Project Leadership

Applying leadership to Strategy, People, Climate in Project & Program Management

2010 Leadership Workshop

“You manage things; you lead people.”

— Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper


“As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.”

— Patrick Lencioni

Leaders aren’t born, they’re made!

Leadership is developed through becoming self-aware, setting goals and finding opportunities to practice new attitudes and approaches. The forum provides a structured environment to learn about leadership principles, examine how to apply them to your job, and start to develop a plan for personal growth.

The keynotes and the case studies present the importance of leadership in project management and provide a first-hand look at effective leadership approaches and how they made a difference in actual projects. This information, in addition to all of your experiences as a project or program manager, will lay the foundation for you to start building your leadership development plan.

 

Project Leadership competencies that impact Strategy, People, and Climate

  • Thinking Strategically
  • Inspiring a Vision
  • Building Trusted Relationships
  • Communicating
  • Leading Change
  • Influencing a Positive Climate
  • Innovating

The forum will explore three specific areas where leadership impacts project management. The workshops are hands-on sessions facilitated by leadership experts, in which you will take a close look at how to adopt these approaches into your own leadership style. As a result of the workshop, you should expect to feel knowledgeable and prepared to start experimenting with new approaches.

Project Leadership Workshop by The Creating WE Institute

All project managers have a plan. Successful project leaders go beyond the plan. They build a vision by defining and communicating the foundation of every project to create a framework for success.

Project Leadership is comprised of three primary skill sets – Strategy, People, and Climate. These are the Critical Success Factors for driving results with others. Like a three-legged stool, the absence of any one of these weakens a leader’s ability to empower their teams to achieve success for their organizations.

In this highly interactive 2-hour workshop, and through hands-on exercises that emphasize participation and practical application, participants will delve into the components for success embedded in each success factor:

  • Strategy:  thinking strategically, inspiring a vision
  • People: communicating, leading change, building trusting relationships
  • Climate: influencing & innovating

Creating WE InstituteThe Creating WE Facilitators:

The Creating WE Institute will engage participants in co-creating conversations that will awaken insights and deepen skills that can be implemented immediately at work to expand leadership presence, strengthen relationships, and build project teams.

Objectives:
This program is designed to give project leaders the strategic know-how and leadership capacity to build a truly innovative and generative future. Using Creating WE concepts and technologies, participants will develop a solid grounding in practical leadership skills that will enable them to powerfully influence their organizations and inspire bold, courageous change. They will walk away with a clearer sense of what WE-centric leadership can do to empower not only individuals, but also the whole team and organization.

In this provocative, informative, and engaging session, participants will learn how to:

  • Inspire a vision and engage people to think strategically together to achieve an end results.
  • Build trusting relationships that endure during difficult times of change.
  • Positively influence teams to break old patterns and innovate beyond expectations.

Participants will have handouts to take back home to catalyze new thinking and WE-centric teamwork in their workplace.

 

Read more about the case studies and presenters…

 

 


What makes the Project Leadership programs unique?

The program focuses on the interpersonal aspects of managing people. Through interactive case studies, you'll examine actual projects and learn about the leadership factors that impacted the project's outcome. Exchange lessons learned with peers, and hear about the techniques successful project leaders consider essential. Instructional seminars will explain key theories and principles that are the foundation for effective leadership behaviors.



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