Project Manager Leadership Training: Building and Leading High-Performance Teams
Course Outline
This Project Management Leadership course helps you transition into an effective project team leader who can inspire a diverse team to work together and deliver customer success. Learn how to build a high-performing team through an immersive class that covers project leadership best practices, models, videos, and assessments.
Project Manager Leadership Training: Building and Leading High-Performance Teams Benefits
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Project Manager Leadership Training will prepare you to:
- Manage internal and external influences that affect team performance.
- Increase productivity by challenging your processes and motivating your people.
- Develop team identity and empower others.
- Foster productive team communication and effectively manage conflict.
- Test your knowledge in the included end-of-course exam.
- Continue learning and face new challenges with after-course one-on-one instructor coaching.
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Project Manager Leadership Training Prerequisites
This course has been categorized as advanced to represent the other side of project management — project leadership. Therefore, before taking this course, you are not required to be a senior project/program manager.
Project Manager Leadership Course Outline
Module 1: Assessing Your Leadership Skills
Measuring yourself against the Leadership Services Model
- 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
Module 2: Building a Team Identity and Purpose
Fostering a team state of mind
- Considering the stages of 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
Module 3: 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
Overcoming communication barriers
- Clarifying roles, responsibilities, and boundaries
- Learning the language of leadership
- Turning conflict to your advantage
Module 4: 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
Module 5: 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
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
Module 6: Building a Project Leadership Best-Practices Toolkit
- Generating your personal leadership action plan
- Creating your customized project leadership framework
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