Soft Skills for
Project Managers

Course Overview

Teams need leaders and it is your job to guide your project team towards success. Together with you, we go through examples of common situations that are encountered by teams and you will learn how to handle problems and adjust team dynamics. Increase and maintain flexibility, motivation, commitment and personal development to easen up your own project work by keeping common conflicts at a minimum and benefit from the advantages of working in an effective team. 

Project Teams can be characterized as rather temporary than permanent. Your challenge is to form them into an efficient team by identifying skills, building harmony, and retaining the team focus – all within the tight time frame of your project. For you, team building, leadership, and communication skills are key factors for successful project delivery. Here your life experience counts alot, but things can often be improved further by having a good set of tools at hand.

And this course will definetly put some new tools into your hands, freshly built from theoretical background, practical exercises and latest researches on team management. Learn how to enable people to work together, how to handle conflicts and how to provide solutio

Your Benefits

• Understand the complexities and challenges of building effective Project Teams
• Be familiar with group dynamics and the most common leadership techniques
• Acquire Best Practices and effective techniques for communicating, problem solving, negotiating, handling project meetings, and managing conflicts
• Assess your personal strengths and weaknesses, and prepare for improvement

Who should attend?

• Team Members
• Executives & Line Managers
• Senior Project Managers
• Program Managers
• Portfolio Managers
• Anyone else whose work is dependent on working with others

What you can expect

• Interactive Lecture
• Exercises
• Discussion
• Case Study
• Coaching

Prerequisites

None