Project Leadership Laboratory

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3 day(s) , 18 instructional hours

About This Event:

Even though they can't be reduced to a tidy formula or equation, the principles of leadership are every bit as legitimate and learnable as those of finance or engineering. This powerful seminar will provide you with a blueprint for becoming a successful project leader, capable of motivating team members to achieve project objectives, not because they have to but because they want to. You'll have a unique hands-on look at project leadership going beyond theory to examine the real-world relationship among task, leader, and follower.

Recommended For:

This program will benefit project managers whose jobs involve engineering, data processing, information technology, construction, research and development, manufacturing, maintenance, corporate planning, finance, marketing, and quality. The principles you will learn can be applied to any kind of project.

You Will:

Discover what effective project leadership is really all about
Learn principles that - if followed - can greatly increase your project management success.
Discover techniques for matching individuals' talents to specific tasks, skills for delegating authority without losing control, physical approaches for quickly building rapport with other people, and tips for acquiring credibility in an unfamiliar setting.

Topics Covered Include:

Proven leadership principles with methods for both understanding and adopting them
Strategies for changing from the command-and-control role to that of facilitator
Proven steps for building the personal credibility required for effective leadership
Commonly encountered personality traits of both leaders and followers
Case studies of leadership in action, in both business and non-business settings
Leadership principles that can successfully be applied to numerous situations.

Additional Information:

This seminar is an elective for the Project Management Certificate.

It has been said that the first step to understanding others is to understand yourself. In this Laboratory, you will assess your own personality and disposition as a leader using the following instruments:
Kiersey Temperament Sorter (similar to the Myers-Briggs)
Thinking Styles Inventory
Leadership Practices Inventory
LEAD-Self Instrument
Emotional Intelligence Instrument.

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.