Which courses cover leadership and communication?
Ten Power Skills courses cover leadership and communication, from difficult conversations and influencing sponsors to meetings, status reports, and public speaking.
All ten courses tagged Power Skills deal with leadership and communication. Here they are grouped by the problem you're trying to solve. The full table with listed maximums and video lengths is in Which courses count toward Power Skills?.
Working with stakeholders and sponsors
- Professional Stakeholder Engagement Strategies: practical strategies for engaging stakeholders professionally.
- Influence Without Authority: Working with Difficult Sponsors: recognizing difficult sponsor patterns and resetting stalled projects.
- How to Have Difficult Conversations: Scripts That Work: scripts for conversations that tend to trigger defensiveness.
Leading your team
- Tuckman's Model: Team Development Stages for PMP and ACP: how to lead a team through each stage of development.
- How to Manage Remote Teams as a Project Manager: keeping a distributed team aligned.
- Project Manager Career Path: How to Get Promoted to Director: planning your own growth from coordinator to director.
Communicating clearly
- Business Communication: Fix Miscommunication & Write Like a Pro: emails, chat messages, and executive briefs that get action.
- How to Write Project Status Reports with RAG Status: executive-ready status reporting.
- How Project Managers Lead Effective Meetings That Drive Results: meetings that end in decisions.
- Public Speaking: Conquer Fear & Present with Confidence: presenting with calm confidence.
Related courses in other areas
Decision Making Frameworks (Business Acumen) and Change Control Mastery: Say No Without Scope Creep (Ways of Working) also involve a lot of communication, but they count toward their own Talent Triangle areas, not Power Skills.
About the credit
Each course's listed PDU value is a maximum. Credit is based on the learning time you record on the course page, rounded down to 0.25 PDU, and these videos run about 17 to 26 minutes. Report the PDUs on your certificate. See How is PDU credit calculated for each course?.
If you'd like to read first, the companion article Influence Without Authority is a good place to start.
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