Project Leadership Management and Communications

Course Introduction

If you’re an aspiring project manager, you can learn to be a great leader. This Oxford Management Project Management online training course on Project Leadership Management and Communications provides you 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 itself. During this highly engaging and interactive Project Management online training course, you will learn why management and leadership skills matter, and how successful leaders can build high performing project teams through behaviours to support the technical skills that are already there. 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, and 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, then this is the online training for you.

This Oxford Management Centre online training Course will highlight:

• How to make the real and measurable shift from project manager to project leader?
• How to enhance your own 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 towards project success
• Personal skills that take little work, but deliver huge results

Objectives

This interactive and practical Oxford Management Project Management online training Course on Project Leadership Management and Communications will provide an insight into how project organisations can meet the challenge to pick and deliver the best projects within a context of limited resources.

It will take you through the key stages of project management, and provide guidance on how to transition to a better leader and how to make use of the most appropriate tools to improve project team delivery.

This Oxford Management Project Management online training Course will focus on the principal leadership factors and other key issues that need to be considered in managing the delivery of major, long-term, high-value projects.

By the end of this Oxford Management online training Course, participants 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

Training Methodology

This online training Course will utilize a variety of proven online learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension, retention of the information presented. The training Course is conducted Online via an Advanced Virtual Learning Platform in the comfort of any location of your choice.

Organisational Impact

Application of sound project leadership techniques will enable the project managers to achieve recognisesd potential future conditions to create strategic opportunities via project success. Good leaders help to maximise the organisation's return on capital invested in projects, while also improving company reputation for delivering positive outcomes.

Personal Impact

By the end of this online training Course, your potential contribution to your organisation will be significantly enhanced. You will be able to:

• Understand how to make better decisions relating to project delivery
• Apply tools and techniques that address team motivation / assessment
• Develop robust structures to identify, allocate or otherwise manage project decisions
• Maximise the prospects of successful project delivery
• Understand the core elements of project leadership models and their use in supporting and motivating project delivery teams

Who Should Attend?

This Project Management online course on Project Leadership Management and Communications 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 online training Course will particularly 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 responsbilities
• Project Developers, Sponsors, Consultants
• Project Controls Personnel
• Project Management Professionals

Course Outline

DAY 1

Transition 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 Fevelopment through Increased Self-awareness
• Practice Emotional Intelligence in a Project Environment
• Develop an Executive-type Presence

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

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

DAY 4

Body Language for Leaders

• 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 in 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