20 - 24 Jan 2025
London (UK)
Hotel : Landmark Office Space - Oxford Street
Cost : 5250 € Euro
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.
Works through resistance; Conveys personal conviction; persuades others, gaining their support and commitment; addresses concerns of others.
Links ideas to others’ concerns, interests, and needs.
Provides logical arguments with a sound rationale for ideas.
Conveys personal conviction and enthusiasm for ideas.
Demonstrates how own views address the unit’s or plant’s needs.
Works through resistance and objections.
Gains support and commitment from others.
Seminar attendees will:
Learn practical techniques to enhance their project leadership skills
Exercise a wide range of concepts to enhance their power and ability to influence others
Manage corporate politics at the project level as well as the senior management level
Master forms of power and evaluate strategies to increase their total power to make a project succeed
Identify principles, guidelines and common methods of negotiation on projects
Develop negotiating strategies that focus on interests and common goals of projects instead of positions
This five-day course is highly interactive and practical. It enables participants to develop effective project leadership, influence, and negotiation skills for immediate application. Using various case studies, diagnostic self-assessment questionnaires, role-playing activities and group exercises to consolidate learning, participants will have the opportunity to assess the relative impact of each and every aspect of course materials as they affect the human factors implicit in project management.
Attendees will gain by participation in this program as a result of:
Discovering their own unique leadership identity and learning how to project a more dynamic image
Learning how to nurture and continue developing their leadership identity
Becoming more politically astute while maintaining their integrity and ethics
Fully understanding the range of skills and competencies required to influence and negotiate project needs more effectively
Applying lessons learned to refine their skills in gaining and using influence positively
Increasing levels of confidence in negotiating with project stakeholders
Learning how to protect themselves against the pitfalls of intra-organizational politics
The organization will benefit by:
Having highly competent employees with greater skills in working in the role of project leader
Developing and refining skills for project leaders which in turn raise their own capabilities and morale
Empowering project personnel to focus on practicing results-based leadership
Having equipped project team members to tackle negotiations in a more effective manner
Increasing the ability to motivate, influence and empower others to meet project objectives
Better understanding and management of organizational and project politics as a corporate fact of life
Day One
The Nature of Project Environment and Organisational Politics
Challenges in the Project Environment
Politics: Project Management Fact-of-life
Project Management: A Political Art
Organizational Politics and the Project Lifecycle
Organisational Culture and Its Impact on Project Management
Project Politics and Self-Awareness
The Role and Influence of Project Stakeholders
Factors that Contribute to Organisational and Project Politics
Political Behaviours for Project Team Members
Guidelines for Developing Political Skills Necessary for Project Team Members
The Need in a Project Environment for Result-based Leadership
Day Two
Project Leadership
Traits of Effective Project Leadership
Project Leadership Attitudes
The Three Building Blocks of Project Leadership
Project Leadership Styles
How Personality and Self-Awareness Assists in Project Leadership
The Concepts of IQ vs. EQ in Project Leadership
Project Team Leadership: Communication and Coaching
Behaviors that Develop Exceptional Project Leaders
Project Leaders in Action
Day Three
The Use of Power and Influence in Project Leadership
How Power and Leadership can Create Excellence in Project Leadership
The Necessity of Power in Projects
Sources of Power
Project Leadership and Powerful vs. Powerless Talk
Building a Sense of Personal Project Leadership Power
Empowerment Models and Practices
Influence Tactics for Project Leaders
Key to Successful Influence in Project Leadership
Attitudes and Behaviours of Project Stakeholders
Developing Dimensions of Credibility in Projects
Project Leadership Trust-Building
Why The Communication / Trust /Agreement Relationship is Necessary for Project Leadership
Project Leaders in Action
Day Four
Negotiation for Maximizing Project Results
Why Projects have The Need to Negotiate
The Project Leader as Negotiator
Preparing for Project Related Negotiations
Active Listening and Negotiation with Project Stakeholders
Emotions and Conflict in Project Related Negotiations
Principle-based Project Related Negotiations
Common Negotiating Errors
Negotiation Tactics Necessary for Project Leaders
How Persuasion and Delegation can be used for Success in Projects
Day Five
Project Leadership Development
Self-Awareness’ and Self-Discipline Skills for Project Leaders
Project Leadership Learning and Mentoring
Leadership Transitions in a Project Environment
Devising a Political Strategy for Project Team Members
Creating a Positive Project Culture
Dealing with Project Stakeholders in a Multi Relationships Management
Be the Whole Project Leader Package