Project Leadership: Making Projects Work Through People

Project Leadership: Making Projects Work Through People
Managing projects and teams can challenge even the best technical professional, because success relies upon your ability to manage the people on the project, not just its technical aspects. This in-depth three day programme will teach you the skills needed to ensure the success of your projects by exploring all aspects of the people side of project management.

Course Objectives

• Understand team roles and adopt the appropriate leadership styles
• Develop a group of individuals into a productive and committed project team
• Lead a project team without direct authority
• Develop and strengthen your influencing skills
• Make a matrix structure work in a project environment
• Work with a cross-functional team
• Develop a team-culture to meet deadlines
• Delegate without losing accountability
• Successfully handle the relationship with project stakeholders
• Lead and manage meetings to create collaboration
• Manage conflict and resistance from inside and outside the project
• Understand how to manage virtual and remote project teams

Who Will the Course Benefit?


Those who need to develop or improve their managerial and influencing skills in a project environment including project managers, project team leaders, technical managers, consultants and engineers.
Course Duration

3 Days


Course Content
Day One

Project Team Fundamentals
-Managing the project
- The skills and qualities of a project manager
- Approaching the project
- What is a team?
- Working with the project team

Essential Leadership Skills for Project Managers
- You, and what you cause
- Assertiveness
- Interpersonal PR

Day Two

Influencing Skills for Project Managers
- Formal and informal authority
- Developing personal influence
- Leadership SWOT Analysis

Developing the Project Team
- Facilitative leadership
- Team roles: responsibilities and taskings
- Management styles: leadership by situation
- Establishing project ground rules
- Effective project team meetings
Day Three

Executing the Project
-Collaborative planning
- Management summaries
- Conducting progress reviews
- Negotiating for results
- Handling conflict and disruptive behaviour within the team

Stakeholder Management
-Managing expectations
- Dealing with the client
- Contributor management
- Senior stakeholders

Develop a Personalised Action Plan


PL0990 - Project Leadership.pdf