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Leadership for Project Managers
Length: 1 Day
Audience: technical leaders, newer project managers, others wanting to improve soft skills
Soft skills of leadership are the hardest skills to teach and learn. We also know that it is exactly these skills that separate the most talented leaders and teams from the pack. While there are literally thousands of courses that teach the technical skills required of a project manager there are very few that even attempt to teach how to apply the soft skills.
This is one of those courses.
Many project managers today are only managers, not leaders. Managers focus on how the work is done. Leaders focus on what work is done. A Project Leader is today’s Renaissance Man or Woman. This person has the ability to not only build a project schedule and create an entire project plan but also works with the sponsor and senior leadership to ensure the work is the right work. To put the focus on what work is done in addition to how the work is done, will:
Audience: technical leaders, newer project managers, others wanting to improve soft skills
Soft skills of leadership are the hardest skills to teach and learn. We also know that it is exactly these skills that separate the most talented leaders and teams from the pack. While there are literally thousands of courses that teach the technical skills required of a project manager there are very few that even attempt to teach how to apply the soft skills.
This is one of those courses.
Many project managers today are only managers, not leaders. Managers focus on how the work is done. Leaders focus on what work is done. A Project Leader is today’s Renaissance Man or Woman. This person has the ability to not only build a project schedule and create an entire project plan but also works with the sponsor and senior leadership to ensure the work is the right work. To put the focus on what work is done in addition to how the work is done, will:
· improve the success rate of project
· have higher team morale
· save time and money
· deliver more value and performance
· get people promoted
This course covers:
• Leadership
• Overview of leadership and what it means to those leading project teams.
Defines what a Project Manager needs to do to improve the odds of success.
Defines what a Project Manager needs to do to improve the odds of success.
• Leadership Behaviors
• Discussion of successful and necessary behaviors to improve the performance of project teams.
• Execution Tension Model
• Unique new model that a project manager could use to show senior leaders where environmental factors are impacting project performance.
• Leading to SPEC (Startup, Planning, Execution, Close)
• We take the PM through each phase and details the leadership behaviors and steps that are required to be the true leader of the project team and not simply the administrative manager of the project.