Leading & Managing High-Performing Project Teams

Course overview

This 2-day course provides a unique opportunity to develop core competencies in such people skills as improving self-understanding, assessing the effectiveness of others, team building, leadership, motivation, and conflict resolution. Participants gain a practical understanding of how to assess and sustain effective team performance throughout the project life cycle, as well as how to identify and resolve key resource issues.

Prerequisites

• Project Management Fundamentals (HC577) and Leadership & Communication Skills for Project Managers (HE537) or equivalent

Audience

• This course is intended for for students who are Project Teamslooking to prepare to take the PMP® exam
• This course is also appropriate for project HP product number: HL256 managers who want to improve their leadership

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Course objectives

• To gain knowledge and skills that you need to: then chose "registration" or "Book a course" and fill out

Next steps

• Advanced Project Management topics leading to recognition of your knowledge and skill by passing the Project Management certification appropriate to your country or region

Benefits to you

• World-class project management training based on the PMI® Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). Project management is an HP core competency, with 3500 experienced project managers in 160 countries
• Increased confidence in the management of your projects leading to professional recognition and increased levels of responsibility
• Better project performance and increased satisfaction among your project team

Course outline

Key Concepts

• Leadership and management
• Interpersonal skills required to effectively manage a project
• Characteristics of different types of teams
• Assessment of current project teams
• Characteristics of high-performing teams

Launching a New Project Team

• Leadership and management needs of a newly-formed project team
• Project human resource planning
• Acquiring a project team
• Essential components of a successful project team launch
• Project vision and goals
• Standards and processes
• Effective project kick-off meetings
• Leadership techniques for effectively launching project teams

Building a High-performing Team

• Stages of team development
• Empowerment
• Building trust
• Cultural diversity
• Team decision making
• Developing team member competence
• Coaching skills
• Conflict resolution
• Motivating project teams
• Recognition
• Moving teams toward high performance