Project Leadership, Management and Communications

Section One: Leadership and Management

• What is leadership?
• The difference between leadership and management
• Assessing your leadership competencies and developmental needs
• Articulate your leadership vision, in light of the assessment, and consider the best way(s) to realize it
• Processes for establishing direction, aligning people, and motivating people to follow your vision
• Identifying different leadership styles
• Tasking
• Encouraging
• Steering
• Entrusting

Section Two: Leading Effective Teams

• What is a team?
• The stages of team development
• Forming
• Storming
• Norming
• Performing
• Adjourning
• Leading and maintaining effective, productive teams
• Evaluating team progress and coaching team members as necessary

Section Three: Building Relationships

• How individual differences affect your ability to lead
• Identifying your motivational patterns using the Strength Deployment Inventory
• How to be more influential in understanding motivational patterns
• Using an understanding of individual differences to help you manage conflict more effectively
• The definition of ethics and the link between ethics and trust
• The role of ethical behavior and leadership
• The difference between personal and organizational ethics
• Discuss the effect of the triple constraint on ethics

Section Four: Negotiating Conflict

• Major sources of conflict on project teams
• The five modes of handling conflict
• Forcing
• Smoothing
• Withdrawing
• Compromising
• Problem Solving
• The difference between competitive negotiation and collaborative negotiation
• Conflict scenarios and strategies for initiating conflict resolution
• Power bases used in typical organizations
• How to plan and conduct collaborative negotiation

Section Five: Leading Change

• Your role in a changing organization
• Predictable stages of adjusting to change
• Appropriate leadership strategies for each stage
• Developing a change management plan