Course details

Overview ?

The Course

Leadership in project management is a journey of discovery. It begins with finding the best of who you are, and continues with developing and nurturing your ideal leadership identity in order to develop skills which will make projects more successful. This course will reinforce your own personal leadership identity to become sustainable with every action you take, or decision you make in all your projects.

In the context of managing projects, the more people abilities you have, the better you are able to get the job done. Accordingly, this course pays special attention to enhancing your ability to leverage personal skills in order to positively influence others. It presents the skills and methods needed to gracefully and assertively influence others in a project over which you do not have direct control.

The course covers the different leadership traits, characteristics, behaviours and styles. It examines interpersonal styles and skills as they affect project leadership, motivation, team dynamics, trust, and employee empowerment. The integration between concepts is covered with the view to create more opportunities for your project to succeed while maintaining your integrity.

Finally, the course focuses on getting what a project needs through negotiation. It demonstrates how influence tactics, personal power, and organisational politics can all be used while involved in various aspects of project negotiating.

The Goals

Seminar attendees will:

Learn practical techniques to enhance their project leadership skills
Exercise a wide range of concepts to enhance their power and ability to influence others
Manage corporate politics at the project level as well as the senior management level
Master forms of power and evaluate strategies to increase their total power to make project succeed
Identify principles, guidelines and common methods of negotiation on projects
Develop negotiating strategies that focus on interests and common goals of projects instead of positions

The Delegates

Because of the universality of the principles and techniques covered, the course will be of great value to anyone managing or involved in projects regardless of their professional background or industry they operate within. The course will give the participants the awareness, understanding and ability to effectively practice project leadership in situations that require the use of advanced power and influence tactics as well as high-level negotiation skills.

The Process

This five day course is a highly interactive and practical. It enables participants to develop effective project leadership, influence and negotiation skills for immediate application. Using various case studies, diagnostic self-assessment questionnaires, role-playing activities and group exercises to consolidate learning, participants will have the opportunity to assess the relative impact of each and every aspect of course materials as they affect the human factors implicit in project management.

The Benefits

Attendees will gain by participation in this program as a result of:

Discovering their own unique leadership identity and learning how to project a more dynamic image
Learning how to nurture and continue developing their leadership identity
Becoming more politically astute while maintaining their integrity and ethics
Fully understanding the range of skills and competencies required to influence and negotiate project needs more effectively
Applying lessons learned to refine their skills in gaining and using influence positively
Increasing levels of confidence in negotiating with project stakeholders
Learning how to protect themselves against the pitfalls of intra-organisational politics

The Results

The organisation will benefit by:

Having highly competent employees with greater skills in working in the role of project leader
Developing and refining skills for project leaders which in turn raise their own capabilities and morale
Empowering project personnel to focus on practising results-based leadership
Having equipped project team members to tackle negotiations in a more effective manner
Increasing ability to motivate, influence and empower others to meet project objectives
Better understanding and management of organizational and project politics as a corporate fact of life

The Programme Content

Day One

The Nature of Project Environment and Organisational Politics

Challenges in the Project Environment
Politics: Project Management Fact-of-life
Project Management: A Political Art
Organisational Politics and the Project Lifecycle
Organisational Culture and Its Impact on Project Management
Project Politics and Self-Awareness
The Role and Influence of Project Stakeholders
Factors that Contribute to Organisational and Project Politics
Political Behaviours for Project Team Members
Guidelines for Developing Political Skills Necessary for Project Team Members
The Need in a Project Environment for Result-based Leadership

Day Two

Project Leadership

Traits of Effective Project Leadership
Project Leadership Attitudes
The Three Building Blocks of Project Leadership
Project Leadership Styles
How Personality and Self-Awareness Assists in Project Leadership
The Concepts of IQ vs. EQ in Project Leadership
Project Team Leadership: Communication and Coaching
Behaviours that Develop Exceptional Project Leaders
Project Leaders in Action

Day Three

The Use of Power and Influence in Project Leadership

How Power and Leadership can Create Excellence in Project Leadership
The Necessity of Power in Projects
Sources of Power
Project Leadership and Powerful vs. Powerless Talk
Building a Sense of Personal Project Leadership Power
Empowerment Models and Practices
Influence Tactics for Project Leaders
Key to Successful Influence in Project Leadership
Attitudes and Behaviours of Project Stakeholders
Developing Dimensions of Credibility in Projects
Project Leadership Trust-Building
Why The Communication / Trust /Agreement Relationship is Necessary in Project Leadership
Project Leaders in Action