Leadership Skills for Project Managers

Course Overview

This leadership course provides the knowledge and skills to lead project teams and facilitate bringing projects within scope, cost and time.

Duration: 1 day
Delivery Mode:Instructor Led, Classroom Based
Cost: $935 AUD inc GST
Delivery Location: Australia Wide

Learning-Objectives

At the end of this course, students will be have skills covering the following areas of Project Management:

• Leadership
• Teams
• Goal setting
• Leading and managing projects

Pre-requisites

Need to read and write English.
No formal pre-requisites.

Should I Study This Course?

This course is suitable for

• Project Managers who wish to acquire leadership skills
• Those who are expecting to move into positions leading project teams

Course Agenda

This course covers the following:

Leadership

• What?
•  Styles
•  Characteristics
• Leadership and management
• Own leadership style (based on questionnaire)
• Why do groups need effective leadership
• Leadership and delegation
• Techniques to make delegation effective

Teams

• Characteristics of a team
• Roles of teams
• Team membership
• Team development; common purpose, individual differences
• Conflict in the team
• Communication in/with the team
• Evaluating team performance
• Developing performance indicators
• Measuring team/individual performance
• Performance issues
• Providing constructive feedback
• Improving performance; plan a action plan, put it into action, evaluate

Goal setting

• Individual and team goals
• Goal setting and planning
• Linking goals to organisational/business planning
• Action plans
• Tools and techniques with goal setting and planning

Leading and managing projects

• Planning for projects
• Strategic Planning – critical issues for business
• Project Governance
• Align Business and Strategy
• Program/Portfolio/Project Management