Project Leadership in Action (PM-020) Training Course

Project Leadership in Action

Course Introduction Are you looking to cultivate a personal leadership style that enhances your effectiveness in every action and decision while leading your projects?…

5 daysClassroom

14Upcoming dates

8Cities

£2,850Fees from

Course overview

Course Introduction

Are you looking to cultivate a personal leadership style that enhances your effectiveness in every action and decision while leading your projects?

This Project Leadership in Action training course is designed for you. It focuses on refining your ability to leverage personal skills to influence and persuade others, ensuring timely completion of work. The Project Leadership in Action training course will help you master negotiation techniques in customer and supplier relationships, even with individuals over whom you might not have direct control.

You will explore key topics such as project politics, leadership skills, influencing strategies, negotiation tactics, and conflict resolution techniques, all tailored to enhance your project management capabilities.

Training Objectives

By the end of this training course, you will be able to:

Appraise your project leadership skills
Apply a range of concepts to utilize power and to influence others
Manage corporate politics at the project level as well as the senior management level
Apply principles, guidelines and common methods of negotiation on projects
Apply leadership techniques to enhance the performance of project teams

Who should Attend?

This training course will be of great value to anyone managing or involved in projects regardless of their professional background or industry but will greatly benefit:

Project managers
Team leaders
Workstream leaders
Project sponsors / Owners

Course outline

1Day One: The Project Environment and Organisational Politics

The nature and challenges of the project environment
Organisational politics and its impact on projects
How to promote a project-focused culture
Identifying and analyzing project stakeholders
The Need in a project environment for result-based leadership

2Day Two: Project Leadership

Characteristics of an effective project leader
Project leadership styles and style flexibility
Applying leadership styles to individual performance management
Applying leadership styles to team development
Key project leadership skills: Communication and coaching

3Day Three: The Use of Power and Influence in Project Leadership

How power and influence can create excellence in project leadership
Identifying and categorizing stakeholders in terms of attitude and power / influence
Sources of power for the project manager
Applying power and influence to project teams
Delegation and empowerment

4Day Five: Project Leadership Development