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  Leadership Skills
for Achieving Project Success Through Motivation and Inspiration

Leadership and project management are two distinctly different yet complimentary skills. Both are necessary for today's changing and complex business environment. While project management skills ensure that processes—such as planning, scheduling, estimating, budgeting and staffing—are working effectively, leadership skills provide the driving force that creates project success.

Leaders have a project vision and know how to align people with their goals. They provide the structure, as well as motivation, to tune team performance and inspire their team to achieve project objectives. A project manager who enables teams to work together can deliver results faster, better and more cost effectively.

Influencing others, harnessing the social and emotional potential of your team, and inspiring a diverse team to work together are all critical competencies for today's project managers.

The following courses will help you develop the leadership abilities needed for achieving project success.

Prerequisite Courses
If you haven't mastered the project management fundamentals, we recommend you take one of these two courses before taking courses to improve specific leadership skills:

Project Management: Skills for Success
Course 296 • 4 Days

Project Management for Software Development
Course 340 • 4 Days

Leadership Courses
Project Leadership: Building High-Performance Teams
Course 346 • 4 Days
You will learn how to:
  • Develop the leadership skills to build and sustain high-performing project teams
  • Develop effective team performance through the Leadership Services Model (LSM)
  • Build a strong team identity through vision, purpose and commitment
  • Foster positive and productive team communication and define ground rules
  • Protect the team and convert conflicts into advantages that promote high performance
  • Maximise your leadership abilities when you return to your organisation
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Leadership Skills:
Building Success Through Teamwork

Course 222 • 3 Days
You will learn how to:
  • Develop your teams to maximise their strengths and enhance productivity
  • Optimise organisation and work design for success in service delivery teams
  • Motivate your team with effective performance measurement
  • Integrate your leadership responsibilities, competencies and behaviours into your management role
  • Leverage the complementary skills and styles of your team
  • Eliminate barriers and chokepoints that block teamwork
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Emotional Intelligence: Achieving Leadership Success
Course 3411 • 3 Days
You will learn how to:
  • Leverage Emotional Intelligence (EI) to improve your effectiveness as a leader
  • Identify the core competencies of Emotional Intelligence
  • Gain an honest and accurate awareness of your EI strengths and weaknesses
  • Achieve greater personal effectiveness through self-management tools and techniques
  • Harness the social and emotional potential of your team to improve performance
  • Integrate and apply EI to develop and transform your personal and professional potential
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Influence Skills:
Getting Results Without Direct Authority

Course 294 • 4 Days
You will learn how to:
  • Apply influence strategies to gain commitment from others and foster collaboration
  • Define desired outcomes for win-win results
  • Dynamically adjust your approach to others to gain buy-in
  • Achieve goals by enhancing trust and cooperation
  • Deal effectively with challenging behaviours to overcome resistance and inertia in others
  • Use knowledge and competence rather than position and status to influence others
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Other Courses You Might Be Interested In
Managing Global Projects
Course 3620 • 3 Days

Making Successful Business Decisions:
Getting It Right the First Time

Course 908 • 3 Days

Communication Skills: Results Through Collaboration
Course 292 • 3 Days

Facilitation Skills
Course 905 • 3 Days

Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving
Course 284 • 3 Days

The Art of Coaching:
Enabling Employees to Achieve Their Potential

Course 224 • 2 Days

Responding to Conflict:
Creating Resolution and Cooperation

Course 904 • 3 Days
 
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