Onsite Programs - Project Leadership and Project Management
Leading High Performance Project Teams: The Art of Project Management and Project Leadership
Improve project team performance through project leadership and project communication.
Recognizing that nearly all projects are accomplished through the concerted, coordinated work of project teams, this project management workshop focuses on the human factors involved project management. Whether the teams are part-time volunteers or highly-skilled professionals, their productivity and success is dramatically affected by the relationships within the team and the ability to function as a cohesive unit. This workshop provides a vision of a high performance project team and specific guidelines every project team leader can follow to improve their project team’s performance.
Project teams have a special challenge: they come together for a temporary assignment in which they face a unique problem. Successful project teams build a positive project team environment and learn to work together to solve problems even in the face of conflict. This workshop focuses on project leadership styles, presents proven project communication techniques, and details project team building principles in the context of the project environment.
Combining lecture, discussion, and practice, participants learn the theory behind the art of managing project teams. This workshop makes extensive use of role playing and experiential learning to help participants internalize the skills more rapidly.
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Benefits
- Enhance project team performance by improving project team cohesion and project team collaboration.
- Avoid costly project delays due to unresolved project issues and project conflicts.
- Recognize and avoid project problems before they occur.
- Manage project stakeholders - and their expectations - effectively.
- Improve the bottom line by getting people to work together quickly.
- Develop lasting relationships that project team members can carry forward to future projects.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Draw out effective project performance from a project team who have a range of skills, attitudes and cognitive/behavior styles.
- Lead and facilitate a project team to productively solve abstract problems.
- Form a group of individuals into a cohesive project team that shares a commitment to a common goal.
- Create a positive, productive atmosphere within a project team.
Course Outline
1. Introduction to Leading High Performance Project Management Teams
2. Personal Project Leadership Skills
- Using behavior styles to improve project communication
- Stages of project team development
3. Creating a Positive Project Team Environment
- Project ground rules
- Project team identity
- Project listening skills
- Project meeting management
4. Project Collaboration
- Project decision making
- Project conflict resolution
- Project problem solving
- Building a collaborative project decision
5. Achieving High Project Team Performance
- Project Team Building Activities
- Project Team Closure
6. Course Closure
Project managers, team leaders and senior team members who need to effectively lead work groups and lead project teams.
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