Duration: 5 Days
Why Choose this Training Course?
Any aspiring project manager can hope to be a good leader, although this may be particularly challenging if you are a female in a male-dominated world. This course provides our female delegates with key insights, tips, and skills to better manage, perform, motivate, and ultimately become a successful leader of both the project team and the project. This highly engaging and interactive course will introduce management and leadership skills that matter. Learn how successful leaders can build high-performing project teams through good behaviors to support existing technical skills. Ultimately, the best project leaders develop others to make a significant contribution to their work on the project.
Project managers are catalysts for change. Learn how development of your leadership skills will help to inspire a sense of shared purpose in the project team regardless of your sex and gain an insight into how to manage projects from beginning to end using proven project-management techniques. Successful leaders have the discipline to think through alternatives from a strategic point of view. Their consistent ability to make smart decisions stems from asking the right questions. If you are looking to increase your skills around management and leadership, and if you believe you have what it takes to lead and you’re prepared to step up, then this is the course for you.
This LEADWomen training course has been designed by a leading female trainer specifically to benefit female professionals, it covers key topics to enable female professionals to thrive in their projects and become confident and effective communicators, negotiators, and leaders to enable them to deliver projects successfully.
This LEADWomen training course will feature:
- How to make the real and measurable shift from project manager to project leader
- How to enhance your personal development to become a better leader
- Best practice methodologies to improve decision-making
- The most current trends which are challenging traditional managerial skills to update your leadership skills allowing you to motivate the team toward project success
- Personal skills that take little work, but deliver huge results
What are the Goals?
By attending this LEADWomen training course, delegates will be able to:
- Understand the importance of the mental shift from project manager to project leader
- Enhance their personal growth through psychometric and Emotional Intelligence evaluations
- Improve decision-making skills to deliver important and timely responses
- Cultivate their project teams in preparation for project success
- Understand the need to communicate your strategy to the project team, the client, and other project stakeholders
Training Methodology
This LEADWomen training seminar will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. The daily workshops will be highly interactive and participative. This will involve regular discussions on key concept in project appraisal and risk management, the uses and limitations of various techniques, and how best to identify, evaluate, select and structure these high value undertakings.
This seminar does not assume prior knowledge of the topics covered in the course. New concepts and tools are introduced gradually to enable delegates to progress from the fundamental to the more advanced concepts of project management and leadership. A highly interactive approach is used to encourage engagement.
Who is this Training Course for?
We must recognize that leadership comes in all shapes and sizes and one does not have to be a manager to become a leader. This training seminar is suitable to a wide range of professionals involved in the development, appraisal, implementation and management of projects. Those with previous experience in project appraisal will be able to share their expertise with others; the broad base of participants ensures that everyone benefits from a wide range of sector and policy perspectives.
This LEADWomen training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Project leaders in both public and private sectors
- Technical specialists seeking broader perspectives of project management & leadership
- Project managers or Project engineers with leadership responsibilities
- Project developers, sponsors, consultants
- Project controls personnel
Course Outline
Day 1:
Transitioning from Manager to Leader
- The need for the shift from project manager to project leader
- Defining a thought process to make better decisions
- Enhance personal development through increased self-awareness
- Practice emotional intelligence in a project environment
- Develop an executive-type presence
- Heading for success by starting with the end in mind
Day 2:
Expand your Own Perspective
- Become a thought leader
- Learn how to expand your strategic scope
- Learn how to become innovative
- Improve your decision-making
- Project Kick-off – Getting to know the Team & the Project
- The science and art of communicating effectively as a female in a male environment
Day 3:
Commit to People and Relationships
- Objective of project leadership
- Limitations of project management and team relationships
- Recognise the place for talent management
- Use of mentoring to develop future project leaders
- Cultivate conditions for project team success and growth
- Managing Risks to deliver a Pro-Active Project
Day 4:
Leadership Body Language
- Understand how body-language symbols and perceived by others
- Have your body language match your message for positive communication
- Six ways to make a positive first impression
- Establishing a leadership presence
- Conveying confidence in a warm and empathetic manner
Day 5:
Putting it all into practice
- Make the shift: moving from technical to relational skills
- Nurturing Emotional Quality
- Expand your perspective:
- Think in terms of team results
- Consider Client relationships
- Consider Business perspective
- Commit to people and relationships
- Understand the value of developing future leaders
The Certificate
- LEADWomen Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course
