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Project Leadership: Building High-Performance Teams

 
Course: 346   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Develop the leadership skills to build and sustain high-performing project teams
  • Develop effective team performance through the Leadership Services Model (LSM)
  • Build a strong team identity through vision, purpose and commitment
  • Foster positive and productive team communication and define ground rules
  • Protect the team and convert conflicts into advantages that promote high performance
  • Maximize your leadership abilities when you return to your organization

Course Benefits

To ensure project success, project managers must be leaders who identify and meet team needs in order to achieve project objectives. In this course, you transition to a leader who can inspire a diverse team to work together and deliver customer success. At the end of your classroom experience, you take away a project leadership best practices handbook and a personal development plan for use back at the office.

Who Should Attend

Leaders who want to build successful teams. Project management experience at the level of Course 296, "Project Management: Skills for Success," or Course 340, "Project Management for Software Development," is helpful.

Course Workshop

Throughout the course, you practice the roles of project leader and team member during an immersive case study. You develop a leadership style to build successful high-performance project teams. Experiential and PC-based activities include:
  • Applying the LSM model and leadership best practices
  • Distinguishing the stages of team development
  • Developing team ground rules
  • Maximizing team participation in delivering project outcomes
  • Creating team direction and purpose
  • Applying conflict style analysis with roleplaying to minimize project disruption
  • Identifying what your project team needs to transition to high performance
  • Building a personal project leadership action plan

Related Courses

 
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Upcoming Dates

Jan 13 - 16, 2009
 Toronto
Jan 27 - 30, 2009
 New York
Feb 10 - 13, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Feb 24 - 27, 2009
 Los Angeles
Mar 24 - 27, 2009
 Ottawa
Mar 24 - 27, 2009
 San Francisco Bay Area
Mar 31 - Apr 3, 2009
 Annapolis, MD
Apr 14 - 17, 2009
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
Apr 21 - 24, 2009
 New York
Apr 28 - May 1, 2009
 Boston (Waltham)
May 12 - 15, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
May 19 - 22, 2009
 Atlanta
May 19 - 22, 2009
 Toronto
May 26 - 29, 2009
 Chicago (Schaumburg)
May 26 - 29, 2009
 Dallas

For complete schedule, please visit www.learningtree.com
 
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Project Leadership: Building High-Performance Teams

 
Course: 346   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 4 Days
 
 
Course 346 Content
 

Introduction

  • Harnessing the power of collaboration to deliver successful projects
  • Delivering quality leadership throughout the project life cycle
  • Matching rewards to the person and the team

Applying the Leadership Services Model

Shifting toward a service leadership approach

  • Setting standards
  • Building team identity
  • Optimizing work
  • Communicating clearly
  • Developing productive relationships
  • Protecting the team

Redefining the role of the project leader

  • Moving toward the team as customer
  • Changing your priorities and perceptions

Building your best practice leadership toolkit

  • Creating a customized project leadership framework
  • Generating a personal action plan

Defining the Team Development Framework

The start-up actions of effective leadership

  • Documenting objectives and constraints in a team charter
  • Structuring team responsibility

Fostering a team state of mind

  • The power of common purpose
  • What project leaders really manage

Enhancing productive teamwork

  • Building team collaboration skills
  • Establishing team-owned ground rules

Planning for a Team-Driven Project

Unleashing the power of participation

  • Organizing effective work design
  • Encouraging team responsibility
  • Managing people proactively

Implementing a participative approach to key planning tasks

  • Kick-off meeting
  • Project purpose
  • Milestones
  • Resourcing
  • Complementing team expertise

Implementing Through Productive Team Leadership

Behaving powerfully and productively

  • Enhancing performance with emotional intelligence
  • Matching interpersonal communication styles
  • Nurturing a climate that promotes mutual trust
  • Instilling a culture of respect
  • Taking responsibility for change

Optimizing communication

  • Employing the right communication channels
  • Balancing human and electronic interaction

Managing for agreement and handling conflict

  • Creating a context for risk taking and trust
  • Minimizing misunderstandings and preempting conflicts

Enhancing Team Performance

Diagnosing team status

  • The Tuckman model: Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing
  • Driving mutually accountable performance

Integrating team personality differences

  • Adapting to individual work styles
  • Identifying communication pitfalls

Creating an efficient environment

  • Minimizing wasted time and effort
  • Optimizing the working environment

Insulating the team from outside pressures

  • Managing power proactively
  • Preempting potential problems
  • Navigating through responsibilities and assignments

Enabling productive dissent

  • Providing positive feedback
  • Balancing team alignment and difference

Evaluating the Project and Moving Forward

  • Identifying key lessons learned
  • Documenting benchmarks for improvement
  • Matching your leadership strategies to your real-world situation
  • Setting performance milestones
 
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Project Leadership: Building High-Performance Teams Tuition

 
Course: 346   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 2,790 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,800 10-Day Pass
$ 1,670 Training Passport
$ 1,625 Premium-Pass
$ 2,200 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,515 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,484 Government Discount
 

 

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

Tuition Savings Plans

Training Passport
  • 3 courses in 12 months
  • As little as $1,670 per course
  • Savings as much as 45%
  • Only $5,000
Premium Pass
  • 4 courses in 24 months
  • As little as $1,625 per course
  • Save as much as 45%
10-Day Pass
  • A NEW way to save on training
  • 10 days of training for one person
  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Only $4,500
Training Vouchers
  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Fully transferable
  • As low as $2,200 per course
Alumni Gold Discount Attend your first course and you'll receive a personalized Alumni Gold Discount card, entitling you to save as much as $305 on each course you take within the following 12 months. Take just one course each year and you'll be entitled to ongoing discounts...year after year!

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Unless you feel 100% satisfied that Learning Tree delivered even more than you expected, there is no fee for your course attendance. Our Guarantee of Quality lets you experience the value of the course--and then pay only if you feel the course was well worth the tuition.

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Enroll by phone or online. If your plans change, just let us know and, without a fee, you can transfer to another course or cancel your enrollment. Pay after you've taken the course, and then only if you are 100% satisfied.
 
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