PLMC will provide participants with the tools necessary to enhance and build on their leadership skills. Participants will assess their own leadership competencies and focus on areas for improvement. Participants will develop leadership plans to prioritize needs in developing their leadership abilities upon completing the course and returning to the workplace. This course addresses critical issues that arise in creating a vision, aligning people to that vision, and energizing people to achieve the vision. Participants will learn about the relationship of leadership to management, how to deal with motivational differences in individuals, interpersonal communication, managing conflict, managing change, and ethical issues in leadership.

Who should attend and Benefits of attendance?
Project managers project managers and prospective project managers, especially those who want to improve their "soft skills".

What prerequisite knowledge (if any) by the attendees is critical to the success of the seminar?
Managing Projects is a recommended prerequisite

Audience Level
Intermediate to Advanced

Benefit to Participants

1. Explain current leadership philosophies as applied to project management
2. Develop strategies for leading effective teams
3. Improve relationships and communications with stakeholders by applying Relationship Awareness™ theory and concepts
4. Use appropriate styles of conflict resolution
5. Explore ethical issues in business decisions
6. Manage difficult project management issues
7. Develop strategies for leading successful change
8. Create a leadership development plan

The workshop design is highly experiential, building on principles of accelerated learning. The workshop will use a computer simulation to create a project environment. This workshop condenses months of project experience into two or three days, using a computerized case study to simulate rapid-fire decision-making situations. You will improve your ability to control projects by compiling essential information into meaningful management metrics reports from which to make sound informed decisions. You will learn how to structure a presentation of key information to improve communications with senior management, customer and project staff. The program also promotes team relationships and emphasizes the importance of effective group dynamics, synergy, and the need for communications, resource allocation, unexpected contingencies, conflicts, and acceleration decisions. These team and interpersonal skills and behaviors are practiced, supported by various exercises with immediate feedback on impacts.

Who should attend and Benefits of attendance?
This is ideally suited for project managers or team leaders with 2 to 4 years of experience in project management.

What prerequisite knowledge (if any) by the attendees is critical to the success of the seminar?
Participants should have a good understanding of project management basics and PMBOK.

Audience Level
This program is for an intermediate audience.

Benefit to Participants

1. Allocate complex resources-contractors, staff, vendors, and technology and training personnel-through resource analysis, staffing requirements/responsibilities, assignment plans, workload leveling, staff development and contracts
2. Make effective decisions by building advanced control information and methods such as project metrics, trend analysis, earned value, work tracking, meetings and reports and informal discussions
3. Keep control by evaluating project challenges and variances during implementation and diagnosing real outcomes of alternatives
4. Manage project uncertainties and ambiguity by isolating potential problems, analyzing risks and making contingency plans
5. Plan for quality by managing customer requirements and expectations, conducting quality assessments, enhancing product value, managing client relations and handling project management process reviews
6. Lead effectively by using team development and feedback techniques and building a rich project climate and consecutive relationships with stakeholders