Advanced Leadership For Managers

Introduction:

With project management professionals utilizing best practices in managing their own project, we have noticed project success rates improvement in the last few years. Project managers have invested time and effort to master implementing project management methodologies, leveraging advancement in technologies as applied in useful project management and team collaboration tools and techniques. However, even with this success rates, we are still facing a challenging question

Why do organizations today still face many complex challenges in setting and achieving their strategic goals?

To be successful in implementing their strategic goals through projects and programs, organizations need effective leaders with effective managerial skills.

A manager’s skills can encompass strategic thinking and problem-solving to team-building and other soft skills. The leader’s job is to play every role efficiently and deliver the best output to elevate profits and performance.

Strong management skills can be gained through experience and practice. Leadership skills can be learned and leadership qualities can be developed. Effective leaders develop new leadership skills to complement those that made them successful as managers.

Our Promise

Project management is different from leadership. Successful project managers may not be effective leaders. By understanding the difference between project management and leadership and taking the path to become effective leaders, successful project managers can utilize their innovative and creative skills to help them develop leadership skills that will complement their project management abilities.

The aim of Advanced Leadership and Stakeholders Management for Project Managers is to promote the following areas:

• Create a collaborative environment and an agile self and workplace.
• Leading by persuasion and influence , motivation, empathy and delegation.
• Conduct crucial conversations in a constructive way (coaching).
• Self and Team engagement and cooperation.
• Reduce conflicts.
• Building positive relationships at work.
• Become change agents and inspire teams.
• Cascade and maintain organization vision ,culture and performance.
• Gain insight into the role of personality types that impacts persuasion & influencing skills.
• Recognize how our personality and behavior impacts our ability to influence others
• Identify your own personality type for enhanced self-awareness
• Apply Cialdini’s 6 principles of persuasion for achieving better results
• Develop assertive influencing skills with all stakeholders.
• Recognize the role of Perception management in persuasion.
• List the barriers to influence and how to overcome them.

Workshop Outlines

1- Leadership in Action

• Exploring your Leadership perception
• Self-awareness and emotional intelligence for leadership transformations
• Developing self and others through the transformation phase
• Becoming a legacy Leader

2- Communicating with teams:

• What is Communication?
• Importance of effective communication with teams
• The effective communication process
• importance of body language in communication
• Giving constructive feedback

3- Coaching Conversations:

• Importance of coaching conversations
• Coaching Techniques and questions
• Developing teams through coaching

4- Written Communication:

• The Thee main elements of written communication
• Tactics for structuring your written communication
• Selecting the appropriate style to the audience
• Tips for effective email communication

5- Negotiation Skills:

• The 6 secrets of successful Negotiations.
• The 3 conditions of Negotiations.
• Communication and Assertiveness.
  • The 3 C’s of assertiveness
• Conflict Resolution.
  • Strategies of conflict Resolution
• The 4 stages of the Negotiation
• The 5 Negotiation Styles.
• Mistakes to avoid in Negotiations.

6- Influence & Persuasion Skills:

• Influence & Persuasion are Forms of Communication.
• The Disc Model.
• Influence and Persuasion in the Workplace.
• Apply Cialdini’s 6 Principles of persuasion.
• Assertiveness VS Aggression in Persuasion.
• The 6 Principles of Effective Influencing

Who Should Attend

This comprehensive program is designed for

• Certified project managers seeking PDU’s.
• Managers of project managers.
• Project Managers upgrading their Project Management Knowledge.
• Project Team Leaders.
• Project Coordinators.
• Professional contributing in managing projects.
• Professional starting their career in project management.
• Professionals shifting their career to Project Management.