Project Leadership in Action: Power, Influence, Politics and Negotiations
Project & Contracting & Law
Introduction
Leadership in project management is a journey of discovery, embarking on a path to discern the pinnacle of one's leadership qualities and progressing toward fostering and cultivating an ideal leadership identity. This endeavor aims to hone skills that significantly bolster the success of projects. The project leadership course fortifies your leadership identity to ensure its sustainability with every action you embark on or decide to delineate in all your project endeavors
In project management, possessing robust interpersonal abilities is pivotal in efficiently executing tasks. Thus, this project leadership, politics, influence, and negotiation course will amplify your capability to wield personal skills to impact others positively. The project leadership course elucidates skills and methodologies vital to influencing others assertively and elegantly, especially within the framework of a project where direct control is not feasible
The curriculum delves into various leadership traits, characteristics, behaviors, and styles. It scrutinizes interpersonal styles and skills and their effect on project leadership, motivation, team dynamics, trust, and the empowerment of employees. The seamless integration of these concepts provides a comprehensive view to spawn more opportunities for the success of your project while preserving your integrity
By the end of the course, participants will be
able to:
- Learn practical techniques to
enhance their project leadership skills.
- Exercise a wide range of concepts
to enhance their power and ability to influence others.
- Manage corporate politics at both
project and senior management levels.
- Master forms of power and evaluate
strategies to increase their total power to ensure the project's success.
- Identify principles, guidelines,
and common methods of negotiation on projects.
- Develop negotiating strategies that
focus on projects' common goals and interests rather than positions.
- Discover and nurture a unique
leadership identity, learning to project a dynamic image.
- Continue the development of their
leadership identity.
- Become more politically astute
while upholding integrity and ethics.
- Understand the skills and
competencies required to influence and negotiate project needs
effectively.
- Refine their skills in gaining and
using influence positively.
- Boost confidence when negotiating
with project stakeholders.
- Learn how to safeguard against the
pitfalls of intra-organizational politics.
Training Methodology
A highly interactive combination of lecture and discussion sessions will be managed to maximize the amount and quality of information, knowledge and experience transfer. The sessions will start by raising the most relevant questions, and motivate everybody finding the right answers. The attendants will also be encouraged to raise more of their own questions and to share developing the right answers using their own analysis and experience.
Course Outline
Day 1:
The Nature of Project Environment and Organizational Politics
- Challenges in the project environment.
- Politics: Project management leadership
fact-of-life.
- Leadership in project management: political
art.
- Organizational politics and the project
lifecycle.
- Organizational culture and its impact on
project management.
- Project politics and self-awareness.
- The role and influence of project
stakeholders.
- Factors contributing to organizational and
project politics.
- Political behaviors for project team members.
- Developing political skills is necessary for
project team members.
- Necessity of result-based leadership in project environments.
Day 2:
Project Leadership
- Traits of effective project leadership.
- Project leadership attitudes.
- The three building blocks of project
leadership.
- Project leadership styles.
- Personality and self-awareness in project
leadership.
- Comparing IQ vs. EQ in project leadership.
- Project team leadership: communication and
coaching.
- Behaviors of developing exceptional project
leaders.
- Project leadership in action.
Day 3:
The Use of Power and Influence in Project Leadership
- Creating excellence in project leadership
through power and leadership.
- Necessity of power in projects.
- Sources of power.
- Powerful vs. powerless talk in project
leadership.
- Building a sense of personal project
leadership power.
- Models and practices of empowerment.
- Influence tactics for project leaders.
- Keys to successful influence in project
leadership.
- Attitudes and behaviors of project
stakeholders.
- Developing credibility in projects.
- Project leadership trust-building.
- Communication/trust/agreement relationship in
project leadership.
- Project leadership in action.
Negotiation for Maximizing Project Results
- Necessity
of negotiation in projects.
- The
role of the project leader is as a negotiator.
- Preparations
for project-related negotiations.
- Active
listening and negotiation with project stakeholders.
- Emotions
and conflict in project negotiations.
- Principle-based
project negotiations.
- Common
negotiating errors.
- Negotiation
tactics are necessary for project leaders.
- Using
persuasion and delegation for project success.
Day 5:
Project Leadership Development
- Self-awareness
and self-discipline skills for project leaders.
- Leadership
learning and mentoring in project contexts.
- Leadership
transitions in project environments.
- Political
strategy formulation for project teams.
- Fostering
a positive project culture.
- Navigating
multi-relationship management with project stakeholders.
- Being
the complete project leader package.
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