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**Badge Completion Criteria** To earn the Behavioural Aspects of IT Project Management digital badge, learners must successfully complete the following milestones and achieve an overall course mark of 75% or higher. The badge recognises demonstrated competency in teamwork, leadership, communication, project management, and responsible AI collaboration. **Milestone 1: Cool Teams and Roles (5%)** Develop an understanding of team formation, team roles, and effective team dynamics. Learners establish a team code of conduct, define a shared mission and vision, register their project teams, and complete an individual knowledge assessment on teamwork fundamentals. **Milestone 2: Working in Remote Teams (5%)** Develop effective collaboration skills within virtual and distributed teams. Learners evaluate their team's remote working practices, identify team strengths and blockers, define team KPIs, and reflect on strategies for improving online collaboration. **Milestone 3: AI's Role in a Team (5%)** Explore the role of Generative AI as a collaborative team member within software projects. Learners create an AI-assisted project proposal, evaluate AI-generated outputs, and develop an individual AI Manifesto demonstrating responsible and ethical AI use. **Milestone 4: Soft Issues in IT Project Management (5%)** Recognise the importance of leadership, management, communication, and interpersonal skills in successful IT projects. Learners complete leadership assessments, contribute to a collaborative team mind map, and submit a reflective journal on team development. **Milestone 5: Personality and Cognition (5%)** Understand how individual personalities and cognitive differences influence team performance. Learners complete a personality assessment, analyse team personality profiles, construct a Team Mental Model, and complete an online assessment. **Milestone 6: Emotions and Values (10%)** Develop emotional intelligence and establish shared team values that support effective collaboration. Learners participate in team-building activities, identify team values, complete reflective exercises, and submit a group assignment demonstrating emotional awareness. **Milestone 7: Relationship Builder (5%)** Strengthen professional relationships through trust-building and effective interpersonal communication. Learners conduct structured one-to-one interviews with teammates, reflect on team relationships, and complete individual and team-based assessments. **Milestone 8: Decision and Change Management (10%)** Apply structured decision-making approaches while recognising cognitive biases and managing organisational change. Learners complete decision-making activities, participate in strategic planning discussions, and complete change management assessments. **Milestone 9: Culture and Diversity (10%)** Develop cultural awareness and inclusive teamwork practices. Learners evaluate diversity within teams, reflect on cultural intelligence, revisit their team code of conduct, and complete self- and team-assessment activities. **Milestone 10: Conflict and Negotiation (10%)** Apply conflict resolution and negotiation techniques within project environments. Learners complete conflict management assessments, participate in structured debates and negotiation activities, and demonstrate their understanding through an online assessment. **Milestone 11: Motivation and Leadership (5%)** Demonstrate an understanding of motivation theories and effective leadership within project teams. Learners complete a leadership style assessment, participate in leadership discussions, and demonstrate their understanding through interactive learning activities. **Milestone 12: IT Project Management (5%)** Integrate behavioural competencies with IT project management principles. Learners apply leadership, teamwork, communication, and project management concepts through interactive assessments and reflective practice. **Final Summative Assignment (20%)** Demonstrate the integration of knowledge and skills developed throughout the course by critically evaluating teamwork and reflecting on the impact of Generative AI as a "sixth team member" on communication, collaboration, leadership, and decision-making within an IT project environment.