2012 Summer Public Health Institute (for CEU Registration Only)

The Summer Public Health Institute provides professionals with a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in a chosen field of study for a single day or three weeks.

The Institute offers a variety of courses for everyone practicing in or studying public health or fields related to public health. Participants can build or expand their professional expertise, learn best practices, broaden career options, network with other professionals or explore a new area of interest. Course content emphasizes theory to practice with opportunities for field trips, case studies, hands-on labs and simulations.

PubH 7200-106 (SS12): Successfully Managing Projects

05/21/2012 - 05/25/2012

Academic credit(s): 1
Continuing education hours: 15

PubH 7200 Section 106
Class #85140

May 21- 1-5 pm
May 22- 1-5 pm
May 23- 1-5 pm
May 25- 1-4 pm

Room: Blegen Hall 110

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This course focuses on two of the essential skill sets that support successful project management
1. Basic project management processes.
2. Effective leadership skills that support the management of a project, project relationships, and project communication.

This course will be valuable to program managers, project managers, project coordinators, project planners, team supervisors, and project team members who need a common grounding and working knowledge of project management processes and leadership skills. This course will use participant projects as case studies and the basis for participant exercises.
All Project Management Institute members who successfully complete this course will be awarded 14 Professional Development Units upon request, toward PMP certification by the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Instructor: Gary Jurek, PhD

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PubH 7200-106 (SS12): Successfully Managing Projects

K - Knowledgeable

Council on Linkages Core Competencies

Domain #3: Communication Skills

• Leads and participates in groups to address specific issues.
• Listens to others in an unbiased manner, respects points of view of others, and promotes the expression of diverse opinions and perspectives.

Domain #4: Cultural Competency Skills

• Utilizes appropriate methods for interacting sensitively, effectively, and professionally with persons from diverse cultural, socioeconomic, educational, racial, ethnic and professional backgrounds, and persons of all ages and lifestyle preferences.
• Develops and adapts approaches to problems that take into account cultural differences.

Domain #7: Financial Planning and Management Skills

• Applies basic human relations skills to the management of organizations, motivation of personnel, and resolution of conflicts.

Domain #8: Leadership and System Thinking Skills

• Helps create key values and shared vision and uses these principles to guide action.
• Identifies internal and external issues that may impact delivery of essential public health services (i.e., strategic planning).
• Facilitates collaboration with internal and external groups to ensure participation of key stakeholders.
• Promotes team and organizational learning.
• Contributes to development, implementation, and monitoring of organizational performance standards.

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