Detailed Course Outline
Introducing Leadership Theories and Approaches
- Defining high-performing, winning teams
- Recognising the complexities of project management
- Identifying the actions of successful leaders
- Embracing situational vs. positional leadership
- Redefining leadership with the Leadership Services Model
Assessing Your Leadership Skills
Measuring yourself against the Leadership Services Model
- Exploring your motives and priorities
- Appraising your values and attitude
- Soliciting 360-degree feedback
- Working with a mentorand personal board of directors
- Examining your support network and sphere of influence
Managing your emotional intelligence
- Developing your self-awareness and social awareness
- Applying emotional intelligence to project management
Building a Team Identity and Purpose
Fostering a team state of mind
- Considering the stages of development
- Turning hard work into an enjoyable experience
Defining the future
- Clarifying and communicating your vision and goals
- Collaborating on project objectives
- Empowering others to act
Developing Productive Teams
Crafting a healthy, winning culture
- Agreeing on standards and ground rules
- Encouraging feedback and nurturing the emotional intelligence of your team
- Creating psychological safety through mutual respect
Overcoming communication barriers
- Clarifying roles, responsibilities and boundaries
- Learning the language of leadership
- Turning conflict to youradvantage
Optimising Efficiency through Motivated Teams
Thinking outside of the box
- Challenging the process
- Making decisions efficiently and effectively
Examining the art and science of motivation
- Balancing personal needs with organisational goals
- Adapting leadership to individual work styles
- Building ownership through delegation
- Managing virtual, remote and global teams
- Recognising the importance of physical space
Monitoring External and Internal Risks
Combating the dangers of outside influences
- Assessing the organisation's capacity for change
- Balancing project constraints and avoiding burnout
- Managing project subjectives and office politics
- Dealing with daily distractions and disruptions
Guarding the team from itself
- Managing underperformers
- Recognising the perils of Groupthink
- Defending the team against your own shortcomings
Sustaining High Performance
Recognising success
- Celebrating success and failure
- Building morale
- Applying "Lessons Learned"
Reaching the next level
- Assuming responsibility and holding each otheraccountable
- Achieving autonomy and self-management
- Setting smart challenges
- Taking calculated risks
Building a Project Leadership Best-Practices Toolkit
- Beginning with the end in mind: defining your success
- Mapping the leadership services to the project life cycle
- Generating your personal leadership action plan
- Creating your customised project leadership framework