Project Managers must be able to successfully lead teams without positional authority and deal with different priorities, difficult behaviors, and team challenges. This workshop provides a team development process that facilitates the development of a new team or the revitalization of an existing team. Whether you are working with a co-located or virtual team, you will rapidly increase your team’s effectiveness with the use of these best practices, team tools and skills.
Who Should Attend
Program, Project Managers and other line managers who want to increase their ability to effectively develop and lead cross functional teams.
What You Will Learn
- Skills to be an effective project team leader
- Confidence and ability to deal effectively with challenging team situations
- Facilitative leadership strategies to promote team communication, collaboration, and performance
- Tools and techniques to work with team members’ differences in communication needs and motivations
- Best practices for leading virtual teams
- Assessment tools and feedback to develop accountability and project team performance
- What Teams Need – seven factors project teams need to produce results
- Team Leader Best Practices – behaviors, values and mind set to lead successful teams
- Virtual and Co-located Meeting Effectiveness – tools and strategies for any type of meeting
- Team Work Tools – tools used to align individuals and the project team with the organization
- Team Communication Strategies – skills and tools for clear communications, decision making, and positive interactions with all stakeholders
- Problem Solving Process – structured and creative processes for utilization of team to overcome obstacles and reach project goals
- Conflict Management – approaches and models to constructively manage team conflict
Seminar Outline
1. Introduction
- What Makes Project Teams Work
- Foundation Tools for Project Success
- Goals, Roles and Processes
- Establishing a Code of Conduct
- Team Requirements
2. What Teams Need
- Seven Critical Factors
- Stages of Project Team Development
- Project Manager’s Role as Leader
- Managing and Leading – Strengths and Areas to Develop
- Vision and Alignment
3. Utilizing Resources
- Team Dynamics
- Team Exercise - Assessment
- Understanding Difference – Motivations and Needs
- Decision Making
- Team Communication Tools and Strategies
- Review and Brainstorming
- Communication Plan
- Identifying Stake Holders and Communication Needs
- Influencing
- Feedback
- Conflict Management
- Team Problem Solving
- Team Challenges- Team Problem Solving Exercise
- Difficult Project Member Behaviors
- Project Team Assessment and Action Plan
- Next Steps
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