Project Leadership, Management and Communications

Build, manage, empower & lead your project teams to success through communication.

Course Overview

Learn key leadership competencies and transform your skills as a leader. During this course you will complete a self assessment of your skills and master the vital components of leadership such as; setting direction, aligning people, motivating and inspiring, leading teams, communicating, building relationships, facilitating ethical conduct, and negotiating and leading change. You will create and refine a personal leadership vision, work on strengthening your leadership competencies and develop your personal leadership plan. Learn to empower and energise yourself and others and deal with motivational differences.

Course Topics

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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