Management and Leadership Skills for New Managers
3-day training seminar, $2195
Virtual seminar, $2195
Onsite delivery available
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Overview

Managing a successful project involves more than schedules, templates, and paperwork. It requires the application of strong interpersonal management skills to work effectively with people in a variety of roles.

The skills you'll learn in this course will enable you to apply effective leadership strategies, improve your interpersonal communication, become more influential, help guide your staff through change, deal with conflict and practice ethical principles during the entire project management process.

With the aid of the hands-on case study exercises, you'll learn to create a motivating team atmosphere and ultimately manage your project successfully.

By attending this training seminar you'll:

  • Manage stakeholders and teams
  • Assess and apply leadership styles
  • Improve communication
  • Enhance influence and power bases
  • Motivate team members
  • Lead effective project teams
  • Coach team members
  • Practice change management
  • Manage individual and team conflict
  • Practice ethical project management
  • Create a Leadership Development Plan

Who Would Benefit

Associate project managers, project managers, IT project managers, project coordinators, project analysts, project leaders, senior project  anagers, team leaders, product managers and program managers.

Agenda

1. Introduction to Project Leadership

  • What Is Project Management?
  • Role of Project Manager as Organizational Leader
  • Begin Developing Leadership Development Plan
  • The Triple Constraint
  • Leadership Skills
  • Stakeholders

2. Leadership and Management

  • Leadership vs. Management
  • Leadership Orientation
  • Management Styles
  • Three Functions of Management
  • Trait Theory
  • Fiedler's Contingency Model
  • The Leaders Window

3. Interpersonal Communication

  • The Communication Loop
  • Filters and Barriers
  • The Interpersonal Gap
  • Active Listening

4. Influence

  • Influences on a Project Manager
  • Influence Styles
  • Power and the Project Manager

5. Motivation

  • Motivation Theories
  • Motivating Under-Performing Team Members
  • Rewards and Behavior
  • Creating a Motivation Plan
  • Vroom's Expectancy Theory

6. Effective Teams

  • Team Roles
  • Stages of Project Team Development
    • Forming
    • Storming
    • Norming
    • Performing
    • Deforming
  • Team Process and Functional Teams
  • Coaching Team Members

7. Change Management

  • What is Change Management?
  • Being an Organizational Change Agent
  • Influencers of Change
  • Stages of Organizational Change
  • Strategies to Manage Change

8. Conflict

  • What is Conflict?
  • Constructive Conflict vs. Destructive Conflict
  • Conflict Reactions to Avoid
  • Conflict Resolution Techniques
  • Staying Calm in Conflict Situations
  • What is Negotiation?
  • Attitudes About Negotiation
  • Negotiation Requirements
  • Formal Project Negotiation Planning

9. Ethics and Leadership

  • Ethics and Values
  • Personal and Business Ethics
  • Project Management Institute Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

Hands-On Exercises

  • Leadership Self-Assessment
  • Leadership Style Analysis
  • Active Listening Role Play
  • Deter Influence Style Preference
  • Complete Power Base Profile
  • Morale Problem Case Study
  • Conflict Resolution

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Registration Fees

Both classroom and virtual training formats are available.

The per student registration fee for both formats is $2,195. Fees for classroom session include the seminar, course materials, and morning and afternoon refreshments.

Classroom training begins at 8:30 AM each day and concludes at 4:30 PM unless otherwise directed. Please arrive early on the first day to sign-in and meet fellow attendees. If you register less than one week in advance of a class, please bring your confirmation letter. Business casual attire is appropriate. For information on virtual training session start and stop times, refer to the course schedule below.

Register securely online with confidence or please call (708) 246-0320.

Seminar Schedule
Jan 9-11, 2023 8:30 AM-4:30 PM ET Virtual Classroom
Mar 20-22, 2023 8:30 AM-4:30 PM ET Virtual Classroom
Apr 3-5, 2023 8:30 AM-4:30 PM ET Virtual Classroom
May 15-17, 2023 8:30 AM-4:30 PM ET Virtual Classroom

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Terms & Conditions

Seminar provider is not responsible for losses due to cancellation. In all circumstances, seminar provider's liability shall be limited to fees received.

Seminar agenda and assigned instructors are subject to change.

Public Training Terms & Conditions

Payment is due prior to the seminar.

Public seminar cancellation policy.  Registrants may cancel up to fourteen days in advance of the seminar start date for a full refund, less administrative fees of $400.  Or, you may transfer your registration to another member of your company at no additional charge.  Registrants canceling within fourteen days of the seminar will receive training credit, less administrative fees of $400 toward any other Resource Center seminar.

In the unlikely event that a seminar must be cancelled by seminar provider due to unavoidable circumstances, you will be notified at least two weeks prior to the seminar date, and your payment will be refunded.  Seminar provider is not responsible for losses due to cancellation including losses on advanced purchase airfares.  We strongly recommend that attendees traveling by air to attend the seminar purchase only refundable tickets.Become a certified callcenter manager