Explain how leadership impacts employee engagement, performance, and the organizational culture.
Describe ways to maximize employee engagement and performance.
Identify effective strategies to boost employee morale.
Demonstrate appropriate professional etiquette.
Explain how workplace habits, attire, hygiene, and awareness of one’s environment (cube etiquette) affect professionalism and the working environment.
Demonstrate emotional intelligence skills in dealing with others.
Define and identify components of emotional intelligence.
Describe the relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership.
Demonstrate leadership and teamwork skills.
Explain the importance of recognizing personal strengths and weaknesses.
Discuss ways to identify personal strengths and weaknesses.
Incorporate safety procedures in handling, operating, and maintaining tools and machinery; handling materials; utilizing personal protective equipment; maintaining a safe work area; and handling hazardous materials and forces.
Demonstrate effective workplace and employability skills, including communication, awareness of diversity, positive work ethic, problem-solving, time management, and teamwork.
Explore the range of careers available in the field and investigate their educational requirements, and demonstrate job-seeking skills including resume-writing and interviewing.
Advocate and practice safe, legal, responsible, and ethical use of information and technology tools specific to the industry pathway.
Participate in a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) to increase knowledge and skills and to enhance leadership and teamwork.
Discuss and demonstrate ways to value diversity.
Gather and share information about the benefits of effective project management and the qualifications of a project manager.
Explain the benefits of project management certification and the requirements for obtaining it.
Identify ethical issues in project management.
Examples: intellectual property, false information, taking money from a project, ignoring procedures
Outline the functions of a project management office.
Describe the challenges a global project presents, including financial implications, logistical and communication difficulties, and cultural differences, and identify techniques to overcome these challenges.
Describe project portfolio management, listing criteria for selecting projects.
Describe the stages of the product life cycle.
Describe the technology life cycle model, including the segments and their markets.
Outline the five stages of project management, indicating best practices of each stage.
Example: initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, closing
Evaluate tools that assist in planning.
Examples: brainstorming, Gantt charts, fishbone diagrams
Write a statement of work (SOW) for a selected project.
List the components of a project SOW, including business need, product scope, and strategic plan.
Plan the project schedule and duration for a given SOW.
Discuss how the SOW will be used to monitor and correct any problems that arise during the project.
Describe how a SOW defines the end of the project.
Implement steps of project management.
Develop a project charter.
Develop a project management plan.
