Managing People in Projects
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Do you need your projects to perform strongly against their objectives?
Do you want to gain commitment from your project team?
People are one of the most important parts of a project, but people management skills are often overlooked in favour of technical skills by project managers. However, effective people management, team management, influencing and communication skills, enable project managers to gain commitment from the project team and achieve the performance needed to successfully deliver against objectives.
You will benefit from this course if you are an experienced or new project manager who wish to develop your people management skills, whether you are managing team members working full time on the project or who have other responsibilities and demands on your time.
Please be aware, this course also provides 14 Hours of Contact Education/Professional Development Units towards PMI PMP certification/re-certification.
Objectives
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Recognise the importance of running a successful project to the organisation
- Explain the importance of people management in projects
- List the skills required to manage people when running a project
- Identify the line/ project manager’s responsibilities for managing people
- State the range of leadership styles available
- Discuss the criteria for deciding which style is appropriate
- Use a style at each stage of the life-cycle of the project
- Recognise the difference between a project team and a work team
- Demonstrate how to map the project team
- State the stages of team development
- Build team roles
- Set objectives for team members
- Define a process for effective delegation
- Recognise the do’s and don’ts of delegation
- Recognise and avoid de-motivational factors
- Develop and build motivation after setbacks have been experienced
- Use recognition within the project to motivate
- Build persuasive communication skills to gain buy-in from team colleagues and stakeholders
- Learn techniques to ensure your communication is clear, concise and clearly understood
- Identify and develop a more active and effective listening process
- Enhance your questioning skills
- Communicate challenging or sensitive messages and minimising conflict
- Manage conflict and dealing with difficult situations and people
- Define stress and its causes
- Recognise the causes and symptoms of stress in yourself and others
- Identify how personality type can affect an individual’s ability to cope with stress
- Recognise the five stages of stress management and how reframing can help limit stressful responses
- State practical methods for reducing stress in yourself and others.
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Prerequisites
There are no specific prerequisites for this course but it is expected that delegates will have some experience managing projects or working as part of a project team