Project Leadership and Communication

Project Management, Leadership and Communication - 3 Day

The skills you'll learn in this course will enable you to apply effective leadership strategies, improve your interpersonal communication, become more influential, help guide your staff through change, and deal with conflict and practice ethical principles during the entire project management process.

With the aid of the hands-on case study exercises, you'll learn to create a motivating team atmosphere and ultimately manage your project successfully.

Manage stakeholders and teams
Assess and apply leadership styles
Improve communication
Enhance influence and power bases
Motivate team members
Lead effective project teams
Coach team members
Practice change management
Manage individual and team conflict
Practice ethical project management

Outline:

1. Introduction to Project Leadership

What Is Project Management?
Role of Project Manager as Organizational Leader
Begin Developing Leadership Development Plan
The Triple Constraint
Leadership Skills
Stakeholders

2. Leadership and Management

Leadership vs. Management
Leadership Orientation
Management Styles
Three Functions of Management
Trait Theory
Fiedler's Contingency Model
The Leaders Window

3. Interpersonal Communication

The Communication Loop
Filters and Barriers
The Interpersonal Gap
Active Listening

4. Influence

Influences on a Project Manager
Influence Styles
Power and the Project Manager

5. Motivation

Motivation Theories
Motivating Under-Performing Team Members
Rewards and Behavior
Creating a Motivation Plan
Vroom's Expectancy Theory

6. Effective Teams

Team Roles
Stages of Project Team Development
- Forming
- Storming
- Norming
- Performing
- Deforming
Team Process and Functional Teams
Coaching Team Members
Types of risks in complex projects
Approaches to identification
Risk assessment and response planning