Effective techniques for developing, inspiring and leading successful project teams.

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15-16 June 2010, Budapest
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Overview

Project teams present a particularly difficult leadership challenge, especially if the person in the leadership role is not the line manager.

Teams may include part-time or ‘as needed’ staff, sometimes based in different locations. Motivation may be an issue if members are under pressure as a result of involvement in multiple projects. Also project teams may include staff from various organisations and differing levels of seniority or experience.

For these reasons and more, highly effective leadership skills are essential for delivering successful projects.

This course will address this and other common leadership challenges including:

• It’s tough to act as a leader when most project teams are temporary, often part time and trying to balance a number of priorities as well as their own contribution to the project
• Resources are often swapped between projects to cover fluctuations in workload, so issues ofteambuilding and conflict can be particularly significant.
• Project leaders frequently don’t have a lot of line management experience, so leadership training canhelp both their competence and confidence.
• Management expect project teams to be fully productive after kickoff, but this requires very high levelsof leadership and a good understanding of team dynamics.
• People working together can accomplish far more than individuals working alone.

Who Should Attend

This event is a must for Project Sponsors, Program / Project Leaders, Project Managers, Team
Leaders and others who are committed to developing their teams into high performing work units. You will participate in a range of one to one role-plays of common leadership challenges and be invited to give/receive feedback with a small group of project leaders.

The event is highly participative, including a mixture of discussion, exercises, practical tools and case studies.

Benefits of Attendance

Can you afford the price of letting your teams under perform while your competitors move ahead? Effective teams mean higher productivity and higher morale.

• A range of practical tools, approaches and advice designed to help get the best performance from a project team
• An opportunity to consider your own leadership style, examine when your natural style is suitable and develop competence in alternative leadership approaches.
• Realistic models and tactics for understanding, managing and negotiating solutions to conflicts in the project environment
• Facilitated discussions and the opportunity to share best practice with other project team leaders from a range of organisations and industries
• Practical advice and feedback in developing key leadership skills of assessing, developing, motivating and performance management in a range of challenging project team situations
   

Trainer Profile

Peter O'Neill, PMP
Peter O’Neill is an international trainer and writer with more than 25 years experience in the project management and project leadership arena.  In the past five years, he has worked across much of Central and Eastern Europe, delivering public and customized in-company courses, including: Project Negotiations with Eurotel in the Czech Republic, and Project Leadership with Orange Romania.  Peter was Program Director at the Steel Industry Management College and has lead, facilitated, and advised project teams in an array of private and public sector areas. Early in his career, he also served for two years as Group Chairman with the UK trade union ASTMS. Peter is an “Associate Fellow” at Warwick University UK, where he tutors in Project Management for the prestigious Warwick Business School MBA program. He also designed and authored their new on-line Project Management MBA module.  He is an author and reviewer of the Association for Project Management’s guidance book “Project Management Pathways”, in which he contributed the chapters on Conflict Management and Project Negotiations. Mr. O’Neill’s academic qualifications include an MBA from Warwick Business School and a degree in technology and systems.  He is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP®) by the Project Management Institute and is qualified to deliver the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator programs.

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