Project Leadership Management and Communication

If you’re an aspiring project manager, you can learn to be a great leader.

About this Course

If you’re an aspiring project manager, you can learn to be a great leader. This training course on Project Leadership, Management and Communications provides you with key insights, tips and skills to better manage, perform, motivate and ultimately become a successful leader of both the project team and the project itself. During this highly engaging and interactive Project Management training course

you will learn why management and leadership skills matter and how successful leaders can build high-performing project teams through behaviors to support the technical skills that are already there.

Ultimately, the best project leaders develop others to contribute to their work on the project significantly.

Project managers are catalysts for change. Learn how developing your leadership skills will help inspire a sense of shared purpose in the project team and how to manage projects from

beginning to end using proven project-management techniques.

Successful leaders have the discipline to think through alternatives from a strategic point of view. Their consistent ability to make smart decisions stems from asking the right questions.

If you are looking to increase your skills around management and leadership, and if you believe you have what it takes to lead, then this is the training for you.

Course Objective

This interactive and practical Project Management training course will provide an insight into how project organizations can meet the challenge to pick and deliver the best projects within a context of limited resources.

It will take you through the key stages of project management, and provide guidance on how to transition to a better leader and how to make use of the most appropriate tools to improve project team delivery.

This Project Management training course will focus on the principal leadership factors and other key issues that need to be considered in managing the delivery of major, long-term, highvalue projects.

By the end of this Project Leadership, Management and Communications training course , participants will be able to:

Understand the importance of the mental shift from project manager to project leader
Enhance their personal growth through psychometric and Emotional Intelligence evaluations
Improve decision-making skills to deliver important and timely responses
Cultivate their project teams in preparation for project success

This course will Highlight on:

The Project Leadership, Management and Communications training course will highlight:

How to make the real and measurable shift from project manager to project leader
How to enhance your personal development to become a better leader
Best practice methodologies to improve decision-making
The most current trends which are challenging traditional managerial skills to update your leadership skills allowing you to motivate the team towards project success
Personal skills that take little work, but deliver huge results

Course Methods

This Project Management training course on Project Leadership, Management and Communications will utilize a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This training course will be highly interactive and participative. This will involve regular discussions on key concept in project appraisal and risk management, the uses and limitations of various techniques, and how best to

identify, evaluate, select and structure these high value undertakings.

Organizational Impact

Application of sound project leadership techniques will enable the project managers to achieve recognized potential future conditions to create strategic opportunities via project success. Good leaders help to maximize the organization’s return on capital invested in projects, while also improving company reputation for delivering positive outcomes.

Personal Impact

By the end of this Project Leadership, Management and Communications training course, your potential contribution to your organization will be significantly enhanced. You will be able to:

Understand how to make better decisions relating to project delivery
Apply tools and techniques that address team motivation / assessment
Develop robust structures to identify, allocate or otherwise manage project decisions
Maximize the prospects of successful project delivery
Understand the core elements of project leadership models and their use in supporting and motivating project delivery teams

Course Outline

DAY 1

Transition from Manager to Leader

The Need for the Shift from Project Manager to Project Leader
Defining a Thought Process to Make Better Decisions
Enhance Personal Development through Increased Selfawareness
Practice Emotional Intelligence in a Project Environment
Develop an Executive-type Presence

DAY 2

Expand Your Own Perspective

Become a thought Leader
Learn How to Expand Your Strategic Scope
Learn How to Become Innovative
Improve Your Decision-making

DAY 3

Commit to People and Relationships

Objective of Project Leadership
Limitations of Project Management and Team Relationships
Recognise the Place for Talent Management
Use of Mentoring to Develop Future Project Leaders
Cultivate Conditions for Project Team Success and Growth

DAY 4

Body Language for Leaders

Understand How Body-language Symbols and Perceived by Others
Have Your Body Language Match Your Message for Positive Communication
Six Ways to Make a Positive First Impression
Establishing a Leadership Presence
Conveying Confidence in a Warm and Empathetic Manner

DAY 5

Putting It All in Practice

Make the Shift: Moving from Technical to Relational Skills
Nurturing Emotional Quality
Expand Your Perspective o Think in Terms of Team Results o Consider Client Relationships o Consider Business Perspective
Commit to People and Relationships
Understand the Value of Developing Future Leaders