Course Description

 

More than ever before, an organization’s work in making strategic improvement is project-type tasks.  Project management is a specialized approach to managing business and is increasingly becoming more complex and sophisticated.  This complexity calls on the professional’s skill in more than just the exercise of intuitive judgments. A successful professional project executive is expected to create a blend of the art and science of project management.  In doing so, it is necessary to rely on the application of the science and systems of project management while demonstrating flexibility, innovation and leadership to maximize project success.  Modern organizations cannot afford anything less than competent project management that leads to successfully completed projects.

 

This comprehensive, but practical project management seminar offers a performance edge by showing how to develop and use a critical set of leadership skills to initiate, plan, control and complete projects using a variety of project management tools and techniques more effectively and efficiently.  The seminar is designed to give participants an in-depth understanding of principles, processes and procedures of project management and the leadership skills required for project managers to successfully lead project teams.  Both the project management and leadership principles can be easily adapted to any organization’s work

Course Objective

 

 

·         Establish project boundaries through scope and objectives management techniques

·         Plan and implement the project within the specified time, cost and quality constraints

·         Understand leadership and its role in the development of project teams

·         Gain greater skill in working in the role of project team leader

·         Learn how to predict project trends, monitor project progress and report summarized project information to different levels of the organization

·         Learn how to plan a project balancing the constraints of time, cost, scope and quality

·         Use basic project management knowledge, skills and techniques

·         Develop skill in leadership techniques of goal and objective setting, decision making, relationships and communication

·         Understand the team skills necessary for a successful project leader

·         Learn to utilize individual and team strengths to achieve project objectives

·         Learn how to complete project cost estimation and financial evaluations

·         Understand the role of stakeholders in a project and learn techniques of stakeholder management

·         Learn to use various project scheduling techniques

·         Determine and balance resource needs

·         Develop techniques to deal with organizational change

·         Develop communication and human interaction skills to develop successful project teams

·         Establish appropriate strategies for identifying, controlling and responding to risks

Who Should attend?

 

The course is designed for anyone who is an acting or aspiring project professional, whether you are a coordinator, engineer, consultant or site administrator in any sector of industry and/or business, including the service industry.  The course is appropriate for those who have some project work experience and are responsible for managing any type of project or those who desire to learn project leadership skills to be able to better manage their work.  Persons who are members of current teams, business planners, technical professionals and engineers moving into project leadership and executives responsible for managing projects would find this seminar valuable.

Course Outline

 

 

Module 1 - Mastering the Project Environment:  Leadership Strategies

 

Day 1

 

Project Officer Leadership Skills in a Changing Culture

·         Identification of project officer leadership skills

·         Challenges project executives face in changing organizations

·         Conditions that exist that require leadership

·         The role of project team leadership in dynamic organizations

·         Understanding the role of strategic management in leadership

·         How leadership skills have changed with organizational change

 Day 2

 

Project Leadership in Organizational Excellence, Goal Setting and Decision Making

·         The role that organization type plays in project management

·         Developing a culture of organizational excellence in project management

·         Learning to set good goals and objectives

·         Learning the skill and techniques of managing project stakeholders

·         Decision making and problem solving concepts for team leaders

·         How to lead a team in decision making analysis

 Day 3

 

The Importance of Communication as a Project Management Professional

·         Importance of project team leadership and communication methods

·         Interpersonal communication is two-way

·         Understanding of how interpersonal communication preferences differ

·         Developing an active listening communication style

·         Communication information distribution and presentation in project teams

·         Communicating empowerment techniques in a project team

 

Day 4

 

Building Trusting Personal Relationships with Project Team Members

·         Successful interpersonal interaction develops trust in teams

·         Characteristics of interpersonal interaction

·         Identification of the personal interaction style

·         Individual strengths and challenges of each interaction style

·         Team strengths and challenges in interpersonal interactions

·         Understanding how teams work better using varied interaction types

 

Day 5

 

Project Management, Innovation and Human Change

·         Understanding the benefits of innovation and improvement

·         Leading personal change in our teams

·         Understanding problems inherent with change in individuals and teams

·         Avoiding critical change mistakes

·         Preparing project team and individuals for change