PTM Experience

This month during my Mastery journey I was exposed to the unlimited potential Project and Team Management course. Let me tell you that this course was several months combined into one. From leadership methods of style to assessing teammates through many alternative conflict resolution styles, PTM has it all. I have about 10 solid years of leadership skills with at least 6 years related to Project Management, even so Project and Team Management course has taught myself many new tricks, style, techniques, and methodologies. The goal from this course was to learn and become a more effective communicator. We did not go to in-depth of communication tactics, but we did go over indirect ways that coincided with communication. I definitely can say that I now read others very well and assess their personalities to know how to utilize their strengths to enhance my own project. In conjunction with that we took personality tests ourselves and found out our own strengths and weaknesses. Using and understanding these features can help us in our journey during conflict resolution times. Another key feature I learned is how to budget a project and set up milestones or sprints with your team via Project Plan 365. I understand how to incorporate fixed costs and manage work, materials, and equipment. This course has also prepped me for building and tailoring my own project. I have learned how to gather the right materials such as documents for creating a Project Plan and developing a project presentation pitch. Quality management also steered my project in the right direction in terms of PDCA, Planning, Doing, Checking, and Acting during the evaluation phase. I am able to incorporate the ADDIE method with the PDCA to therefore deliver a quality product. This course has forever engrained the PLOMing mentality in my project management career. I will use these new skills to be an effective leader and communicator.