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Self-Direct Leadership Development, Becoming a Service-based Project Leader

• Course Description
• Objective
• Outline
• Contact Hours
• Who Should Attend
• Evaluation Comments

Course Description

Servant leadership is defined as the inherent desire to serve alongside a conscious decision to be a leader. 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. Maximizing project leadership results requires the ability to grow others into more capable, more productive team members while transforming yourself into a service-based project leader using self-directed leadership.

This 3-day workshop will teach students the concepts behind the MyProjectAdvisor® Leadership Competency Pyramid that allows managers to grow beyond the PMP®. It also will define the steps and techniques used for self-directed leadership development. Students will create their own service-based leadership plans and define their active leadership experiences so that they can initiate transforming projects.

Students will learn to build trust, create positive energy, acquire more meaningful projects, develop team leaders and understand and use the power of servant leadership. They will master the techniques necessary to influence in a world of diversity, enhance their 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 course will help project managers get more out their project management careers, their certifications and their professional lives. This course is taught by Jack Ferraro, PMP, and author of The Service-based Project Leader, to be published in 2007.

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.

The course includes:

• Presentations
• Discussions
• Case Studies
• Team exercises
• Skills Practice
• Networking

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Objectives

The class attendees will be able to:

• Understand the importance of continuously building leadership competencies.
• 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
• Understand the self-directed leadership concepts
• Comprehend the importance of self-directed leadership development for project managers
• Understand the definition and role of a service-based project leader
• Comprehend the role of trust-based relationships in self-directed leadership development
• Understand how personal risk attitudes impact self-directed leadership and trust-based relationships
• Build Active Leadership Experiences for practicing self-directed leadership experience in their current job
• Comprehend techniques to modify risk attitudes to increase self-directed leadership development
• Comprehend active leadership experiences’ role in self-directed leadership development
• Build a personal plan for using active leadership experiences in self-directed leadership development.

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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 intimac
• Project manager low self-orientation
• Listening

Leadership theory

• Definitions, types of leadership
• Behavioralists
• Trait Theory
• Contingency Theory
• Situational Leadership
• Transformational Leadership
• Servant Leadership
• The Need for Project leadership

Consultative Leadership and the Importance of Advising

• Consultative leadership in the project environment
• Importance of advising
• How to advise properly, language and attitude
• Step-by-step advising
• Advising or persuading

Becoming a Service-based Project Leader

• Definition of service
• Service and the project manager
• Characteristics of the service-based project leader
• Being a service-based project leader using Consultative Leadership (5 steps)
• Engaging
• Listening
• Framing – logical and emotional
• Visioning and creating
• Commitment

Managing Personal Risks

• Risk attitudes and emotional literacy
• Environmental impact on risk attitudes
• Modifying risk attitudes
• Courage and self-confidence
• Fundamental choices and convictions

Self-Directed Leadership Process

• Overview of the process of self-directed leadership
• Establishing Direction and Commitment
• Assessing and Acquiring leadership behaviors
• Practicing using Active Leadership Experiences
• Service
• Tools to use in your self-directed leadership process
• Importance of communities of practice

Developing your plan – and measuring it!

• Developing your personal leadership plan
• Self-assessments
• PM promoter
• Feedback process
• Building your leadership plan

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Contact Hours

Students will receive:
23 PDUs
2.3 CEUs
Certificate of completion

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Who Should Attend

• Managers
• Team members
• Certified Project Managers
• Project managers seeking certification
• PMO Managers
• Business analysts
• Project team members
• Organizational Change Agents

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Evaluation Comments

• "Enjoyed it and learned a lot!" - Participant
• "Excellent content, well-presented and exercises very practical, good application, challenging!" - Participant
• "Great class. Learned lots and gained great insight on myself." - Participant
• "Great course! Gets you back on the right track of project management." -Participant
• "Great teacher! Great Material! I was not expecting Jack to tie our PM role back to our core values. This gives us durable energy." - Participant
• "It was not what I expected but a good learning opportunity.” - Participant
• "Jack brought something that most of these courses don't: how to bridge the gap between current and ideal state? Answer: practice." - Participant

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