NSCPHD1017 Project Leadership (generic course)

Volume 2013/2014
Education
PhD education.
Content
Being a PhD student requires project management, financial insight and leadership skills. This course will enable you to take ownership of your project and place it in relationship to the university as a whole. The course will elaborate on the leadership topic; include lectures on leadership styles, practical project management plus university finance systems and governance structures.

The participants are introduced to the basic project leadership skills. Focus is on the PhD students development as project leader and manager. Project Leadership includes practical exercises on day-to-day project management issues, feedback and instruction methods and includes individual/group work on the participants own projects. The participants will have to give an oral presentation on a leadership/management issue at a seminar approx. 2 weeks after the course. The course includes a 2-day workshop Project Management for PhD students - this can be taken as a stand-alone workshop (0 ECTS, contact the course organizers for further details).

Tentative program:
Day 1-5: Preparation at home (reading and precourse assignment).
Day 6: Introduction; Presentation of participants; What is leadership? Leadership styles; Leadership development plan.
Day 7: Leadership competences; Getting the overview; Instructions and feedback models; UCPH finance systems; Making budgets.
Day 8: The project work form; Setting the project objectives; Milestones planning; Activity planning and uncertainties.
Day 9: Quality assurance of the project; Stakeholder analysis; Risk management; Project organization; Exercises.
Day 10: What is project leadership; Leadership without authority to instruct; Group collaboration; Feedback models; Gender/culture aspects.
Day 11 (½ day): Why must a PhD student relate to academic leadership?
Day 12 (½ day): Course seminar (examination).

The participants must expect to participate in group work prior to the course seminar.
Learning Outcome
The course gives the participants the practical foundation for planning and conducting smaller projects at UCPH.

After completing this course, the participant will have knowledge of:

• University governance/leadership structures.
• UCPH finance systems.
• Basic models for giving instructions and feedback.

The participants will be capable of:
• Making simple project budgets.
• Finding relevant information for budgeting.
• Making a full project plan for a small project, i.e. PhD project or similar.
• Handling milestones and deliverables in smaller projects.
• Handling stakeholders in relation to their own projects.
Literature
The participants must buy the following before the course: Kloppenborg, Shriberg & Venkatraman (2003): Project Leadership. Management Concepts, Vienna, VA.
Hand-outs will be destributed during the course (incl. a full compendium on Project Management for PhD Students).
None.
None.
Pre-course assignment: The participants will have to prepare an oral presentation of a leadership issue, which are to be presented at the course. Lectures and exercises: The participants will have lectures by a group of lecturers from UCPH and private consultants. The partipants will work in groups in different exercises. The approach is case-based learning. Seminar: The participants must present their own leadership/management assignments to the teachers and a group of opponents, which will give feedback.
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Colloquia
  • 6
  • Exam
  • 3
  • Lectures
  • 18
  • Preparation
  • 20
  • Project work
  • 45
  • Theory exercises
  • 15
  • Total
  • 107
Credit
3,5 ECTS
Type of assessment
Continuous assessment
Oral defence
5-day course assignment after the course, to be presented orally at an open seminar approx. 2 weeks after the course.
Aid
All aids allowed
Marking scale
passed/not passed
Censorship form
No external censorship
Exam period
See dates for seminar above.
Re-exam
Personal arrangement.