Course: Leadership of the Project Director
DURATION
2 Days
LANGUAGES
French
PACE
Full time
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The Leadership of the Project Director course focuses on developing leadership skills necessary for effective project management. This program covers key aspects of project leadership, including decision-making, conflict resolution, and innovative thinking. Designed for aspiring leaders, the course employs case studies and practical scenarios to enhance learning and application of leadership concepts.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue careers as project directors, program managers, or leaders in various industries. Potential roles include managing large projects, leading teams, and ensuring successful project delivery. This course prepares students for high-level responsibilities and strategic roles within organizations.
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Introduction
January 30 - 31, 2020
March 23 - 24, 2020
June 25 - 26, 2020
November 26 - 27, 2020
Project Director Leadership
General informations
Goal
At the end of this training, learners will be able to:
- to identify their dominant leadership style,
- to discover the levers of individual and common motivations,
- to build its version and share it,
- to mobilize all project stakeholders to develop cooperation.
Prerequisites
No specific prior knowledge required
Public
Project director
levels
improvement
Program
descriptive
Exercising effective leadership
- Understand the characteristics of leadership
- Know how to identify the four main styles of leadership and identify your dominant style
- Understand the leader's power of influence
- Distinguish power, power and authority
- Understand the characteristics of a successful project team
- Identify the stages of development of your team
- Evaluate the know-how and motivation of each employee
- Anticipate difficulties: anticipate possible scenarios and the best alternatives
Foster team cohesion
- Understanding how teams work: the characteristics of a project team, its dynamics
- Defining the benefits of team cohesion
- Develop team membership: methods and tools
- Take into account the different environments of team members and their organizations
- Establish operating rules: conducting meetings, debriefing,
Lead your project team
- Define objectives for the team that are motivating factors
- Delegate and empower
- Define with each employee their mission and role in the team, identify individual skills
- Unify dispersed teams
Foster productive confrontation, neutralize destructive conflict
- Make decisions as a team, respond to objections and use them positively
- Anticipate and resolve destabilizing factors, know how to rebound
- Present a team project, the role of each team member
- Integrate new employees, manage departures
- Foster active collaboration
- Meeting challenges, creating change, innovating
- Know the motivational levers to empower its stakeholders
- Build and inspire a shared vision, give meaning to actions and projects
- Communicate to mobilize your project team
- Establish a climate of trust, define cooperation objectives
- Take inspiration from Agile methods
- Encourage, recognize individual contributions, celebrate success
The challenges of transversal management
- Lead without hierarchical power
- Foster collaborative work and collective intelligence, set up a planned verification system
- Involve the management of the company on its project
- The management of IT or business "punctual contributors", their place in the project team
- Work in multidisciplinary teams, despite "cultural" differences
- Case of multi-site projects, use of remote working tools
- Determine a motivating timetable and evaluate the results
Further information
Teaching method
The pedagogy is based on:
- alternating contributions, workshops and exchanges with participants in a peer group
- scenarios prepared or based on learning cases
speakers
Solange Hemery Jauffret, Orsys Formation