Power Skills Essentials for Leading Project Teams
University of Maryland, College Park via Coursera Specialization
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Power skills—like adaptability, emotional intelligence, and conflict management—are key to thriving at work and in life. Employers are looking for these now more than ever. Are you ready to stand out and succeed?
This certificate offers an extraordinary opportunity to spend some quality time with yourself to assess your current level of soft skills, clearly define your core self, and build soft skills which are essential to professional success.
In this certificate program, you will consider what makes a positive workplace where people can do their best; assess who you are now and set goals for who you’d like to become, emotions and emotional intelligence, strengths, personality type, and values-based decision-making, a key to critical thinking. In the second certificate in this series, you will have the opportunity to consider time/stress/energy management, thinking style, psychological capital, approach to change, conflict styles and methods, and communication styles and methods. Make the commitment now to invest in your personal and professional development.
Syllabus
- Course 1: Leading with Power Skills: Building Self-Awareness in Teams
- Course 2: Leading with Power Skills: Working with Personality Types
- Course 3: Leading with Power Skills: Emotions & Emotional Intelligence
Courses
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Build the self-awareness that strengthens how you communicate, make decisions, work with others, and lead. Understanding your strengths, personality, emotions, and decision-making patterns is a powerful foundation for developing the skills needed to navigate both professional and personal challenges. Explore your core strengths, personality traits, values, and decision-making style through reflection and practical self-assessment. Develop a clearer understanding of what influences your behavior, recognize areas for growth, and identify strategies for using your strengths more effectively. Discover how greater self-awareness can improve communication, relationships, collaboration, and leadership. Whether you're beginning your career, working as a professional, or preparing for a leadership role, gain practical tools to understand yourself, work more effectively with others, and continue developing the power skills that support long-term success.
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Emotional intelligence is one of today's most valuable power skills, helping professionals communicate effectively, build stronger relationships, navigate change, and lead with confidence. Through self-assessments, reflection, and real-world examples, you will explore your emotional strengths, develop greater self-awareness, and learn strategies for managing emotions, building empathy, and improving communication. You'll also discover how emotional intelligence supports collaboration, decision-making, conflict resolution, and resilient leadership in today's fast-changing workplace. Designed for students, professionals, managers, and aspiring leaders, this course equips you with practical skills you can apply immediately in both your work and personal life. By the end of the course, you'll have a stronger understanding of emotional intelligence and the confidence to build more meaningful relationships, work effectively with others, and stand out in an increasingly people-centered workplace.
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Understanding personality differences is key to becoming a more effective communicator, collaborator, and leader. Whether you're working on a team, managing projects, or preparing for a leadership role, this course will help you better understand yourself and the people you work with. Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®) framework, you'll explore how personality influences communication, decision-making, problem-solving, teamwork, and responses to change. Through self-reflection and practical workplace examples, you'll identify your own strengths, recognize different working styles, and develop strategies for building stronger relationships and navigating conflict more effectively. Designed for students, professionals, managers, and aspiring leaders, this course goes beyond personality theory by showing you how to apply personality insights in everyday workplace situations. By the end of the course, you'll have practical tools to improve collaboration, communicate more effectively, and lead with greater confidence and self-awareness.
Taught by
Jocelyn Davis