Project Management: People Management Skills (2 day)

Course Overview

A cohesive and motivated project team is essential for effective project management, and this course will show you how to create an environment that encourages team cooperation to help meet project deadlines. You will take a look at your current people skills, investigate real-life project examples and learn practical techniques to influence your team to achieve results.

Audience

All project managers looking to deliver projects on time, to budget, through effective management of people.

Skills Gained

Delegates will learn:

• Ways to prevent your projects costing more than expected
• Skills to deliver on time and as planned, through better management of people
• The confidence to influence, persuade and delegate to others
• The ability to balance task and people needs to help the project finish on time

Course Outline

• Managing team members remotely
• Cross cultural teams
• Working with part-time team members
• Using people for creative problem solving
• Creating the team culture and team building
• Coaching project team members
• Self-check 'my-people-skills'
• Effective delegation and how to avoid just telling or abdicating
• Share real people performance issues
• Team exercises
• Influencing people to achieve results
• Personal and team action plans, and how to link them to the success of the project

Project Management: People Management Skills (2 day) / PMPMS2B