High EQ Project Leadership
Course Aim
- Learn the difference between leading and managing projects
- Develop the mind-set and skill-set required to effectively align, engage, motivate and influence project staff and stakeholders
- Apply effective techniques for dealing with stress and change
- How to effectively model the behaviours oof leaders with high levels of personal motivation and energy
Benefits of Attending
For the organisation:
Managers report that participants who attend this program
- Demonstrate greater awareness of and prioritise the effective engagement of project staff and other key stakeholders
- Engage their stakeholders more proactively and effectively
- Deal with change more positively
- Make it a priority to align stakeholders on a common vision and purpose
- Create more time to coach and grow their people
- Return to work re-inspired and ready to lead
For The participant:
Previous participants report that attending this program:
- Shifted their mind-set about their role and capacity to lead, grow and inspire their project staff and stakeholders
- Feel more confident and have the tools to engage and empower their staff
- Gave them the confidence to lead rather than just manage processes and tasks
- Developed a greater sense of personal purpose in their career
- Strengthened their self-esteem to be accountable for delivering the desired project and program outcomes
- Developed greater courage to expand their comfort zone and to realise their highest potential
- Develop a career-sustaining networks of peers
What It Covers
The following is the content of the workshop:
- Attributes of Effective Project Leaders
- Differentiating project leadership from project management
- Attributes of effective Project Leaders
- Emotional intelligence and leadership
- Inspirational and Outcome-oriented Project Leadership
- Differentiating Outcomes from Outputs
- Defining an inspiring project vision
- Managing expectations
- Breaking through boundaries for effective Stakeholder Engagement
- Identifying and getting the right stakeholders on board
- Engaging across departmental and organisational boundaries
- Understanding and meeting your stakeholders’ needs
- Trust and Influence
- Breaking through the barriers to effective communication
- The four steps to influence
- Establishing rapport with your stakeholders
- Making diversity work and negotiating Win-Win outcomes
- Dimensions of diversity
- Making diversity work in your projects
- Active listening and negotiating win-win outcomes
- Setting your team up for Success!
- Getting the right people on board
- Aligning on the project’s vision and values
- Running an effective project kick-off session
- Motivating high performance from project staff
- Setting your staff up to succeed
- Providing effective feedback
- Leadership Styles and Creating an Empowered Project Team
- Leadership styles and impact on project team culture
- Developing leadership versatility
- Keeping things on Track
- Keeping a finger on the project pulse
- Running effective meetings
- Creating a sense of urgency
- Personal Resilience and Mastering Energy
- Channelling and projecting positive energy
- Projecting certainty through change
- The Art of Leadership in a Project Management Context
- Understanding and tapping into the 6 Human Needs
- The art of Leadership
Delivery Strategy
The learning has been structured as a 3-day interactive workshop featuring case studies, discussion, break out rooms, group activities, audio-visual presentations, role plays and anecdotes.
Formal Certification
At the completion of this program, the participant will be eligible to receive a Certificate of Participation from EQ Strategist.
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