I now lead a workplace team
You need practical foundations in direction, communication, delegation, motivation, performance, and everyday supervisory decisions.
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Leadership and project learning guide
Which leadership or project course should you take?
Choose according to the responsibility you are developing: supervising people, coaching performance, managing through metrics, leading at manager level, or planning and controlling projects.
Start with your current responsibility.
Select the description that most closely matches the work you are expected to perform.
I need to improve performance through conversations
You need stronger coaching questions, feedback, development planning, accountability, and follow-through.
View Coaching Your Team →I manage deliverables, schedules, and stakeholders
You need structured project objectives, scope, schedules, resources, risks, monitoring, communication, and closeout.
View Project Management Fundamentals →The leadership and management path
Build the foundation first, then specialize according to the management capability your role requires.
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Supervisory and Leadership Fundamentals
Build essential skills for leading people, setting expectations, delegating, communicating, and managing performance.
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Essential Manager Skills
Broaden capability in planning, decisions, priorities, people, communication, improvement, and organizational responsibility.
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Managing Using Metrics and Data
Connect objectives with useful measures and use evidence to monitor, diagnose, discuss, and improve performance.
View outlineAdd the people-development course that matches your role:
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Coaching Your Team
Best for supervisors using coaching to address current performance, build capability, and strengthen employee ownership.
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Coaching and Mentoring
Best for leaders developing both immediate performance and longer-term professional growth through coaching and mentoring relationships.
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Customized Manager Development
Combine fundamentals, coaching, metrics, and manager skills around your organization’s leadership expectations and real situations.
Request proposalThe project-management path
Separate the management method from the scheduling software and the performance-measurement technique.
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Fundamentals of Project Management
Learn the project life cycle, scope, deliverables, stakeholders, schedules, resources, risks, monitoring, and closeout.
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MS Project Fundamentals
Translate the plan into a working schedule with calendars, tasks, dependencies, resources, tracking, views, and reports.
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Earned Value Management
Measure cost and schedule performance using planned value, earned value, actual cost, variances, indices, and forecasts.
View outlineThe three project courses are complementary.
Project Management Fundamentals teaches the management process. MS Project teaches the scheduling application. Earned Value Management teaches evidence-based cost and schedule performance measurement. Take only what your role requires or combine them.
Compare all eight courses.
Use this table to distinguish overlapping options.
| Course | Best for | Recommended starting point | Primary outcome | Outline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supervisory Fundamentals | New and developing supervisors | None | Confident everyday team leadership | View |
| Coaching Your Team | Supervisors improving current performance | Basic supervisory experience | Structured coaching and accountability conversations | View |
| Managing Using Metrics | Supervisors and managers using KPIs | Responsibility for team or operational results | Objective, evidence-based performance management | View |
| Essential Manager Skills | Managers and experienced supervisors | People-management experience is helpful | Broader managerial and organizational capability | View |
| Coaching and Mentoring | Leaders responsible for longer-term development | Experience guiding or developing others | Performance coaching and professional growth | View |
| Project Management Fundamentals | Project leads, coordinators, and team members | None | Structured end-to-end project management | View |
| MS Project Fundamentals | Project planners and schedule owners | Basic project concepts are helpful | Working project schedules and resource plans | View |
| Earned Value Management | Project managers, controllers, and planners | Project scheduling and cost familiarity | Defensible cost and schedule performance measurement | View |
Still unsure? Match the situation.
Choose the statement closest to your current responsibility.
“I was recently promoted and now supervise former peers.”
“I need better performance and feedback conversations.”
“We collect KPIs but do not use them well.”
“My role now includes broader managerial decisions.”
“I manage projects but lack a formal method.”
“I need to build and update schedules in MS Project.”
“I must explain whether a project is on time and on budget.”
“I develop employees beyond immediate performance issues.”
Need a customized leadership or project pathway?
Tell us the participants’ roles, current responsibilities, and workplace challenges. We can recommend or combine the appropriate modules.