Project Leadership: Building High-Performance Teams

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Detailed Overview/Outline

You will learn how to

• Develop the leadership skills to build and sustain high-performing project teams
• Develop effective team performance through the Leadership Services Model
• Build a strong team identity through vision, purpose and commitment
• Foster positive and productive team communication and define ground rules
• Protect the team and convert conflicts into advantages that promote high performance
• Maximize your leadership abilities when you return to your organization

Course benefits
To ensure project success, managers must be project leaders who can identify and meet team needs in order to achieve project objectives.

In this course, you transition to a leader who can inspire a diverse team to work together and deliver customer success. At the end of your classroom experience you take away a project leadership best practices handbook and a personal development plan for use back at the office.

Who should attend
This course is valuable for team leaders and project managers. Previous project management experience at the level of Course 296, "Project Management: Skills for Success," or Course 340, "Project Management for Software Development," is helpful.

Throughout the course, you practice the roles of project leader and team member during an immersive case study. You develop a leadership style to build successful, high-performance project teams. Experiential and PC-based activities include:

• Applying the SSLM model and leadership best practices
• Distinguishing the stages of team development
• Developing team ground rules
• Maximizing team participation in delivering project outcomes
• Creating team direction and purpose
• Applying conflict style analysis with role playing to minimize project disruption
• Identifying what your project team needs to transition to high performance
• Building a personal project leadership action plan

Course content
INTRODUCTION

• Harnessing the power of collaboration to deliver successful projects
• Delivering quality leadership throughout the project life cycle
• Matching rewards to the person & the team

APPLYING THE LEADERSHIP SERVICES MODEL

• Shifting toward a service leadership approach
• Setting standards
• Building team identity
• Optimizing work
• Communicating clearly
• Developing productive relationships
• Protecting the team
• Redefining the role of the project leader
• Moving toward the team as customer
• Changing your priorities and perceptions
• Building your best practice leadership toolkit
• Creating a customized project leadership framework
• Generating a personal action plan

DEFINING THE TEAM DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK

• The startup actions of effective leadership
• Documenting objectives and constraints in a team charter
• Structuring team responsibility
• Fostering a team state of mind
• The power of common purpose
• What project leaders really manage
• Enhancing productive teamwork
• Building team collaboration skills
• Establishing team-owned ground rules

PLANNING FOR A TEAM-DRIVEN PROJECT

• Unleashing the power of participation
• Organizing effective work design
• Encouraging team responsibility
• Managing people proactively
• Implementing a participative approach to key planning tasks
• Kick-off meeting
• Project Vision
• Milestones
• Resourcing
• Complementing team expertise

IMPLEMENTING THROUGH PRODUCTIVE TEAM LEADERSHIP

• Behaving powerfully and productively
• Enhancing performance with emotional intelligence
• Matching interpersonal communication styles
• Nurturing a climate that promotes mutual trust
• Instilling a culture of respect
• Taking responsibility for change
• Optimizing communication
• Employing the right communication channels
• Balancing human and electronic interaction
• Managing for agreement and handling conflict
• Creating a context for risk taking and trust
• Minimizing misunderstandings and preempting conflicts

ENHANCING TEAM PERFORMANCE

• Diagnosing team status
• The Tuckman model: Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing
• Driving mutually accountable performance
• Integrating team personality differences
• Adapting to individual work styles
• Identifying communication pitfalls
• Creating an efficient environment
• Minimizing wasted time and effort
• Optimizing the working environment
• Insulating the team from outside pressures
• Managing power proactively
• Preempting potential problems
• Navigating through responsibilities and assignments
• Enabling productive dissent
• Providing positive feedback
• Balancing team alignment and difference

EVALUATING THE PROJECT & MOVING FORWARD

• Identifying key lessons learned
• Documenting benchmarks for improvement
• Matching your leadership strategies to your real world situation
• Setting performance milestones

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