“PM for all™” – Intensive small group teaching in leadership and PM, for many students at low cost

Teaching project management and leadership confronts most European universities with a dilemma. Either they pay teachers (e.g. from industry) to intensively teach a small number of students or they let teachers (often faculty staff) give large ex-cathedra lectures. What is needed is intensive interactive teaching for a large number of students. Our course “PM for all™” delivers this: by means of a train-the-trainer course, we enable students to teach other students in small groups intensively. In this article, we explore the possibilities and limitations of this teaching method and present didactical evaluations of our course showing strengths and weaknesses. We discuss possible improvements as well as the applicability of this teaching method to any soft skills area.