Description

In this Project Management Leadership course, you transition to an effective project team leader who can inspire a diverse team to work together & deliver customer success. Learn how to build a high performing team through an immersive class that covers project leadership best practises, models, videos, and assessments.

You return to the workplace with a plan for inspiring a diverse team to work together effectively, achieve autonomy, and optimise efficiency for successful customer delivery. Takeaways include a project leadership best practises handbook and a personal development plan for use back at the office.

Learning Objectives

• Manage internal and external influences that affect team performance
• Increase productivity by challenging your processes and motivating your people
• Develop team identity and empower others
• Foster productive team communication and effectively manage conflict

Prerequisites

This course does not require you to be a senior project/program manager. It has been categorise as advanced to represent the other side of project management – project leadership.

Who Should Attend

Anyone leading a project team or hoping to grow their career in this way, would benefit from this training. Our Subject Matter Expert will facilitate a very interactive experience for you and your peers, as you learn the best ways to affect positive team performance.

Course Outline

Introducing Leadership Theories and Approaches

• Defining high-performing, winning teams
• Recognising the complexities of project management
• Identifying the actions of successful leaders
• Embracing situational vs. positional leadership
• Redefining leadership with the Leadership Services Model

Assessing Your Leadership Skills

Measuring yourself against the Leadership Services Model

• Exploring your motives and priorities
• Appraising your values and attitude
• Soliciting 360-degree feedback
• Working with a mentorand personal board of directors
• Examining your support network and sphere of influence

Managing your emotional intelligence

• Developing your self-awareness and social awareness
• Applying emotional intelligence to project management

Building a Team Identity and Purpose

Fostering a team state of mind

• Considering the stages of development
• Turning hard work into an enjoyable experience

Defining the future

• Clarifying and communicating your vision and goals
• Collaborating on project objectives
• Empowering others to act

Developing Productive Teams

Crafting a healthy, winning culture

• Agreeing on standards and ground rules
• Encouraging feedback and nurturing the emotional intelligence of your team
• Creating psychological safety through mutual respect

Overcoming communication barriers

• Clarifying roles, responsibilities and boundaries
• Learning the language of leadership
• Turning conflict to youradvantage

Optimising Efficiency through Motivated Teams

Thinking outside of the box

• Challenging the process
• Making decisions efficiently and effectively

Examining the art and science of motivation

• Balancing personal needs with organisational goals
• Adapting leadership to individual work styles
• Building ownership through delegation
• Managing virtual, remote and global teams
• Recognising the importance of physical space

Monitoring External and Internal Risks

Combating the dangers of outside influences

• Assessing the organisation’s capacity for change
• Balancing project constraints and avoiding burnout
• Managing project subjectives and office politics
• Dealing with daily distractions and disruptions

Guarding the team from itself

• Managing underperformers
• Recognising the perils of Groupthink
• Defending the team against your own shortcomings

Sustaining High Performance

Recognising success

• Celebrating success and failure
• Building morale
• Applying "Lessons Learned"

Reaching the next level

• Assuming responsibility and holding each otheraccountable
• Achieving autonomy and self-management
• Setting smart challenges
• Taking calculated risks

Building a Project Leadership Best-Practices Toolkit

• Beginning with the end in mind: defining your success
• Mapping the leadership services to the project life cycle
• Generating your personal leadership action plan
• Creating your customised project leadership framework