Project Leadership, Management and Communications

Project Leadership, Management, and Communications provides participants with the tools necessary to enhance and build on their leadership skills. Participants will assess their own leadership competencies and focus on areas for improvement. This course addresses critical issues that arise in creating a vision, aligning people to that vision, and energizing people to achieve the vision. Participants will learn about the relationship of leadership to management, how to deal with motivational differences in individuals, interpersonal communication, managing conflict, managing change, and ethical issues in leadership.

Learning objectives

• ­Lead project teams through more effective communication. 
• Identify motivational value systems to improve productivity and cooperation. 
• Recognize the role of business and personal ethics in leadership. 
• Define predictable change stages and identify appropriate leadership strategies for each stage. 
• Utilize a powerful four-stage collaborative negotiation process. 
• Create a Leadership Development Plan to implement when you return to work. 

Behavioural Competencies

• Builds effective teams
• Builds networks
• Collaborates
• Demonstrates self-awareness
• Drives engagement
• Drives results
• Ensures accountability
• Instills trust
• Interpersonal savvy
• Manages conflict
• Values differences

Skills

• Conflict management
• Managing change
• Negotiating and resolving conflict
• Project resource planning and control
• Stakeholder expectation management

PDUs

• Onsite instructor-led: 3 days - 22.5 / 2 days - 15
• Virtual instructor-led: 3 days - 22.5 / 2 days - 15
• Digital/E-learning: 22.5