Course Description
Project Leadership, Management, and Communications is an interactive course designed to provide a solid foundation in key leadership competencies and to afford you the opportunity for truly transformational leadership experience. As a participant, you will complete a self-assessment of your leadership skills, then master the basics of these leadership competencies: setting direction, aligning people, motivating and inspiring, leading teams, communicating, building relationships, facilitating ethical conduct, negotiating and leading change.
What Do Participants Learn?
- Lead project teams through more effective communication
- Identify motivational value systems to improve productivity and cooperation
- Recognize the role of business and personal ethics in leadership
- Define predictable change stages and identify appropriate leadership strategies for each stage
- Utilize a powerful four-stage collaborative negotiation process
- Create a Leadership Development Plan to implement when you return to work
Who Should Attend?
- Managers
- Supervisors
- Executives
- Project Manager
- Anyone who is interested in the field
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
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