After completing this course, students will know how to: - Identify the phases and requirements of a successful project, build and organize a project team, and avoid pitfalls in project teams. - Identify the characteristics of a project team, understand whom the project stakeholders are, recognize how individual responsibilities and stress affect the team, and how team members can self-evaluate. - Identify various roles in project team meetings, maximize the effectiveness of team meetings, understand the purpose of introductory meetings and the goal-setting process, and identify various issues that a team might face during team meetings. - Communicate effectively through active listening and nonverbal and verbal communication techniques, and receive and give effective feedback. - Use various methods of decision-making, resolve team conflict, and achieve consensus in a project team. - Empower and motivate a project team, develop a positive culture, identify the causes of change in a team, manage change, and improve existing project teams.