Course Objectives
After completing this course, students will know how to:
- Identify the phases and requirements of a successful project, build and organize a project team, and avoid pitfalls in project teams.
- Identify the characteristics of a project team, understand whom the project stakeholders are, recognize how individual responsibilities and stress affect the team, and how team members can self
- evaluate.
- Identify various roles in project team meetings, maximize the effectiveness of team meetings, understand the purpose of introductory meetings and the goal
- setting process, and identify various issues that a team might face during team meetings.
- Communicate effectively through active listening and nonverbal and verbal communication techniques, and receive and give effective feedback.
- Use various methods of decision
- making, resolve team conflict, and achieve consensus in a project team.
- Empower and motivate a project team, develop a positive culture, identify the causes of change in a team, manage change, and improve existing project teams.
Agenda
- Project fundamentals
- Understanding the phases of a project life cycle
- Identifying the characteristics of a successful project
- Project teams
- Understanding the stages of a project team
- Organizing a project team
- Avoiding pitfalls in project teams
- Characteristics of a project team
- Understanding diversity
- Identifying the roles of project stakeholders
- Individual responsibilities
- Recognizing stress
- Evaluating individual performance in a team
- Team meetings
- Identifying roles in project team meetings
- Maximizing effectiveness
- Building team cohesion
- Introductory meetings
- Understanding introductory meetings
- Setting goals
- Pitfalls to successful meetings
- Understanding communication issues
- Identifying the affects of misunderstood roles
- Managing conflict
- Listening skills
- Improving active listening skills
- Identifying comprehensive and supportive listening
- Verbal communications
- Communicating clearly
- Communicating assertively
- Understanding effective verbal communication
- Understanding empowerment
- Feedback
- Receiving feedback
- Giving feedback
- Methods of decision-making
- Identifying decision-making methods
- Conflicts and consensus
- Resolving conflict in a team
- Dealing with difficult team members
- Achieving consensus
- Empowerment and motivation
- Building a team
- Motivating your team
- Developing positive culture
- Change management
- Identifying factors that lead to change
- Providing support
- Existing project team improvement
- Improving your team
- Directing team focus
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Course Type: Instructor Led