Next Dates:   to be announced

       Please leave your contact information if you would like to
       stay informed about upcoming workshops and online classes.

Key Learning Areas:

• Recognizing key cultural differences that matter in an international project environment

• Communicating effectively across cultures in ways that build trust, develop a shared understanding and enable the exchange of accurate information and feedback

• Adapting leadership styles to the needs and expectations of team members from multiple cultures

• Leveraging specific cultural characteristics in order to speed up international projects and achieve high rates of success

• Executing international projects; monitoring progress; insuring fact-based decision making; maintaining a sense of one team

• Preventing conflict when possible, resolving it when necessary

Topics Covered

1.  Culture and Project Management

• Cultural differences impacting international project success

• The expanded role of relationships in international business and multicultural projects

2.  The Successful International Project Manager

• Influencing stakeholder decisions

• Qualities of outstanding International Project Managers

• Adjusting leadership style to cultural context

• Managing upward and leading projects in matrix organizations

• Strategies, best practices and effective tools for virtual team managers

• Effective versus efficient behaviors and practices

3.  Executing, Monitoring and Controlling International Projects

• HR management: international team assembly; development and maintenance requirements

• Communications management: plan/scope updates; information distribution; work performance information

• Conflict management: sources of conflict; risks; effective prevention strategies

• Change management: change requests; decision making; escalation

4.  Closing International Projects

• Special considerations in international contract closure

Structure:

Steps 1, 4, 7, 10:  Individual Activities
            Self-paced learning.  Examples are self-contained
            multimedia lectures or reading assignments.

Steps 2, 3, 5, 8:  Team Activities
            Working in teams of about 4-6 students.  Some of these
            activities are supported by participating instructors.

Steps 6, 9:  Class Activities
            Live Virtual Meetings with all students and the class
            instructors.

            Each step requires about 1 to 1.5 hours.
 

All instructional materials are made available through password-protected access to the University of Texas at Dallas' class website.  Students download multimedia lectures to their computers and work on them at their own pace.  Live Virtual Meetings are conducted through Adobe Connect Pro, an industry-standard virtual meeting solution.
 
Student teams are about 4-6 participants strong; each team has an appointed team coordinator, who orchestrates the team schedules and works with the instructors on tasks and issues.

PMBOK® Knowledge Areas:

• Project Integration Management

• Project Scope Management

• Project Time Management

• Project Cost Management

• Project Risk Management

• Project Human Resource Management

• Project Communications Management

Target Audience:

• Project managers working with international project teams

• Project managers working with foreign collaborative development or outsourcing partners

• Team members assigned to international projects

Registration:
Registration information will be available soon.

Please leave your contact information if you would like to stay informed
about upcoming workshops and online classes.
 
To inquire about in-house offerings, please call the UTD project management office at  +1-972-883-5802  or e-mail us at  info@managingprojectsacrossborders.com
 

    Online Class fee:  $595 for the class (about 12 hours)
 
    ( Company and UTD Student discounts available )