Personal Effectiveness & Influencing Skills

Day One

The Nature of Project Environment and Organisational Politics

• Challenges in the Project Environment

• Politics: Project Management Fact-of-life

• Project Management: A Political Art

• Organizational Politics and the Project Lifecycle

• Organisational Culture and Its Impact on Project Management

• Project Politics and Self-Awareness

• The Role and Influence of Project Stakeholders

• Factors that Contribute to Organisational and Project Politics

• Political Behaviours for Project Team Members

• Guidelines for Developing Political Skills Necessary for Project Team Members

• The Need in a Project Environment for Result-based Leadership

Day Two

Project Leadership

• Traits of Effective Project Leadership

• Project Leadership Attitudes

• The Three Building Blocks of Project Leadership

• Project Leadership Styles

• How Personality and Self-Awareness Assists in Project Leadership

• The Concepts of IQ vs. EQ in Project Leadership

• Project Team Leadership: Communication and Coaching

• Behaviors that Develop Exceptional Project Leaders

• Project Leaders in Action

Day Three

The Use of Power and Influence in Project Leadership

• How Power and Leadership can Create Excellence in Project Leadership

• The Necessity of Power in Projects

• Sources of Power

• Project Leadership and Powerful vs. Powerless Talk

• Building a Sense of Personal Project Leadership Power

• Empowerment Models and Practices

• Influence Tactics for Project Leaders

• Key to Successful Influence in Project Leadership

• Attitudes and Behaviours of Project Stakeholders

• Developing Dimensions of Credibility in Projects

• Project Leadership Trust-Building

• Why The Communication / Trust /Agreement Relationship is Necessary for Project Leadership

• Project Leaders in Action

Day Four

Negotiation for Maximizing Project Results

• Why Projects have The Need to Negotiate

• The Project Leader as Negotiator

• Preparing for Project Related Negotiations

• Active Listening and Negotiation with Project Stakeholders

• Emotions and Conflict in Project Related Negotiations

• Principle-based Project Related Negotiations

• Common Negotiating Errors

• Negotiation Tactics Necessary for Project Leaders

• How Persuasion and Delegation can be used for Success in Projects

Day Five

Project Leadership Development

• Self-Awareness’ and Self-Discipline Skills for Project Leaders

• Project Leadership Learning and Mentoring

• Leadership Transitions in a Project Environment

• Devising a Political Strategy for Project Team Members

• Creating a Positive Project Culture

• Dealing with Project Stakeholders in a Multi Relationships Management

• Be the Whole Project Leader Package