What You Will Learn

• Understand your personal influence style through a self-assessment instrument
  
• How multiple generations and a distributed, mobile workforce are influencing major changes in the workplace
• New approaches and tools to achieve more collaboration and engagement on your virtual project teams
• How to leverage the new web based tools (collaboration and social media) for project communication
• Specific team based decision making and problem solving tools

Class Description

More and more, projects are organized over distance with teams increasingly consisting of members who are based in dispersed geographical locations, have flexible work situations and come from different cultural and generational backgrounds. Project Managers working with these types of project teams need targeted tools and approaches. Their success comes from their ability to connect people with each other, connect people with ideas and generate new ideas.

Course Includes:

• 70 page workbook
  
• Leadership Style self-assessment instrument and explanatory booklet
• Mini case studies, team based strategies and tools to use on the job
• In depth class discussions on how to deal with virtual project team issues

PMBOK Knowledge Areas: Human Resource Management, Communications Management

PDU’s: 7

Return to PM Leadership Classes.

1. Today’s economic landscape demands that professionals have key interpersonal skills required to facilitate brainstorming or data-gathering sessions, run high-profile meetings, and speak to both technical, non-technical and management audiences.

2. Interpersonal style, along with communication, customer-service and relationship-building skills, is critical not only to personal success, but also to the success of a project or organization as a whole. Presenting the right message, in the right medium, at the right time can be a difficult - though necessary - set of skills to acquire.