In today’s complex business environment, project success depends upon a combination of the science and art of project management. In this 2-day seminar, project managers learn how to inject Project TLC for healthy projects. Project TLC focuses on three primary components: Teambuilding, Leadership, and Communications.
Teambuilding: Focusing on simple techniques to enhance team behavior and group dynamics, you will learn easy-to-adopt practices to improve team members’ awareness and accountability resulting in improved decisions, efficiency and business results.
Leadership: Participants will learn how to LEAD, using four simple strategies: Listen, Encourage, Act and Delegate. This portion of the program encourages networking and collaboration, and finds ways to strengthen leadership attributes among participants.
Communication: Project success goes beyond hitting deadlines and budgets. Who, How and What you communicate while managing projects is likely to define your ability to get it done. Learn how to improve communications across your stakeholders for continued project success.
A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) areas covered:
Project Human Resource Management and Project Communication Management.
Who should attend?
This seminar is for project/program managers and anyone who aspires to become a successful project leader.
How will I benefit?
Develop and enhance the contributions you make to your organization by being able to:
- Understand the value of teamwork and the link to business outcomes
- Recognize how the “right” set of behaviors can support productive teamwork
- Identify cultural attributes in the business environment and understand how those attributes contribute to, or conflict with, team performance
- Learn how to diagnose common team ailments and introduce easy methods to improve team interaction and reduce conflict among team members
- Discuss different leadership attributes and recognize why there is not a one-size-fits-all way to lead
- Adopt leadership competencies and apply them to your own leadership style
- Understand different communication methods, and how those differences meet different audience needs
What will my seminar experience cover?
· Link Between Team Performance and Team Outcomes
o The Good: Group Discussion, “The Power of Teamwork” video
o The Bad: Group Discussion, “Team Collaboration” video
o The Ugly: Group Discussion: “Teams in Conflict” video
o Team Exercise, “Magnomen”, summary
· Business Cultures
o Open
o Closed
o Random
o Synchronous
· Expected Behaviors
· Toolkit: Group and Individual exercises to support application of each behavior
o Do’s & Don’ts
o Discussion Guide for Teams
o Team Assessment Survey
o Rules of Engagement
o Virtual Teams
o 24-Hour Rule
o RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Decisions)
o Checklist for Creating Realistic Agreements
o Intent-Behavior-Impact
o Meeting Management
§ Meeting Agenda
§ Meeting Minutes
§ Quick Check Worksheet
o Different Types of Leadership, Why it’s Important: Discussion
o Lead ID exercise and discussion
o LEAD the Way
§ Listen: “Feed Forward” exercise
§ Encourage: Situational Differences/role playing
§ Act: “Putting on the Style” exercise and discussion
§ Delegate: “Effective Delegation” exercise and discussion
o Communication
§ “The Power of Communication” video and discussion
§ Gossip: An Introduction to Communication exercise and discussion
§ Application of learning to a project experience
§ Different communication required for different audiences exercise, discussion
§ “Good/Bad Communications” video
What instructional materials will be used?
Lecture, Facilitated Group Discussion, Individual Exercises, Group Exercises.
