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Course details
Leading Projects and Leading People Course:
This practical course combines essential Project Management fundamentals with key principles of people leadership. It focuses on analyzing engagement performance through effective planning and control while employing techniques to achieve results collaboratively. Participants will explore how proper collaboration enhances success and fosters accountability and trust within teams.
Course Flow and Objectives:
The course emphasizes a process-oriented and analytical approach to initiating, estimating, and controlling projects. It highlights the importance of collaboration and clear communication, even among diverse teams. Participants will develop critical skills for managing relationships and understand how to leverage accountability and trust for optimal project outcomes.
Key Learning Outcomes:
- Identify the characteristics of a successful project.
- Understand and execute the major aspects of project initiation, control, and close-out.
- Adapt leadership and communication styles to effectively motivate team members.
- Implement effective techniques for escalation, delegation, and managing expectations.
Course Syllabus:
Day 1 – Leading Projects:
Getting Started:
- Welcome and Introductions
- Course structure and objectives
- Discussion on current project effectiveness, issues, and challenges
Foundation Concepts:
- Fundamental Project Management concepts
- Understanding Process Groups and Project Life Cycles
- Exploration of Knowledge Areas and competing demands
- Introduction to Project Planning
- Mix & Match Exercise: Identify your project lifecycle and key deliverables.
Scope Management:
- Defining and prioritizing project requirements
- Small Group Exercise: Create a scope document linking requirements.
- Establishing change control and escalation processes
- Managing stakeholder expectations and value realization
- Anticipating needs and responding to scope change requests
- Small Group Exercise: Stakeholder assessment and prioritization.
Deliverables Definition, Scheduling, and Tracking:
- Best practices in defining deliverables using Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
- Exercise: Build an Engagement WBS and map deliverables to roles and responsibilities.
- Scheduling and monitoring
Action Planning:
- Discussion on project effectiveness, best practices, and improvement opportunities.
Day 2 – Leading People:
Effective Leaders:
- Exercise: Tallest Tower
- Team roles, responsibilities, and interdependencies
- Exercise: Characteristics of effective leaders and their impact.
Effective Teams:
- Compare dysfunctional versus high-performing team characteristics.
- Discussion on creating a positive team culture.
- Understanding teamwork, trust, and the power of diversity.
Core Communication Skills:
- Exercise: Communication preferences
- Exploring the sender/receiver communication model.
- Essential communication skills and handling difficult conversations.
- Exercise: Practicing effective communication techniques.
Influencing Others:
- Exercise: Techniques for building rapport.
- Understanding sensitivity to others and networking strategies.
- Exercise: The power of recognition.
Effectively Delegating and Escalating:
- Different approaches to delegation and the Expectancy Theory.
- Techniques for escalating issues effectively.
- Exercise: Role-playing delegation and escalation scenarios.
Recap & Closing:
- Exercise: Workshop Force Field Analysis
- Reflection: Personal Force Field Analysis for continued growth.
Eligibility / Requirements
High school diploma or global equivalent1,500 hours of work on a project team OR 23 contact hours of formal project management education
Job roles this course is suitable for:
Project CoordinatorProject ManagerSenior Project Manager...About International Institute for Learning, Inc
About International Institute for Learning, Inc. (IIL)
With a wholly-owned network of operating companies all over the world and clients in more than 150 countries, IIL is a global leader in training and certification, coaching and mentoring, consulting and customized course development. Our core competencies include: Project, Program and Portfolio Management; Business Analysis; Lean Six Sigma and Process Excellence; Agile; ITIL®; Leadership and Interpersonal Skills.
Using our proprietary Many Methods of Learning™, IIL delivers innovative, effective and consistent training solutions through a variety of learning approaches: Virtual, Traditional Classroom, On-Demand, Mobile, Video and Simulation. As a PMI® Global Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.); a member of PMI’s Global Executive Council; an APMG Accredited Training Organization (ATO) for PRINCE2®, ITIL®, and others; a Microsoft Partner (with a Microsoft Gold Project and Portfolio Management competency); and an IIBA® Endorsed Education Provider (EEP™), IIL is the training solution partner of choice for many top global companies.
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