Leadership, Relationship, and Change

Managing projects is all about managing change – for your customers, your community, your organization, and your delivery partners.

This 2-day course goes beyond the basics, exploring what it takes for key project team players – project managers, business analysts, sponsors and team leads – to step up to the leadership and change challenges inherent in the most complex and demanding projects.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will gain practical skills to:

• Identify, explore and apply advanced project and change management theory and skills.
• Survey selected project manager, team, change management, leadership and relationship management models.
• Recognize human issues in project management and apply appropriate models.
• Understand what sets the high powered project team apart and how they must use leadership and change management approaches to create and sustain a high powered project team.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

The Leadership, Relationship, and Change course is suitable for individuals who are:

• Project Managers
• Business Analysts
• Project Sponsors
• Technical team leaders
• Who want to increase the chance of project success, by enhancing their people skills, and by understanding the dynamics of introducing change into an organization.

PREREQUISITE

• 6-day The Comprehensive Project Management Seminar (or its equivalent), or
• 4-day The Comprehensive Business Analysis Seminar Part 2 (or its equivalent)

MATERIALS

You will receive a course binder containing copies of presentation slides, case studies, exercises and suggested solutions.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Project Management Capability and High Powered Teams

• The Importance of Leadership to Project Success
• Matching Project Team Strength to Project Complexity
• Getting a Handle on High Powered Teams

Leading and Motivating

• Authority, Power and Influence
• Managing versus Leading
• The Superior Project Manager

All about Teams

• A Team Model
• Factors Influencing Team Behaviour
• The Team’s Environment
• Human Issues: Norms, Emotions, Emotional Intelligence

Coping with Change

• Defining Organizational “Change”
• Effective Change Management – a Model
• Putting Change Management into Practice