What would it take to complete the Project Management Concepts course?

This section explains key aspects of the Project Management Concepts course, as a background to the three key things that would be required of you to complete the course.

Outcomes

When you participate in the Project Management Concepts course, you cover actual Project Management content. However, your learning skills, and the personal habits you will need to create, plus your increased critical thinking ability, are actually the main outcomes of the course. These attributes are key requirements for growing into a hands-on project manager or value-creating project team member. This is why the Foundation Tasks during the first two weeks are so important: they help you set out the foundation for building those skills.

Structure

The structure of the Project Management Concepts course is different from traditional courses, in that it is built entirely around questions: questions in daily tests, questions which you should be asking yourself, and later on in the course, questions in your online Study Group Forum.

A person who is motivated primarily by getting a certificate, will focus on learning the right answers, whereas a person who wants to learn in order to solve real problems, will focus on trying to understand the questions.

What it would take

Many people say, “In terms of what I want to achieve, and what I know about how learning works, the Project Management Concepts makes sense, so I should do the course.”

It would be equally easy to say, “I want to get fit and healthy, so I am going to join this cool gym where they’ve analysed how people think and structured the exercise programme accordingly.”

But the gym won’t pack your exercise gear, fetch you from home in the morning, place you on the equipment, and move your legs for you.

Likewise, you need to carefully consider whether you’re prepared to do what the Project Management Concepts course would require of you before you decide whether you are prepared to continue after all.

The following articles describe three things that would guarantee completing the course. Once you’ve understood them, you’ll be able to decide whether to continue with the course or not.

Here’s the first thing: Create your learning habit.