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Project Leadership Competencies
Course Description
As a Project Manager, you know that the results of your project are only as good as your ability to accomplish tasks through other people. Getting what you want from others and inspiring them to contribute their best take solid leadership skills. Trust-based relationships help create positive energy on projects and are essential to your leadership development experience and provide greater opportunities to serve and lead your project team.
This two-day workshop will help you build your MyProjectAdvisor® Leadership Competency Pyramid which will help you construct better project relationships, create positive energy, acquire more meaningful projects, develop team leaders and understand and use the power of servant leadership. You will master the techniques necessary to influence in a world of diversity, enhance your creativity, learn to empower and motivate others to achieve higher levels of performance and develop the courage to discuss difficult topics with sponsors, executives and team members.
This workshop will help project managers get more out their project management careers, their certifications and their professional lives.
Student Prerequisites:
This is an advanced course for students who have mastered the basics of the PMBOK®. Students should have completed the Project Management Essentials course or the equivalent and have experience managing project teams. This course includes a Platinum Rule® Behavioral Assessment. Students are requested to complete the assessment prior to attending the course.
This course is taught by PMP®s with knowledge of leadership theory and extensive project leadership experience.
The course includes:
- Presentations
- Discussions
- Case Studies
- Team exercises
- Skills Practice
- Networking
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Objectives
- Understand the importance of continuously building personal competencies
- Master techniques to acquire more project management knowledge, skills and experience
- Learn to build critical subject matter expertise quickly
- Master techniques to improve compatibility with team members, customers and sponsors
- Comprehend the importance of building trust on projects
- Master techniques to build project relationships based on trust
- Comprehend the key components of trust: credibility, reliability, intimacy, and low self-orientation
- Comprehend the role of consultative leadership on projects: engagement, listening, framing, visioning and commitment
- Master techniques needed to become a service-based project leader
- Understand how personal risk attitudes impact self-directed leadership and trust-based relationships
- Comprehend techniques to modify risk attitudes to increase confidence
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Outline
Building your Leadership Competencies
- What is competency?
- Types of project management competency
- Project Management competency models, PMI PMCDF Standard
- Importance of compatibility as a prerequisite for trust
- Tools for establishing compatibility on projects - FAST
- Importance of trust and its relationship to personal competency
- Overview of MyProjectAdvisor® Leadership competency pyramid
Building Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Project management knowledge, skills and experience
- Business context knowledge and expertise
- Acquiring subject matter expertise quickly
Trust-based Relationships
- Building trust-based relationships
- Characteristics/aspects/benefits of trust
- Project manager credibility
- Project manager reliability
- Emotional reliability and good meetings
- Project manager intimacy
- Project manager low self-orientation
- Listening
Consultative Leadership and the Importance of Advising
- Definitions, types of leadership
- Servant Leadership in project management
- Importance of advising
- How to advise properly
- Step-by-step advising
- Advising or persuading
How to Demonstrate Consultative Leadership
- Process of Consultative Leadership (5 steps)
- Engaging
- Framing – logical and emotional
- Visioning and creating
- Commitment
- Dealing with resistance
Managing Personal Risks
- Risk Attitudes and emotional literacy
- Environmental impact on risk attitudes
- Modifying risk attitudes
- Courage and self-confidence
- Fundamental choices and convictions
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Contact Hours
Students will receive:
14 PDUs
1.4 CEUs
Certificate of completion
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Who Should Attend
- Certified Project Managers
- Managers
- Project managers seeking certification
- PMO Managers
- Business analysts
- Project team members
- Organizational Change Agents
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Evaluation Comments
- "Jack is very effective. He did a wonderful job of encouraging discussion and pulling the group back to the subject at hand." - Participant
- "Jack's class was very valuable to me for where I am in my project management career. He inspired me to commit to improving my relationships and skills. This is a great opportunity for personal growth." - Participant
- "The MyProjectAdvisor Leadership Pyramid is a great visual tool for communicating how PMs can grow to be more effective leaders. The class clearly establishes personal accountability for your success with professional relationships." - Participant
- "The seminar was thought-provoking and raised my awareness of the personal and emotional dynamics of a team… not just the tasks." - Participant
- "The wisdom of this class is that the content is readily transferable beyond the world of project management. Anyone who works on a team should take this class." - J. Eskridge, participant
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