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Project Leadership: Building High-Performance Teams

 
Course: 346   Duration: 4 Days   PMI: 23   CPE: 23
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Build and sustain high-performing project teams through enhanced leadership skills
  • Develop a strong team identity and empower others to act through vision and purpose
  • Foster positive and productive team communication and effectively manage conflict
  • Increase productivity by challenging your processes and motivating your people
  • Manage both internal and external influences that affect your team's performance
  • Maximize your project leadership abilities when you return to your organization

Course Benefits

To ensure project success, project managers must be leaders who identify and meet team needs in order to achieve project objectives. In this course, you transition to a leader who can inspire a diverse team to work together and deliver customer success. At the end of your classroom experience, you take away a project leadership best practices handbook and a personal development plan for use back at the office.

Who Should Attend

Team leads, project/program managers and anyone responsible for achieving organizational goals through teamwork. Project management experience at the level of Course 296, "Project Management: Skills for Success," or Course 340, "Project Management for Software Development," is helpful.

RealityPlus™

Throughout the course, you practice the roles of project leader and team member during an immersive case study. You develop a leadership style to build successful high-performance project teams. Experiential and PC-based activities include:
  • Applying the LSM model and leadership best practices
  • Distinguishing the stages of team development
  • Developing team ground rules
  • Maximizing team participation in delivering project outcomes
  • Creating team direction and purpose
  • Applying conflict-style analysis with role playing to minimize project disruption
  • Identifying what your project team needs to transition to high performance
  • Building a personal project leadership action plan

Related Courses

 
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Training Dates

Feb 28 - Mar 2Alexandria, VA
Mar 27 - 30Rockville, MD
Apr 10 - 13Los Angeles 
Apr 17 - 20New York 
Apr 24 - 27Atlanta 
May 1 - 4Alexandria, VA
May 8 - 11Toronto 
May 15 - 18Reston, VA
May 22 - 25Chicago (Schaumburg)
May 29 - Jun 1Ottawa 
May 29 - Jun 1Rockville, MD
Jun 12 - 15New York 
Jun 19 - 22Philadelphia 
Jun 26 - 29Boston 
Jul 17 - 20Rockville, MD

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Project Leadership: Building High-Performance Teams

 
Course: 346   Duration: 4 Days   PMI: 23   CPE: 23
 
 
Course 346 Content
 

Introducing Leadership Theories and Approaches

  • Defining high-performing, winning teams
  • Recognizing the challenges and complexities of project management
  • Identifying the attitudes and actions of successful leaders
  • Embracing the role of situational vs. positional leadership
  • Redefining leadership with the Leadership Services Model

Assessing Your Leadership Skills

Measuring yourself against the Leadership Services Model

  • Exploring your motives and priorities
  • Appraising your values and attitude
  • Soliciting 360-degree feedback
  • Working with a mentor and personal board of directors
  • Examining your support network and sphere of influence

Managing your emotional intelligence

  • Developing your self-awareness and social awareness
  • Applying emotional intelligence to project management

Building a Team Identity and Purpose

Fostering a team state of mind

  • Considering the stages of personal and team development
  • Turning hard work into an enjoyable experience

Defining the future

  • Clarifying and communicating your vision and goals
  • Collaborating on project objectives
  • Empowering others to act

Developing Productive Teams

Crafting a healthy, winning culture

  • Agreeing on standards and ground rules
  • Encouraging feedback and nurturing the emotional intelligence of your team
  • Creating psychological safety through mutual respect and trust

Overcoming communication barriers

  • Clarifying roles, responsibilities and boundaries
  • Learning the language of leadership
  • Turning conflict to your advantage

Optimizing Efficiency through Motivated Teams

Thinking outside of the box

  • Challenging the process
  • Making decisions efficiently and effectively

Examining the art and science of motivation

  • Balancing personal needs with organizational goals
  • Adapting leadership to individual work styles
  • Building ownership through delegation
  • Managing virtual, remote and global teams
  • Recognizing the importance of physical space

Monitoring External and Internal Risks

Combating the dangers of outside influences

  • Assessing the organization's capacity for change
  • Balancing project constraints and avoiding burnout
  • Managing project subjectives and office politics
  • Dealing with daily distractions and disruptions

Guarding the team from itself

  • Managing underperformers
  • Recognizing the perils of Groupthink
  • Defending the team against your own shortcomings

Sustaining High Performance

Recognizing success

  • Celebrating success and failure
  • Building morale
  • Applying "Lessons Learned"

Reaching the next level

  • Assuming responsibility and holding each other accountable
  • Achieving autonomy and self-management
  • Setting smart challenges
  • Taking calculated risks

Building a Project Leadership Best-Practices Toolkit

  • Beginning with the end in mind: Defining your success
  • Mapping the leadership services to the project life cycle and applying it to your projects
  • Generating your personal leadership action plan
  • Creating your customized project leadership framework and defining next steps
 
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Project Leadership: Building High-Performance Teams Tuition

 
Course: 346   Duration: 4 Days   PMI: 23   CPE: 23
 
 
Course Tuition
$ 2,890Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,700Premium-Pass
$ 1,833Training Passport
$ 2,250Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,267Triple-Pack
$ 2,573Government Discount
$ 2,600Alumni Gold Discount

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

Tuition Savings Plans

Training Passport
  • 3 courses in 12 months
  • As little as $1,833 per course
  • Savings as much as 40%
  • Only $5,500
Premium Pass
  • 4 courses in 24 months
  • As little as $1,700 per course
  • Save as much as 45%
Training Vouchers
  • Save as much as $1,040 per course
  • Fully transferable
  • As low as $2,250 per course
Triple-Pack
  • 3 courses for anyone in your organization
  • As little as $2,266 per course
  • Only $6,799
Alumni Gold Discount Attend your first course and you'll receive a personalized Alumni Gold Discount card, entitling you to save as much as $320 on each course you take within the following 12 months. Take just one course each year and you'll be entitled to ongoing discounts...year after year!

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