Leadership Skills for Project Managers
Course Description:
This course provides participants with leadership skills to successfully navigate all the challenges in a demanding project environment.
"Dynamic presenter, very informative, key leadership information for implementation in project management that I can apply immediately. Very insightful & worthwhile. Can be practically applied to my work scenarios." R. Bergman, ADT Security Systems, Inc.
Learning Objectives:
After completion of this course the participant will be able to:
- Identify the traits of successful leaders and emulate the characteristics of successful leaders
- Build a strong team
- Establish consensus
- Recognize the importance of being a observer and learner of human behavior
- Understand the importance of relationship building to achieving project success
- Appreciate what motivates different individuals within project teams
- Know the different types of power leaders can use
- Conduct effective meetings
- Engage team members to resolve issues
- Establish processes to communicate effectively
- Create escalation strategies to facilitate resolution of complex problems
- Tactfully deal with stakeholders on sensitive issues
- Lead a project to successful completion
Course Agenda
- Introduction
- The role of Leadership in Project Management
- Leadership
- Leadership�What is It?
- Trust
- Interpersonal Skills
- Traits of Successful Leaders
- Team Building
- Powerful leaders build powerful teams
- Team Building
- Team Work
- The role of consistency
- The need for buy in and shared vision
- Knowledge Gathering Techniques
- Prioritization
- The role of the leader and prioritization
- Pair-wise comparisons
- The team charter
- The need for team governance
- The team charters role in team governance
- Elements of a team charter
- Communication
- Communication's role in leadership
- Communication methods
- Communication circumstances
- The leaders use and need of whispering
- Communication channels
- Presentation basics
- Status reports
- Productive Team Meetings
- Effective questioning
- Positive customer communication
- Escalation guidelines
- Human Behavior
- Human behavior requires life long study
- People skills and politics
- Maslow's hierarchy of needs
- Herzberg's motivators and hygiene factors
- Know thyself
- Leadership styles
- Project management authority
- Theory X and Theory Y
- Delegation and Empowerment
- Power
About the Instructor
Many people choose a physician by finding out who doctors send their family to when they need medical attention. They are looking for the doctor's doctor, the best of the best. Dr. Brown is a doctor's doctor when it comes to project management. He was chosen to evaluate and update the curriculum of one of the largest project management training companies. He was chosen by one of the leading project management software vendors to evaluate their product. McGraw Hill recently published his book The Handbook of Program Management. Leading companies in the business of project management choose Dr. James T. Brown when they need project management expertise.
Read about Dr. Brown.
"Initially we brought James in for just one class that happened to be Leadership Skills for Project Managers. The class had such a profound impact on my staff that we rolled it out globally to all IT project managers and then added other classes. Usually people have to be pressured to attend training but James's classes essentially sell out when scheduled. Most importantly, I see increased proficiency among my project managers that translates to bottom line results." Christy Woodruff, Global CIO of Siemens Energy
Target Audiences:
Project Managers, Project Team Members, Stakeholders
Length:
Two Days
Professional Development Units (PDUs):
14
"One of the most effective programs I have attended on training project managers to become project leaders." P. Harbin, Hospital Corporation of America
To schedule this project management training workshop, call 321-269-1222 or email
Dr. James Brown.
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