Project Management & Leadership

This workshop is aimed at managers that lead teams and projects, and who already have an understanding of the workings of projects. The content assumes that delegates have experience of the project management process and that they are responsible for running at least one project.

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Outline

Leading projects comes with a diverse set of challenges, which require knowledge and skills over and above a solid understanding of project management tools. Leaders of projects often need to quickly adapt to change, make tough decisions, and manage many different stakeholders. This course focuses on the leadership aspects of project working, while still covering tools and techniques.

 

Objectives

By the end of the course, you will have:

  • Learnt how to tackle key challenges that project leaders can face
  • Practised project leadership skills and tools
  • Identified personal learning objectives and prepared a personal development plan

Course Content

Project Management Overview

  • Overview of project life cycles, portfolio management, and key success factors 
  • Understanding how these can be used for the management of change

Initiating a Project

  • Establishing a clear scope and objectives from the offset
  • Defining stakeholder needs
  • Creating a clear business case
  • Agreeing key roles and responsibilities for the team

People Management

  • Tools to build your project team, including an overview of team roles and team development theory
  • Understanding key project role and responsibilities
  • Methods of delegating to and motivating team members over whom you have no direct authority

Creating Expectations

  • Establishing a project communication plan to communicate effectively at key stages with all stakeholders and gain commitment
  • Overview of how to influence for the benefit of the project and the importance of understanding influencing styles

Creating a Project Plan

  • Understanding the value of a plan and effectively leading activities
  • Overview of project definitions, organisational breakdown structures, network and critical path analysis, Gantt charts, milestone chart, risk management, and ownership

Resourcing the Plan

  • Ensuring that your plan is adequately resourced to expectations and for delivery deadline
  • Utilising resources, resource histograms, and resource levelling

Monitoring, Controlling and Closure

  • Simple monitoring tools and techniques for managing changes to the project during its implementation 
  • Learning how to redefine goals
  • The importance of closing a project, celebrating successes, recording and communicating lessons learnt, and documenting process and outcomes

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