Effective Project Leadership

Training Provided by Boston University Corporate Education Center Project managers must be able to assess situations quickly and accurately to maximize project resources and minimize project threats, this course will present the competencies needed to apply project leadership to create the positive project environment. Do you have the tools to provide project leadership? This course will provide you with the needed information to answer that question. Each student will complete a project leadership assessment tool, learn the various methods of leadership and how the methods interact to create the project dynamic and how to lead project resources to project success as defined by the project sponsor.

Effective Project Leadership

MDP255 - Effective Project Leadership

Course description
Project managers must be able to assess situations quickly and accurately to maximize project resources and minimize project threats, this course will present the competencies needed to apply project leadership to create the positive project environment. Do you have the tools to provide project leadership? This course will provide you with the needed information to answer that question. Each student will complete a project leadership assessment tool, learn the various methods of leadership and how the methods interact to create the project dynamic and how to lead project resources to project success as defined by the project sponsor.

Who should attend
All project personnel would benefit by attending this class, especially project personnel who desire excellence in leading project resources.

What you will achieve

• Learn methods of demonstrating appropriate project leadership skills to all types of resources


• Methods of motivational strategies to keep a positive project dynamic


• How project leadership is viewed and assessed by the project stakeholder community


• How to incorporate leadership in your project’s change management processes


• How your style of project leadership effects project resources and project success


• The power of the project alignment, a vision of success that is formulated with the stakeholder/sponsor expectations of project success


• How integrated project teams interact with and create successful strategies for project success

What you will learn

• Theories and applications of project leadership styles


• Methods of successful motivation techniques of project human resources


• How to lead effective project teams and negotiate with project stakeholders


• Project leadership is based upon strong project ethics


• Change management and negotiation is effected by project leadership


• What is your communication style and how it impacts your leadership ability


• Develop an project vision and inspire commitment to the vision, shaping project success


• Build and sustain a high-performance project teams by aligning project management strategies
  
  Course outline:
  Course Introduction
  ground rules and attendee introductions
  
  Introduction to Project Management Leadership
  Define Project Management
  Establish PM Critical Success Factors
  Examine good Project Management
  
  Leadership characteristics for Project managers
  Effective project leadership qualities and theories
  Implications of work place behaviors of all team members
  
  Leadership assessment
  All course attendees are present with an established tool design to determine their project leadership characteristics
  
  Interpersonal communications based upon leadership style
  What is communication?
  The spoken word vs. the written word
  Choosing the medium for your message
  Communicating with credibility
  Having difficult conversations
  Communication breakdowns
  
  Leadership in the Project Environment
  Personal leadership aligned to PMI’s PMBOK
  Delegation of work and instructions
  

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