 lesson

Lesson 14: Handling Risk, Change, and Team Disruption

20 min
This lesson shows project leaders how to stay steady when risk increases, priorities shift, or a team gets disrupted. The focus is on practical leadership actions: spotting early warning signs, separa…

Ending well and improving future delivery

1 lesson

Lesson 15: Closing the Project and Capturing Lessons Learned

18 min
This lesson shows leaders how to bring a project to a clean close, confirm that deliverables and approvals are complete, and make sure the team’s work is captured for future use. You will learn how to…
About Your Instructor
Professor Mark Davis

Professor Mark Davis

Professor Mark Davis guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.