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Project Leadership and Systems Design

eCornell's certificate series and professional development courses in Project Management from Cornell University's College of Engineering are designed to develop the essential leadership skills that lead to improved project management performance and enable managers to marshal people and resources even though they may not have the formal authority to mandate action.
 

• CEPL551: Introduction to Project Leadership
  • Course ID: CEPL551
    Become a project leader and learn how to apply leadership skills to minimize uncertainty and maximize the contributions of your team.
    
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• CEPL552: Project Teams: Mining Collective Intelligence
  • Course ID: CEPL552
    Learn how to build a cohesive and effective team able to execute successful projects by leveraging the collective intelligence of the team. Manage the human challenges of forming and motivating a productive team.
    
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• CEPL553: Dealing with Difference
  • Course ID: CEPL553
    Understand how difference can benefit or fragment a project team. Take a strategic approach to harnessing the power of difference.
    
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• CEPL554: Earned Value Management
  • Course ID: CEPL554
    Learn how to monitor and control the performance of projects, teams, and individuals to ensure the successful completion of project objectives.
    
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• CEPL555: Influence Without Authority
  • Course ID: CEPL555
    Assess and increase your personal political power to maximize your ability to exercise influence without authority and get projects accomplished.
    
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• CEPL556: Conflict Resolution
  • Course ID: CEPL556
    Learn how to resolve conflicts without sacrificing the creative tension that characterizes the best organizations. Manage individual conflicts while ensuring what's best for the organization.
    
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• CESYS501: Getting Started on Product and Service Design
  • Course ID: CESYS501
    Learn how to create sustainable competitive advantage for your business by improving your knowledge and usage of system design principles; understand how to build better products and services.
    
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• CESYS502: Targeting Product and Service Designs to Customers' Needs
  • Course ID: CESYS502
    Learn how to identify what customers want and how to address those desires in your products and services; understand how to build demand into your business.
    
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• CESYS503: Exploring the Design Space and Optimizing the Design
  • Course ID: CESYS503
    Learn how to give your product or service the extra design factors it needs to succeed in the marketplace.
    
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• CESYS504: Thinking Through the Structure of System Design
  • Course ID: CESYS504
    Learn how to embark on the detailed design of a product or service by presenting detailed information to development teams.
    
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• CESYS505: Ensuring the Success of Product and Service Design
  • Course ID: CESYS505
    Identify and eliminate risk factors in your design, preventing wasted development budgets, as well as future sales difficulties, product recalls, and bad press.
    
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• CESYS506: Executing and Improving System Design
  • Course ID: CESYS506
    Learn how to hand off a design for production, verify quality, and continuously improve your system design to reduce waste and gain cost efficiencies.
    
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