Leadership Skills
for Achieving Project Success Through Motivation and Inspiration
Leadership and project management are two distinctly different yet complementary skills. Both are necessary for today's changing and complex business environment. While project management skills ensure that processes—such as planning, scheduling, estimating, budgeting and staffing—are working effectively, leadership skills provide the driving force that creates project success.
Leaders have a project vision and know how to align people with their goals. They provide the structure, as well as motivation, to tune team performance and inspire their team to achieve project objectives. A project manager who enables teams to work together can deliver results faster, better and more cost effectively.
Influencing others, harnessing the social and emotional potential of your team, and inspiring a diverse team to work together are all critical competencies for today's project managers.
The following courses will help you develop the leadership abilities needed for achieving project success.
Project Leadership: Building High-Performance Teams
Course 346 • 4 Days
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
► Get more details and a current schedule Leadership Skills: Building Success through Teamwork
Course 222 • 3 Days
You Will Learn How To:
- Develop your teams to maximize their strengths and enhance productivity
- Optimize organization and work design for success in service delivery teams
- Motivate your team with effective performance measurement
- Integrate your leadership responsibilities, competencies and behaviors into your management role
- Leverage the complementary skills and styles of your team
- Eliminate barriers and chokepoints that block teamwork
► Get more details and a current schedule Emotional Intelligence: Achieving Leadership Success
Course 3411 • 3 Days
You Will Learn How To:
- Leverage Emotional Intelligence (EI) to improve your effectiveness as a leader
- Identify the core competencies of Emotional Intelligence
- Gain an honest and accurate awareness of your EI strengths and weaknesses
- Achieve greater personal effectiveness through self-management tools and techniques
- Harness the social and emotional potential of your team to improve performance
- Integrate and apply EI to develop and transform your personal and professional potential
► Get more details and a current schedule Influence Skills: Getting Results without Direct Authority
Course 294 • 4 Days
You Will Learn How To:
- Apply influence strategies to gain commitment from others and foster collaboration
- Define desired outcomes for win-win results
- Dynamically adjust your approach to others to gain buy-in
- Achieve goals by enhancing trust and cooperation
- Deal effectively with challenging behaviors to overcome resistance and inertia in others
- Use knowledge and competence rather than position and status to influence others
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