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Testimonial

Very informative course, that made me aware of the people types and deployment in a very constructive manner.


Ryan Sinclair
Project Engineer
Glaxo Smith Kline

PMBOK® Guide knowledge areas:

Project Time Management

Project Cost Management

Project Human Resources Management

Project Communications Management

Project Risk Management

 

BABOK® knowledge areas:

Requirements Planning and Management

Requirements Elicitation

Requirements Communication

Requirements Analysis and Documentation

 

Project Leadership, Management and Communications

Build and manage effective project teams


Course information

Duration: 3 days
PDUs: 22.5

Course Fee:
£1495 excl. VAT
€1795 excl. VAT

 

You will learn how to:

  • Better lead project teams through more effective communication
  • Identify motivational value systems to improve productivity and co-operation
  • Recognise the role of business and personal ethics in leadership
  • Describe predictable change stages and identify appropriate leadership strategies for each stage
  • Utilise a powerful four-stage collaborative negotiation process
  • Create a Leadership Development Plan to implement when you return to work

Course Synopsis

This interactive course provides a solid foundation in key leadership competencies and gives you the opportunity to transform your skills as a leader. As a participant, you will complete a self-assessment of your skills and master the basics of leadership competencies, such as: setting direction, aligning people, motivating and inspiring, leading teams, communicating, building relationships, facilitating ethical conduct, negotiating and leading change.

You will create and refine a personal leadership vision and work on strengthening your leadership competencies as you develop your personal Leadership Development Plan. You will learn how to empower yourself and other team members through more effective negotiation based on an understanding of the differences between competitive and collaborative negotiation approaches such as win/win negotiation processes.

Project managers and business professionals who need to increase their leadership skills will find Project Leadership, Management and Communications extremely valuable as they master important skills to get the most from their most valuable project management resource - their people!

Course Topics

  1. Leadership and Management
    1. What is leadership?
    2. The difference between leadership and management
    3. Assess your leadership competencies and developmental needs
    4. In light of the assessment, articulate your leadership vision and consider the best ways to realise it
    5. Processes for establishing direction, aligning people and motivating people to follow your vision
    6. Identify different leadership styles:tasking, encouraging, steering and entrusting
  2. Leading Effective Teams
    1. What is a team?
    2. The stages of team development: forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning
    3. Leading and maintaining effective, productive teams
    4. Evaluate team progress and coach team members as necessary
  3. Building Relationships
    1. How individual differences affect your ability to lead
    2. Identify your motivational patterns using the Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI�)
    3. How to be more influential by understanding motivational patterns
    4. Using an understanding of individual differences to help you manage conflict more effectively
  4. Ethics and Leadership
    1. Define ethics and the link between ethics and trust
    2. The role of ethical behaviour and leadership
    3. The difference between personal and organisational ethics
    4. The effect of the triple constraint on ethics
  5. Negotiating Conflict
    1. Major sources of conflict on project teams
    2. The five modes of handling conflict: forcing, smoothing, withdrawing, compromising and problem solving
    3. The difference between 'competitive' negotiation and 'collaborative' negotiation
    4. Conflict scenarios and strategies for initiating conflict resolution
    5. Power bases used in typical organisations
    6. How to plan and conduct collaborative negotiation
  6. Leading Change
    1. Your role in a changing organisation
    2. Predictable stages of adjusting to change
    3. Appropriate leadership strategies for each stage
    4. Developing a change management plan

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