Being a highly successful project manager requires outstanding leadership skills
As projects grow in scope and complexity, success increasingly depends on the project manager’s ability to obtain commitment from all stakeholders by applying outstanding leadership and interpersonal skills.
In this 1-day course, participants
gain a better understanding of the skills needed for building successful
relationships with major stakeholders. By taking part in lively discussions,
participants learn a mix of leadership competencies that are needed to getting things done.
Participants completing this course will be able to:
- Understand what skills are required for managing people in projects
- Apply the appropriate leadership style to the different stages of the project life cycle
- Improve the effectiveness of the project team
Course topics:
- How to get and keep authority on team members and other stakeholders
- Accountability, responsibility and authority
- Effectively using positional (project manager mandate) and personal power in projects
- How to choose the most effective leadership style
- Applying the situational leadership model on project teams
- How to motivate team members during the project life cycle
- Personal drivers
- The motivation cycle
- How to build a high-performance team?
- Building blocks of team effectiveness
- Team development stages
- Benefits of a team charter
- Simulation: tower exercise
Course participants will receive:
- A binder with full-colour presentation material (ppt format)
- Additional reference material
The target audience for this course consists of:
- Project managers
- Team leaders
- Everyone who wants to learn the essential soft skills needed to strengthen their leadership and influencing skills
Duration: 1 day
Trainer: Michel Coens
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