Team-Based Project Management

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3 day(s) , 18 instructional hours

About This Event:

Project management is often a team effort. Improve your performance and the performances of others on your team through this event. You will learn to create a sense of product ownership, manage conflicts and make decisions as a team.

Recommended For:

Project managers involved in engineering, data processing, information technology, construction, research and development, manufacturing, maintenance, corporate planning, finance, marketing, and quality. The principles can be applied to any kind of project. The event is especially valuable for managers who are concerned with effectively managing projects for which the cost, schedule, and performance must meet rigid requirements.

You Will:

Understand how different personalities can contribute best to team performance without clashing
Determine how to handle decisions in your team (by consensus, majority vote, or autonomously)
Improve your own performance.

Topics Covered Include:

Creating a sense of project ownership and enthusiasm
Clarifying roles of team members so everyone knows exactly what he/she is supposed to be doing
Building a team climate that enhances innovation and promotes acceptable risk-taking
Managing conflicts to promote creativity without conflict becoming interpersonal
Determining what motivates almost any member of the team
Achieving objectives through teamwork
Gaining commitment of members to the project team and how to get it!
Defining what a team is really like
Organizing the project team and build commitment to project objectives
Building a team in matrix or subcontract environments
Dealing with unsatisfactory performance
Making decisions in teams
Leading the team-improvement process.

Additional Information:

This event is required for the Project Management Certificate.

Instructor(s):

Instruction Provided by the Lewis Institute, Inc.

The Lewis Institute has built a reputation for delivering practical, hands-on instruction that provides tools and techniques you can use immediately upon leaving the seminars to manage your own projects. The Lewis Institute insists that all of their instructors have real-world experience managing projects, so that they can go beyond the workbook content and answer your questions. Questions such as, "What to you do when....?" and "How do you handle a situation in which...?" These are the kinds of concerns that people have when they attend our programs; they want more than a textbook answer - they want "meat and potatoes."

You will also find the instructors very generous with their time in answering questions both during the class and after it is over. They freely give their email addresses to their clients and invite them to correspond with them. They treat you as a client, not a customer. The difference - a client is someone you care for, whereas a customer is simply someone who buys from you. The Lewis Institute is proud of their reputation and pleased to be working with the Office of Professional Development and the Industrial Extension Service to bring you the finest continuing education experience that you will find anywhere.