According to recent research by Gallup, only 28% of managers have been trained to lead hybrid teams and individual contributors are even more likely to be without a specific plan for working in a hybrid or distributed environment.
PROJ_PMI 300-0 Managing Distributed Teams provides practical tools to increase the success of projects being managed in hybrid and global environments. Students will gain a mix of technical skills and interpersonal skills that will equip them to improve collaboration, communication, and decision-making processes.
The instructor was really engaging! Learning the concepts and nuances of managing projects virtually and globally is so pertinent in [today’s] world. I appreciate that this class is offered.”
Annual Schedule
Expand the annual schedule lists below to see which quarters each project management class is typically offered in.
Project Management Annual Schedule - Core Courses
Project Management Annual Schedule - Core Courses
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CORE COURSES
FALL
WINTER
SPRING
SUMMER
PROJ_PMI 401-0 Essentials of Project Management (Remote)
X
X
X
X
PROJ_PMI 401-0 Essentials of Project Management (On Campus)
X
X
PROJ_PMI 401-DL Essentials of Project Management (Online)
PMI, PMBOK, CAPM, PMI-ACP, and PMP are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
Course Registration
PDP courses are offered online, remotely, and on-campus. Please refer to the
Schedule Notes for course delivery information.
IMPORTANT:
The registration process for all professional development courses requires you
to register for your course and
update your emergency contact information
in CAESAR, Northwestern University's Student Enterprise System.
Registering for multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a mandatory,
integrated step to access Northwestern University systems. Northwestern
uses the DUO Mobile smartphone application for multi-factor authentication.
Steps to install the DUO Mobile App can be found
here.
Once you have
completed the MFA registration process, you will have access to systems
like CAESAR and CANVAS, Northwestern’s Learning Management System.
*It is a student’s responsibility to ensure access to Northwestern systems
after registering for a PDP course. If you do not have a smartphone capable of
downloading and using the DUO Mobile app, you may want to consider a
YubiKey
that can be purchased from several online retailers.
PROJ_PMI 225-0 : Power Excel Skills for Project Managers
Description
The Executive Team is counting on you to commit a project
completion date. Mistakes will be costly due to penalties if there
is any delay. Your project team is counting on you to guide their
effort so the critical tasks are identified and prioritized. You
are buried in a ton of project information arriving to you daily.
How do you collect and organize it? How do you make sense of it?
How do you use it to make the best decisions for the
project?
From committing to a project completion date based on the
organization's risk tolerance to creating compelling reports and
charts that can drive actions from your organization to address
critical issues to keep your project on track, Excel is one of the
best and more flexible tools available for Project Managers to
simplify tasks related to managing information and also to help on
daily decision making on many levels.
Students will learn advanced excel skills through this hands-on
workshop that will help them to create analytical tools, formulas,
charts, graphs and macros that will support them on making critical
project management decisions. Real-world experiences from project
initiation to project completion will be used so students will
leave each day of the training with the ability to apply what they
have learned in their workplace.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Manage risks in project schedules and define confidence levels
by building a customized analysis model based on your firm’s
probabilities and risk tolerance
Identify potential issues or showstoppers in data and be able
to identify potential risk triggers
Know the ins and outs of pivot table creation; validate,
consolidate, convert, sort and filter your data
Automate your repeatable processes, using macros to create
reports and data analysis charts
Trace Precedents and Dependents to analyze cascading formulas
and troubleshoot spreadsheet issues
Total Professional Development Units (PDUs): 18 (Ways of
Working: 12; Business Acumen: 5; Power Skills: 1)
Registered students can access their online course site
here. An activated NetID and password is required for
login. *Please note: It may take up to 24-hours for registered
students to be added to the online course platform.
Additional Information:
This course is intended for students with basic to intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel®.
Students are required to have a computer (PC or MAC) with Microsoft Excel® installed since they will complete in-class exercises designed to reinforce concepts learned during the course lecture.
Students may also be eligible to purchase software at discounted rates through Northwestern's agreement with Microsoft.
This course has required live, synchronous sessions, held online via Zoom, on Monday and Wednesday from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm CT. Sync session attendance is mandatory unless otherwise stated by the course instructor.
All times listed CST
For more information, please contact profdev@northwestern.edu.
Course Materials :
Course materials are included in the cost of tuition and will be provided in class and via the online course site.
It is recommended that students have two monitors for the remote offering of this course: one screen open to Excel, and the other screen for viewing the instructor.
