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
Organizational Impact
The nature and challenges of the project environment
Organisational politics and its impact on projects
How to promote a project-focused culture
Identifying and analyzing project stakeholders
The Need in a project environment for result-based leadership
Course Outline
Day One: The Project Environment and Organisational Politics
The nature and challenges of the project environment
Organisational politics and its impact on projects
How to promote a project-focused culture
Identifying and analyzing project stakeholders
The Need in a project environment for result-based leadership
Day Two: Project Leadership
Characteristics of an effective project leader
Project leadership styles and style flexibility
Applying leadership styles to individual performance management
Applying leadership styles to team development
Key project leadership skills: Communication and coaching
Day Three: The Use of Power and Influence in Project Leadership
How power and influence can create excellence in project leadership
Identifying and categorizing stakeholders in terms of attitude and power / influence
Sources of power for the project manager
Applying power and influence to project teams
Delegation and empowerment
Day Four: Negotiating Win-win Agreements
The need for negotiation on projects
The importance of win-win negotiations
The project leader as negotiator
Preparing & Conducting negotiations
Identifying and managing conflict
Day Five: Project Leadership Development
Establishing your own leadership style preferences
Devising a political strategy
Creating a positive project culture
Devising a project communication plan
Establishing negotiation requirements for your project
The certificate
A Coventry Academy e-Certificate will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the online training course