Leadership & Project Management
For people who run the work rather than only the spreadsheet — Project, Outlook, OneNote and Teams as one toolkit.
This is the catalog category the booking system schedules Project, Outlook, OneNote and Teams under, and the grouping is deliberate rather than administrative. The people who need these tools need them together.
A project lives in four places at once. The schedule is in Project. The commitments arrive and get confirmed in Outlook. The notes, decisions and action items are in OneNote. The team conversation and the files are in Teams. Learning each one alone leaves the joins unlearned, and the joins are where the work actually leaks — the decision recorded in notes that never became a task, the slipped date that never reached the schedule.
So the courses in this stream are taught with the handoffs in view: a OneNote action item becoming an Outlook task, an Outlook meeting becoming a Teams meeting with notes attached, a slipped task in Project changing the dates the team sees. None of that is advanced software knowledge. It is knowing which tool owns which fact.
Most useful to team leads, coordinators and anyone who inherited a project without inheriting a system for running it. Public classes cap at 10; for an intact team, corporate training built around your own tenant is usually the better format.
Dates, prices and registration for Leadership & PM are handled in our booking system, which is always current. See the schedule and register. Prefer to talk it through? Contact us and we will help you pick the right level.
Leadership & PM courses
Courses in this stream are scheduled through the booking system. The live Leadership & PM schedule lists everything currently running, with dates and pricing. Course pages will appear here as the catalog is connected.
Where each course sits
Four tools, one workflow. Start wherever the work is currently leaking.
Scroll the diagram sideways to see the full path.
If you are not sure which of these you are ready for, the skill assessment asks eight questions about what you already do and recommends one. It takes about five minutes and asks for nothing in return.
Who teaches this
David Poitras — PowerConcepts Instructor
Teaches Microsoft Office, Custom solutions. Read the full bio and meet the other instructors, including how the CAFE method structures a class.
What comes with the course
- 90 days of video-library access, with the exercise files from class.
- A free retake for one year — the same course again, at no charge.
- No more than 10 people in a public class.
- In person or live online, with the same hands-on format either way.
Training several people at once? Corporate training is scoped to your team's skill mix and built around your own files, which for a group is almost always the better format.
Leadership & PM training questions
Is this a project management certification?
No. This is training in the Microsoft tools used to run projects, not a PMP or CAPM programme. It complements a certification well — the methodology tells you what to do, this tells you how to make the software do it.
Where should a new team lead start?
Usually Outlook and OneNote, not Project. Most new leads are losing time to commitments and decisions rather than to scheduling, and those two courses pay back fastest. Project matters once you are accountable for dates.
Can you train our whole project team?
Yes, and for this material a team booking is usually better. The value is in shared conventions about which tool owns which fact, and conventions only one person has learned do not survive contact with a project.
How big are the classes?
Public classes are capped at 10 participants. That cap is the reason the instructor can work with your file rather than only the sample file, and it is deliberate rather than a scheduling accident.
Is remote training the same course as in person?
The same course, the same instructor and the same exercise files. For remote delivery we use software that lets the instructor see every participant’s screen, so when you get stuck the instructor sees it rather than waiting for you to describe it.
What happens if I need to take the course again?
You can retake the same course at no charge any time in the next year, on every course in the catalog. People use it when a promotion changes what they need, or when they simply want the second pass.