NEW! Project Leadership: How to Manage Matrixed and Remote Project Teams with Bob Maiale
What You Will Learn
Upon completion of this training, learners will be able to:
- Describe their leadership styles and those of their team.
- Demonstrate leadership skills to resolve conflicts and maintain a motivated project environment.
- Practice trust building within the team and facilitate a results-driven project environment.
Description
In today’s cross-functional, high-speed, multilocation and high-demand project environments, the ability to be successful has never been more difficult (and failure more public!). Project Leadership: How to Manage Matrixed and Remote Project Teams training helps managers of all backgrounds become true leaders.
Many of us who lead projects earned the responsibility by being high performers in previous projects. Yet, we all know somebody who was a great technician or great worker but did not make the best project manager/leader. Those individuals, however, are not always at fault. They may never have been trained in the core competencies of project management or given the tools needed to lead a project and its staff.
Beyond the usual leadership issues, in projects, we need to deal with the additional stresses of team members who do not report to the project manager, team members who come from different departments, various divisions or locations (both near and far), team members with priorities that do not align with those of the project, and many more. Leading a matrix or cross-functional task force is much different than leading a fixed team. The practical tools, techniques and concepts provided here are reinforced and practiced with real-world project situations, exercises and checklists. A major goal of this workshop is to prepare participants to readily apply key leadership and management concepts in their projects.
AGENDA
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- Why Project Leadership?
- What is a project?
“NAGging”!
- What is a project?
- Management and Leadership
- Some food for thought
- Tales of two toolkits
- Speaking from experience
- The Management Skills Pyramid
- Attributes of a Leader
- Born or made?
- Good leaders …
- The servant leader
- Effective project team leaders
- The Blake and Mouton Managerial Grid
- The road to great leadership
- Leading Project Teams
- What is a team, anyway?
- Project team structures
- The Tuckman model
- Project team-building
- Working together
- Working together while working apart
- Motivating the Project Team
- Shifting the paradigm
- Know your team
- Herzberg’s theory of motivation
- McGregor’s theory of X and Y
- Why Project Leadership?
PDU Allocation Table
Ways of Working | Power Skills | Business Acumen | Total | |
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CAPM® / PMI-CP™ / PMP® / PgMP® | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7.00 |
PMI-ACP® / Agile* | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7.00 |
PMI-SP® | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7.00 |
PMI-RMP® | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7.00 |
PfMP® | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7.00 |
PMI-PBA® | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7.00 |
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Instructor(s)

Bob Maiale PMP, PMI-CP
Bob Maiale, PMP, PMI-CP, is the former Product Owner for the construction curriculum at PMI. He spent 5 years with PMI before retiring in 2024. Prior to PMI, Bob spent decades in the private sector as a trainer and practitioner. As a trainer, he delivered project management seminars to global audiences while working for an Authorized Training Partner. His clients included Citibank, Chase, Avon, Prudential, MetLife, IPG, Kraft Foods, Staples, Tiffany & Co. and the Kennedy Space Center.
He was also a PM practitioner having managed projects and built and ran PMOs for Citrix, Verizon Wireless, AECOM, Canon USA and Platform Specialty Products. His roots are in IT where he began his career in NYNEX, one of the “baby Bells” that was created with the breakup and divestiture of the Bell System.
Bob has spoken and presented at many PMI chapters and conferences over the years and is the former Vice President of Education for the South Florida PMI Chapter and is a former member of the New Jersey and Long Island Chapters.