Leading with Compassion: How YOU Can Be a Compassionate Project Manager

When you lead from a place of compassion, you help to create a productive and healthy work environment. When you lead from a place of compassion, you improve your communication, conflict resolution, and negotiation skills. Compassion can make you a stronger and more effective leader.

Compassion can and should be part of YOUR leadership style. Together we will explore the nature of compassion, the benefits of compassion, and how to introduce compassion into your corporate culture. You will learn how to face workplace challenges by leading from a place of compassion.

Participants will:
• Define what it means to be compassionate in the workplace
• Identify the benefits compassion brings to the workplace
• List ways in which he or she can adopt compassionate behaviors
• Learn the characteristics of compassionate organizations
• Create opportunities to demonstrate compassion to their colleagues
• Define activities to help team members become more compassionate
• Define compassionate approaches to handling difficult scenarios
• Create a plan to integrate compassion into his or her leadership style

This course is currently planned as an 8-week online course, assuming one to three hours of work each week.  This work may include video lessons, audio lessons, discussion forums, short writing assignments, and developing action plans.

Your work is independent and self-paced. There are no assigned meeting times.

Course Information:

This course is currently planned as an 8-week online course, assuming one to three hours of work each week.  This work may include video lessons, audio lessons, discussion forums, short writing assignments, and developing action plans.

Your work is independent and self-paced. There are no assigned meeting times. You will decide when you will participate in the course. You will decide whether this course will be 8-days, 8-weeks or another time frame.

Full completion of this course is worth 16 Leadership PDUs (Professional Development Units).

Categories: Advanced, Intermediate, Project Management

Course Instructor

Margaret Meloni Author

Margaret is pmStudent community leader. Her background in IT Project Management and PMO Leadership; enables Margaret to understand that managing projects can be difficult. This is why her goal is to provide her community with knowledge and skills that can be used on the job RIGHT NOW! Her wish is to see her students take on tough projects and emerge as strong and sought-after project managers. Margaret is a dynamic teacher, who uses her real-life lessons learned combined with inspiration, common sense, and a dash of humor to create students who successfully navigate the human side of the project world. Margaret Meloni holds an M.B.A. from California State University, Long Beach. And a PhD in Religious Studies from University of the West. She is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

What is Compassion?

Introduction and Welcome

Lesson 1 of 8 within section What is Compassion?. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

How Do YOU Define Compassion?

Lesson 2 of 8 within section What is Compassion?.

Where Does Compassion Come From?

Lesson 3 of 8 within section What is Compassion?. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Optional Additional Video – Jackie Tabick: The Balancing Act of Compassion

Lesson 4 of 8 within section What is Compassion?. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Optional Additional Video – Dayananda Saraswati: The Profound Journey of Compassion

Lesson 5 of 8 within section What is Compassion?. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Optional Additional Video -James Forbes: Compassion at the Dinner Table

Lesson 6 of 8 within section What is Compassion?. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Optional Additional Video – Feisal Abdul Rauf: Lose Your Ego, Find Your Compassion

Lesson 7 of 8 within section What is Compassion?. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Module 1 Assignments

Lesson 8 of 8 within section What is Compassion?. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

The Science of Compassion

Welcome to Module 2

Lesson 1 of 6 within section The Science of Compassion. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Examining Compassion in Other Species

Lesson 2 of 6 within section The Science of Compassion. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Is Compassion Nature or Nurture?

Lesson 3 of 6 within section The Science of Compassion. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

The Benefits of Compassion

Lesson 4 of 6 within section The Science of Compassion. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Optional Podcast – The Bonobo and the Atheist

Lesson 5 of 6 within section The Science of Compassion. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Module 2 Assignments

Lesson 6 of 6 within section The Science of Compassion. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Why Some Leaders are Afraid to Be Compassionate

Welcome to Module 3

Lesson 1 of 6 within section Why Some Leaders are Afraid to Be Compassionate. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Why Some Leaders Avoid Compassion at Work

Lesson 2 of 6 within section Why Some Leaders are Afraid to Be Compassionate. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Leaders Who Are NOT Afraid of Compassion

Lesson 3 of 6 within section Why Some Leaders are Afraid to Be Compassionate. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Integrating Compassion into YOUR Leadership Style

Lesson 4 of 6 within section Why Some Leaders are Afraid to Be Compassionate. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Listen to this Podcast on Compassion and Project Management

Lesson 5 of 6 within section Why Some Leaders are Afraid to Be Compassionate. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Module 3 Assignments

Lesson 6 of 6 within section Why Some Leaders are Afraid to Be Compassionate.

Making a Business Case for Compassion

Welcome to Module 4

Lesson 1 of 4 within section Making a Business Case for Compassion. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Making a Business Case for Compassion

Lesson 2 of 4 within section Making a Business Case for Compassion. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Compassionate Organizations

Lesson 3 of 4 within section Making a Business Case for Compassion. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Module 4 Assignments

Lesson 4 of 4 within section Making a Business Case for Compassion. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

What is the Compassionate Response?

Welcome to Module 5

Lesson 1 of 5 within section What is the Compassionate Response?. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Compassionate Leadership

Lesson 2 of 5 within section What is the Compassionate Response?. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Daniel Goleman: Leadership and Compassion

Lesson 3 of 5 within section What is the Compassionate Response?. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Module 5 Assignments

Lesson 4 of 5 within section What is the Compassionate Response?. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

The Case of the Sometimes Compassionate Leader

Lesson 5 of 5 within section What is the Compassionate Response?. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Building a Culture of Compassion

Welcome to Module 6

Lesson 1 of 5 within section Building a Culture of Compassion.

Make Compassion Part of YOUR Corporate Culture

Lesson 2 of 5 within section Building a Culture of Compassion. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Teaching Team Members to Be Compassionate

Lesson 3 of 5 within section Building a Culture of Compassion. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Additional Optional Video – Compassion at Work with Jane Dutton

Lesson 4 of 5 within section Building a Culture of Compassion. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Module 6 Assignments

Lesson 5 of 5 within section Building a Culture of Compassion. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Being Compassionate in Difficult Situations

Welcome to Module 7

Lesson 1 of 5 within section Being Compassionate in Difficult Situations. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

What is Compassion in Difficult Situations?

Lesson 2 of 5 within section Being Compassionate in Difficult Situations. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Specific Examples

Lesson 3 of 5 within section Being Compassionate in Difficult Situations. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Compassionate Communications in Conflict: Joseph Grenny: Crucial Conversations

Lesson 4 of 5 within section Being Compassionate in Difficult Situations. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Module 7 Assignments

Lesson 5 of 5 within section Being Compassionate in Difficult Situations. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Creating Your Compassionate Leadership Plan

Welcome to Module 8

Lesson 1 of 7 within section Creating Your Compassionate Leadership Plan. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Identifying Opportunities for Compassion

Lesson 2 of 7 within section Creating Your Compassionate Leadership Plan.

Creating YOUR Compassionate Leadership Plan

Lesson 3 of 7 within section Creating Your Compassionate Leadership Plan. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Optional Additional Video – Building a compassionate Work Place 

Lesson 4 of 7 within section Creating Your Compassionate Leadership Plan. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Optional Additional Video – Bring Your Spirituality to Work

Lesson 5 of 7 within section Creating Your Compassionate Leadership Plan. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

Module 8 Assignments

Lesson 6 of 7 within section Creating Your Compassionate Leadership Plan. You must enroll in this course to access course content.

How to Earn Your PDUs

Lesson 7 of 7 within section Creating Your Compassionate Leadership Plan. You must enroll in this course to access course content.