Course: Leadership of the Project Director

January 30 - 31, 2020

March 23 - 24, 2020

June 25 - 26, 2020

November 26 - 27, 2020

Project Director Leadership

General informations

Goal

At the end of this training, learners will be able to:

• to identify their dominant leadership style,
• to discover the levers of individual and common motivations,
• to build its version and share it,
• to mobilize all project stakeholders to develop cooperation.

Prerequisites

No specific prior knowledge required

Public

Project director

levels

improvement

Program

descriptive

Exercising effective leadership

• Understand the characteristics of leadership
• Know how to identify the four main styles of leadership and identify your dominant style
• Understand the leader's power of influence
• Distinguish power, power and authority
• Understand the characteristics of a successful project team
• Identify the stages of development of your team
• Evaluate the know-how and motivation of each employee
• Anticipate difficulties: anticipate possible scenarios and the best alternatives

Foster team cohesion

• Understanding how teams work: the characteristics of a project team, its dynamics
• Defining the benefits of team cohesion
• Develop team membership: methods and tools
• Take into account the different environments of team members and their organizations
• Establish operating rules: conducting meetings, debriefing,

Lead your project team

• Define objectives for the team that are motivating factors
• Delegate and empower
• Define with each employee their mission and role in the team, identify individual skills
• Unify dispersed teams

Foster productive confrontation, neutralize destructive conflict

• Make decisions as a team, respond to objections and use them positively
• Anticipate and resolve destabilizing factors, know how to rebound
• Present a team project, the role of each team member
• Integrate new employees, manage departures
• Foster active collaboration
• Meeting challenges, creating change, innovating
• Know the motivational levers to empower its stakeholders
• Build and inspire a shared vision, give meaning to actions and projects
• Communicate to mobilize your project team
• Establish a climate of trust, define cooperation objectives
• Take inspiration from Agile methods
• Encourage, recognize individual contributions, celebrate success

The challenges of transversal management

• Lead without hierarchical power
• Foster collaborative work and collective intelligence, set up a planned verification system
• Involve the management of the company on its project
• The management of IT or business "punctual contributors", their place in the project team
• Work in multidisciplinary teams, despite "cultural" differences
• Case of multi-site projects, use of remote working tools
• Determine a motivating timetable and evaluate the results

Further information

Teaching method

The pedagogy is based on:

• alternating contributions, workshops and exchanges with participants in a peer group
• scenarios prepared or based on learning cases

speakers

Solange Hemery Jauffret, Orsys Formation