Course Description

Successful project leaders integrate the science and art of project management. For more experienced Project Team Leaders who manage complex technical projects and lead cross-functional teams of internal staff, external contractors, and vendors and “leading people is the most difficult part of the job”, Project Team Leadership is for them!

An advanced workshop integrating classic project management tools with “soft skills” for better people/team leadership and business skills to:

• Increase productivity

• Reduce time to market

• Control costs

• Complete more complex projects faster and more profitably

• Meet customer quality expectations and sponsor’ schedule with fewer risks, resources and morale problems

Learning Objectives:

• Hard Skills and Tools

  • Integrate Project Management with Project People / Team Leadership

  • Increase project team productivity and quality

  • Analyze human resources assigned; skills, costs

  • Manage scope and specifications

  • Complete Skills & Responsibility Matrix

  • Select and manage vendors, sub-contractors

  • Procure equipment on a timely basis

  • Run a project as a business for profitability

  • Conduct Risk Analysis abatement & mitigation

  • Manage changes and configuration

  • Acquire new resources; add to staff

  • Prepare and present scorecard results

• Soft Skills and Tools

  • Motivate and improve morale: Morale Model

  • Develop Skills Matrix

  • Build a team of individuals

  • Communicate with team, customers

  • Build Skills: train & coach team personnel

  • Learn Benefits of Training vs. Coaching

  • Understand Emotional Intelligence: Best Boss vs Worst Boss

  • Grasp “why” people don’t perform to their abilities

  • Craft messages to improve performance without adverse morale impacts

  • Communicate with 4 generations in today’s workforce

  • Coach teammates to improve performance

  • Apply soft and hard skills to next real project team