Project Leadership and Team Building

This three-day program will help you develop the personal and professional skills needed to lead your project team. You will learn how to create a shared vision and how to keep your team aligned with that vision. The program covers key general management skills such as listening with empathy, delivering feedback, and delegating work. Other topics include how to develop agreement on roles and responsibilities, when to emphasize task behaviors over relationship behaviors, how to build a team that sees itself as a team, and dealing with a difficult team member. Approximately 70% of class time is devoted to casework and experiential learning. Among other activities, you will complete a leadership skills inventory and develop a personal action plan for use when you return to work. Upon completion, you will be able to: Create a vision for your project Define team roles Delegate or escalate decisions Make better decisions Give feedback on performance Surface and deal with conflict Conduct effective team meetings Achieve consensus on key decisions

Day 1 Introduction Characteristics of a leader Leadership vs. management Leadership stereotypes Visioneering Developing a vision Communicating the vision Maintaining the vision Basic Leadership Skills Mentoring and motivating Leading by example Providing feedback Day 2 More Leadership Skills Challenging the status quo Taking appropriate risks Escalation and delegation Teambuilding Needs Attributes of a high performance team Assessing strengths and weaknesses Stages of team development Identifying team roles Task and relationship behaviors Day 3 Teambuilding Skills Problem solving approaches Fast-cycle decision making Shared leadership Getting the most out of meetings Nine approaches to managing conflict The importance of ground rules Dealing with Conflict Sources of conflict Communications barriers Avoidance through trust

After this program, you'll say "I can lead my project team!"

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