Project Manager Training Training | Durivage Management Solutions

Five Day Workshop

How You Will Benefit

Through a process of self assessment related to each of the core competencies, identify your style, your transferable skills, and where to focus to get even better
By practicing the soft skills on project typical situations, you will be able to solidify your strengths and have a more complete range of options to deal with situations
Based on your own skill set and particular situation, you will develop a plan of action for growing the skill even more once back at work

You Will Learn

To identify the basic personality styles and the implications for working style, communication preferences, working in teams, delegating, and motivation
The right media for your message based on the audience and impact you are targeting
Ways to strengthen your preferred leadership style, diverse methods for leading in difficult situations, and what to do when people do not do what they are supposed to
The underpinnings to moving things forward in an organization and how to grow your authority, power, and influence as well as some of the associated skills like group problem solving, consensus building, negotiation, networking and conflict management
To manage the resistance that is the natural reaction to the changes that our projects bring
The essence of effective delegation
To use the tools essential for overseeing projects as a Project Manager and from the Sponsor’s perspective
Principles for turning a group into a team and keeping each of the members motivated and moving forward in a timely fashion on the project objectives
How to be an effective Project Manager in these unique times of intense change, where for the first time ever they are 4 generations in the workforce who are expected to work in multi-cultural and virtual teams

Course Outline

Change - the nature of projects is to bring change. Change management is the controlled implementation of desired modifications.

Establish the parameters for implementing successful project change
Explore individual and team responses to change
Identify the factors that make us uncomfortable with change
Develop a change management strategy for your project is about making it likely that the people whose support you need will follow the direction and pace you set.

Leadership - Review leadership for today’s work environment with its 4 different generation to manage

Measure your leadership against the 6 leadership styles
Address how leadership styles can be functional in certain situations and the same style can be dysfunctional in others
Explore how to build certain dimensions of your leadership
Identify how to increase the positive reaction of our team to our leadership
Design a project leadership strategy
Consider the place of vision in projects

Producing Results Without Authority- how things get done where we work is typically based on formal and inform power structures and knowing how to influence the people and the structures. Identify the elements that would traditionally be known as the political power structure: Authority, Power and Influence

· Review the impact of an imbalance in any one of these elements and how to rectify it when possible

· Address how to increase one’s own power base in order to be more effective

· Get a primer on networking

· Learn to deal constructively with roadblocks and people who might oppose the plan

Team Building - Having individuals reporting to you should be preceded by reflection as to whether a group or team is required and setting the environment for working effectively.

Explore why team building is necessary and beneficial
Review the stages of team development and the barriers to high performance
Explore how to get a team from one level of development to the next
Learn to put into place the foundations for a healthy team
Diagnose the health of your team and plan for your own team’s development
Explore the techniques used to support remote and virtual teams
Design a strategy for engaging remote workers
Discuss the challenges of overseeing someone who is not physically present
Overview personality types
Learn your personal strengths and preferences
Discover areas for development
Understand the team members', Boss’, and peers’ personal styles
Apply types thinking to the workplace communication, delegation, motivation and more

Delegation - we transfer authority and responsibility for the completion of specific activities each time we delegate yet we remaining accountable for the outcome. Here we explore how delegation is best done while avoiding abdication and micromanagement.

Evaluate your delegation habits and the impact they have on our work and our team’s results
Explore delegation that is set up with the greatest chance of success
Turn delegation into action and results through clear objectives, work plans and tracking
Develop strategies for preventing, circumventing and addressing delegation pitfalls
Experiment with delegation

Performance Management - the process of managing the gap between the goals we and our team must reach and actual results along the way.

Set a climate that is likely to produce performance
Understand why people don’t do what they are supposed to
Explore how your leadership and management styles might contribute to poor performance
Analyze some key performance problems and identify their solutions

Motivation - activates behaviour and orients it.

Explore three theories of motivation
Evaluate the key motivators of your project team members
Itemize the rewards and recognition that we can use with our own team
Deal with typical demotivators

Decision Making & Problem Solving - the right decision is not always an easy decision. Following the prescribed steps can help the quality of our decisions and improve the likelihood that they will get implemented.

Explore the parameters for making a decision alone or with your team
Review how to create and maintain consensus
Address how to introduce out of the box thinking
Avoid roadblocks and typical Problem Solving mistakes

Negotiation - coming to an agreement where we are pleased with the results, and so are the other parties, helps to ensure that the working relationship stays productive. How to make that happen is addressed here.

Identify the distinctions and advantages of Principled versus Position negotiations
Overcome the reluctance to negotiate
Learn to prepare for a negotiation
Know how and when to make concessions
Experiment with diffusing emotional situation during negotiating

Conflict - when the heat of project execution is on, conflicts are likely.

Review the sources of conflict
Experiment with converting the negative conflict to positive
Identify your comfort with conflict
Diversify your conflict resolution options
Discuss dealing with extreme personality types
Address the use of conflict

Professional Recognition

35 Professional Development Units (PDU) recognized by PMI - Project Management Institute. The PDUs can be used towards gaining and/or maintaining the designations of PMP® (Project Management Professional), CAPM® (Certified Associate Project Manager), or PgPM® (Program Management Professional).

Who Should Attend

If you are responsible for producing results through others who do not necessarily report to your, this program is for you.

What You Will Receive

A soundly researched, unabridged workbook including: Helpful recaps, Worksheets, Templates, Self-assessments, and a Personal Development Plan.
35 Professional Development Units recognized by the Project Management Institute
Certificate of attendance

Training Options and Costs

Enrolment fee of $1500 per participant Click here to register for this program.
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