Strong leadership and negotiation skills are essential for delivering project success in today’s fast-paced, high-stakes business environment. In Ireland’s competitive market and beyond, effective leaders inspire, guide, and adapt through uncertainty, while skilled negotiators secure the resources, alignment, and cooperation needed to achieve meaningful outcomes.
This practical short course builds your ability to lead with impact, balance leadership and management responsibilities, and cultivate a positive, results-driven culture. You’ll refine your approach to engaging stakeholders, motivating diverse teams, and resolving conflict constructively — equipping you to deliver sustainable results in even the most challenging project environments. With these skills, you’ll be ready to influence decisions, foster collaboration, and drive projects to success with confidence.
By the end of the course, you will:
Get the skills to become a master negotiator and an impactful leader to drive project success.
Effective leaders and skilled negotiators inspire change, unite teams, and deliver successful results. This course helps you:
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The course fees include the access to all course materials on the Student Hub, live expert-led virtual classes, recordings and unlimited support from our Student Support team.
There are no prerequisites to participate in this course. However, a fundamental knowledge of project management methodologies could be helpful.
This course is suitable for professionals with experience on a managerial role, emerging leaders and anyone who wishes to acquire or refine their leadership and negotiation skills regardless of their job title. Prior knowledge of project management approaches is not required.
The course runs for 2 days, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Yes, the content of this course is suitable for various industry sectors. We have students from different backgrounds – such as engineering, pharmaceuticals, design, construction, IT and many others – who completed the course successfully.
A recording of each online class will be available for playback in the Student Hub for a limited period of time, so you do not need to worry about missing a class.
This course curriculum is designed by industry-experts to help you develop practical leadership and negotiation competences that are so valuable to hiring managers. At the end of this training, you will have the tools to develop your leadership competence, and negotiate agreements with vendors, stakeholders, customers, and cross-functional representatives.
Successful completion of this course results in a Certification of Completion and 14 Professional Development Units (PDUs).
We offer the Project Leadership and Management Diploma part-time course. This part-time professional diploma on Leadership and Management offers a university-backed curriculum taught by 10 industry experts and three credentials to help you develop the ability to make effective decisions while engaging and empowering teams in different organisational cultures.
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