Leadership and soft skills in projects
From project team to project excellence: Projects are more than the sum of their tasks - they are living social systems. Their success depends crucially on how well these systems are understood, designed and managed. Clearly defined roles form the foundation, but the real key to successful projects lies in interpersonal skills: effective communication, constructive and supportive feedback, smooth (virtual and intercultural) collaboration, conflict management and a proactive approach to change.
Based on the principles of positive leadership and servant leadership, you will learn how to not only organize your project teams, but also how to inspire them. Create a working environment in which commitment, trust and top performance are a matter of course - for the success of your projects.
You want to
- increase your success in challenging projects
- be able to optimally define and assert your leadership role in projects
You need
- Procedures to create a working environment that enables motivation, creativity and personal responsibility
- To strengthen your soft skills to better manage relationships between stakeholders and project team members
You bring
- Experience in project work
- Preferably you have completed a BWI training course such as “Project Management Methodology and Tools” or equivalent training
- A case study from your own practice that can be worked on in the seminar
- Openness to discuss even challenging situations
- Willingness to actively participate and discuss on both a factual and personal level
You will learn
- How to apply the right management style for your project
- How you can achieve an impact without hierarchical leadership power
- How to give authentic and appreciative feedback
- Identify the strengths and weaknesses of your project organization using the Belbin® team role model and receive personally structured feedback
- Recognize resistance and conflicts and deal with them effectively
- Create a working environment that enables effective collaboration
- The positive leadership and servant leadership models for projects provide you with a tool to successfully develop your team
- Successfully shape change processes
Topics covered by the training
- Common pitfalls in project management
- Fundamentals of systemic thinking
- Basic requirements for effective collaboration
- Team development and team dynamics
- Focus in the project business, role clarification
- Diversity and multi-perspectivity
- Communicating transparently
- Authentic and appreciative feedback
- Leadership models such as situational leadership style or lateral leadership
- Positive leadership and servant leadership in projects
- Motivation and power factors
- Retrospectives and learning
- Sustainable decision-making
- Effective design of project roles
- Belbin® team roles
- Conflict management: conflict diagnosis and conflict resolution
- Dealing with resistance
Methods used
- The training conveys the contents by using short presentations on the theory and practical examples to show it in practice
- The important topics are worked on, with deeper analysis done in small groups
- The training is conducted in classroom training, which allows an interactive exchange between the participants
Coaching included in the course price
It is easier to transfer what has been learnt into everyday life if you have someone to reflect on a topic of interest. Therefore, we include one hour of coaching in the training, The coaching must be used within two months after the course.
Qualification IPMA Certification
The internationally recognised certifications in project management according to the IPMA® guidelines demonstrate mastery of the three areas of competence practices, context and people. Attending the two trainings "Methodology and Instruments" and "Leadership and Team" provides an ideal basis for successful certification according to the current IPMA Competence Baseline (ICB4). The textbook "Handbook Projectmanagement - agile, classical and hybrid", used in the training, covers all topics relevant for IPMA certification. The selection and combination of the topics in the training is based on the requirements of IPMA®.
Documentation
You will receive documents in digital form, which can be accessed in your personal login area on the BWI homepage.
- Max. Teilnehmer
- 12
- Duration
- 3 days
- Price
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2950 CHF
As it is easier to learn with someone you know: bring along an accompanying person from your company and benefit from a 10% discount from the second person taking part.