Project Leadership in Action

Training course overview

Are you wondering how to develop your own personal leadership style and approach to become highly effective with every action you take or decision you make in leading your projects?

Then this Coventry Academy online training course is for you as it pays special attention to enhancing your ability to leverage personal skills to influence and persuade others to undertake work on time. It will assist you to negotiate in your customer and supplier relationships, with people over whom you may not have direct control.

This Coventry Academy online training course explore politics in projects, leadership skills, influencing skills, negotiating and conflict resolving techniques within projects.

What are the goals?

By the end of this Coventry Academy online training course, you will be able to:

• Appraise your project leadership skills
• Apply a range of concepts to utilize power and to influence others
• Manage corporate politics at the project level as well as the senior management level
• Apply principles, guidelines and common methods of negotiation on projects
• Apply leadership techniques to enhance the performance of project teams

Who is this training course for?

This Coventry Academy online training course will be of great value to anyone managing or involved in projects regardless of their professional background or industry but will greatly benefit:

• Project managers
• Team leaders
• Workstream leaders
• Project sponsors / Owners

Course Outline

Amongst a wide range of valuable topics, the following will be prioritised:

• Organisational Politics and its Impact on Projects
• Project Stakeholder Engagement
• Project Leadership Characteristics, Styles and Style Flexibility
• Applying Leadership Styles to Team Development
• Key Project Leadership Skills: Communication and Coaching
• How Power and Influence Can Create Excellence In Project Leadership
• Delegation and Empowerment
• Negotiations
• Identifying and Managing Conflict
• Devising a Political Strategy

The certificate

• A Coventry Academy e-Certificate will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the online training course