Leadership and Interpersonal Skills II

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Course Length:

2 Days

Course Description:

This course covers key leadership and interpersonal skills required to manage intermediate level projects: stakeholder partnering, entrepreneurship, strategic thinking, innovation, and utilizing diversity.

Who Should Attend:

This course is specifically developed to support Project Managers who need to meet the Federal Acquisition Certification for Program and Project Management (FAC-P/PM) program core training requirements.

Benefits of Attendance:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Describe how to partner with stakeholders effectively
• Implement entrepreneurship
• Utilize strategic thinking
• Build teams/IPT
• Explain and manage conflict
• Demonstrate creativity/innovation
• Utilize diversity

Prerequisites:

Students should have taken the Project Management I and Leadership and Interpersonal Skills I courses.

Course Outline:

• Communications Management
  1. Using oral and written skills
  2. Planning communications of macro information
  3. Effective briefing skills
  4. Sharing lessons learned
  5. The media and media policies
• Leadership Skills
  1. Partnering
  2. Team Building
  3. Conflict Management
  4. Political Savvy
  5. Strategic Thinking
  6. Decisiveness
  7. Innovation & Insight
  8. Developing Others
  9. Leveraging Diversity
  10. Negotiating
• Partnering
  1. Networking
  2. Building Alliances
  3. Collaborating across boundaries
  4. Achieving common goals
• Team Building/IPT
  1. Inspiring commitment
  2. Fostering spirit & pride
  3. Motivation team members
• Conflict Management
  1. Managing
  2. Resolving
  3. Confrontations
  4. Remaining constructive
• Political Savvy
  1. Internal politics
  2. External politics
  3. Work impacts
  4. Political reality
• Strategic Thinking
  1. Objectives & priorities
  2. Planning that supports the proganization
  3. Capitolizing on Opportunity
• Decisiveness
  1. Making good decisions with limited information
• Creativity/Innovation
  1. Developing insight
  2. Questioning conventional approaches
  3. Encouraging new ideas
  4. Adding new processes
• Leveraging Diversity
  1. Fostering an inclusive workplace
  2. Valuing differences
• Negotiating
  1. Persuading Others
  2. Acceptable tactics
  3. Unacceptable tactics
  4. The purpose of negotiations
  5. Closing negotiations