• Manage stakeholders and teams
• Assess and apply leadership styles
• Improve communication
• Enhance influence and power bases
• Motivate team members
• Lead effective project teams
• Coach team members
• Practice change management
• Manage individual and team conflict
• Practice ethical project management
• Create a Leadership Development Plan

Case Study

This course features an evolving case study that puts you in charge of a large, international project. You'll manage a team of over 300 members working in four countries as you execute multiple tasks, including:

• Influencing key stakeholders
• Managing a dysfunctional project team
• Creating a motivation plan for a team with morale problems
• Introducing a major change to a project team
• Conducting a negotiation between a project manager and customer around scope creep
• Dealing with an ethical situation
  

• Associate project managers
  
• Project managers
  
• IT project managers
  
• Project coordinators
  
• Project analysts
  
• Project leaders
  
• Senior project managers
  
• Team leaders
  
• Product managers
  
• Program managers
  

Prerequisites:

• Project Management Fundamentals or 
  
• IT Project Management
  

Follow-on Courses:

• Quality for Project Managers
  
• Schedule and Cost Control
  

1. Introduction to Project Leadership

• What Is Project Management?
• Role of Project Manager as Organizational Leader
• Begin Developing Leadership Development Plan
• The Triple Constraint
• Leadership Skills
• Stakeholders

2. Leadership and Management

• Leadership vs. Management
• Leadership Orientation
• Management Styles
• Three Functions of Management
• Trait Theory
• Fiedler''s Contingency Model
• The Leaders Window

3. Interpersonal Communication

• The Communication Loop
• Filters and Barriers
• The Interpersonal Gap
• Active Listening

4. Influence

• Influences on a Project Manager
• Influence Styles
• Power and the Project Manager

5. Motivation

• Motivation Theories
• Motivating Under-Performing Team Members
• Rewards and Behavior
• Creating a Motivation Plan
• Vroom''s Expectancy Theory

6. Effective Teams

• Team Roles
• Stages of Project Team Development
  • Forming
  • Storming
  • Norming
  • Performing
  • Deforming
• Team Process and Functional Teams
• Coaching Team Members

7. Change Management

• What is Change Management?
• Being an Organizational Change Agent
• Influencers of Change
• Stages of Organizational Change
• Strategies to Manage Change

8. Conflict

• What is Conflict?
• Constructive Conflict vs. Destructive Conflict
• Conflict Reactions to Avoid
• Conflict Resolution Techniques
• Staying Calm in Conflict Situations
• What is Negotiation?
• Attitudes About Negotiation
• Negotiation Requirements
• Formal Project Negotiation Planning

9. Ethics and Leadership

• Ethics and Values
• Personal and Business Ethics
• Project Management Institute Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

Hands-On Exercises

• Leadership Self-Assessment
• Leadership Style Analysis
• Active Listening Role Play
• Deter Influence Style Preference
• Complete Power Base Profile
• Morale Problem Case Study
• Conflict Resolution
• Negotiation Role Play
• Conflict Resolution Case Study
• Create Leadership Development Plan