Personal Effectiveness & Influencing Skills

Leadership in project management is a journey of discovery. It begins with finding the best of who you are and continues with developing and nurturing your ideal leadership identity in order to develop skills that will make projects more successful. This course will reinforce your own personal leadership identity to become sustainable with every action you take, or decision you make in all your projects.

In the context of managing projects, the more people abilities you have, the better you are able to get the job done. Accordingly, this course pays special attention to enhancing your ability to leverage personal skills in order to positively influence others. It presents the skills and methods needed to gracefully and assertively influence others in a project over which you do not have direct control.

The course covers different leadership traits, characteristics, behaviors, and styles. It examines interpersonal styles and skills as they affect project leadership, motivation, team dynamics, trust, and employee empowerment. The integration between concepts is covered with the view to create more opportunities for your project to succeed while maintaining your integrity.

Finally, the course focuses on getting what a project needs through negotiation. It demonstrates how influence tactics, personal power, and organizational politics can all be used while involved in various aspects of project negotiating.

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

• Develop a strong leadership identity within the project management environment
• Apply leadership styles and behaviors that enhance project success
• Influence stakeholders effectively without direct authority
• Understand and navigate organizational politics within projects
• Build trust, credibility, and strong relationships with project stakeholders
• Apply different sources of power and influence to achieve project goals
• Enhance communication, coaching, and interpersonal skills within project teams
• Use structured negotiation techniques to achieve win-win project outcomes
• Handle resistance, objections, and conflict professionally
• Develop strategies to align stakeholder interests with project objectives
• Strengthen decision-making and leadership presence in complex project environments

This program is suitable for:

• Project Managers and Project Coordinators
• Team Leaders working on projects
• Program Managers and Portfolio Managers
• Engineers and Technical Professionals involved in projects
• Supervisors managing project-based teams
• Professionals working in matrix organizations
• Anyone responsible for leading or influencing project outcomes without direct authority