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Leadership and Communicating skills

Description
This comprehensive -practical-course is designed to develop and strengthen the core knowledge base of those who have chosen project management as their career path. Focus on basic principles across the breadth of the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide ed;. 2004) and learn the essential elements for each phase of the project life cycle. Gain the knowledge, tools, and techniques to manage a project from its initiation to final closeout while balancing the competing demands among time, cost, and scope.
 
Duration
2 days

Price
1000 Euro (ex. VAT). 

Audience
The course is intended for beginning Project Managers and managers who want to have an overview of the need for and the ways to achieve leadership as Project Manager

Schedule
See our course schedule for all details about upcoming courses and to register

  • Apply proven techniques in leading project teams
  • Assess your leadership skills
  • Identify and resolve conflicts by practicing communication and human resource skills
  • Recognize stages of team development and their pitfalls
  • Identify barriers to performance on project teams and ways to overcome them
  • Prepare a project communications management plan
  • Effectively manage the stress inherentto all projects

Leadership challenges & Styles
  • Define leadership
  • Challenges in leadership
  • Challenges of leading project teams
  • Theory X and Theory Y
  • Hierarchy needs
  • Professional responsibility
The Meyer-Briggs type indicator (MBTI®)
  • Background of MBTI®
  • The MBTI® and Project teams
  • The MBTI® scales
  • Determination of the students type
Effective teams
  • Team definition - stages
  • Types of project team
  • A high-performance team
  • Barriers to project team performance
Conflict Management
  • Conflict definition
  • Choosing conflict resolution approach
  • Conflict in project phases
  • Managing agreement
  • Handling stress
Enhancing Communication skills
  • Communications planning
  • Communication channels
  • Communication rulesd
  • Barriers to communication
  • Creating confidence
  • Effective project meetings