Project Management

Advanced Leadership for Project Managers: Building and Motivating High-Performing Teams

A structured, applied course in advanced project leadership — designed to be used the week you return.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
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Advanced Leadership for Project Managers: Building and Motivating High-Performing Teams
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

Stakeholders withdraw support for advanced project leadership quietly before they withdraw it formally. A schedule for this part of project and portfolio delivery without a critical path is a wish list with dates. Field experience suggests that the barrier to better the wider project and portfolio delivery agenda is rarely technical. The method assumes participants will be challenged on their handling of advanced project leadership and prepares them for it. The programme builds the judgement to know which parts of this strand of project and portfolio delivery to standardise and which to leave flexible. The material serves both public bodies and commercial organisations dealing with the project and portfolio delivery capability. The version of advanced project leadership described in the manual and the version practised on the floor tend to diverge over time. Participants leave with a method for this aspect of project and portfolio delivery, not a set of opinions about it. The course ends by identifying what the participant will stop doing to make this strand of project and portfolio delivery sustainable.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Design the governance and decision rights for advanced project leadership.

  • Reduce avoidable variation in how advanced project leadership is carried out across teams.

  • Plan resource and capacity for advanced project leadership against other commitments.

  • Build a schedule for advanced project leadership with a genuine critical path and realistic durations.

  • Manage dependencies between advanced project leadership and other initiatives.

  • Set the minimum documentation for advanced project leadership that is genuinely necessary, and stop there.

  • Agree the first three actions on advanced project leadership that will be taken on returning to work.

Who Should Attend

  • Team members preparing to take on project responsibility for advanced project leadership.

  • Project managers responsible for advanced project leadership.

  • Project and programme managers whose delivery depends on advanced project leadership.

  • Planners and schedulers building the timeline for advanced project leadership.

  • Staff seconded into improvement work on advanced project leadership.

  • Risk managers supporting advanced project leadership.

Course Modules

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01

Advanced project leadership: procurement, contracts and suppliers

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Closing out advanced project leadership and capturing what was learned

  • Identify where judgement in advanced project leadership is legitimate and where it is not.
  • Identify the data already collected that bears on advanced project leadership.
  • Identify the critical path through advanced project leadership and the float elsewhere.
  • Distinguish symptoms from causes when advanced project leadership underperforms.

Session 2Keeping stakeholders of advanced project leadership genuinely supportive

  • Draft the minimum viable delivery plan for advanced project leadership.
  • Manage supplier performance on advanced project leadership against contract, not goodwill.
  • Write the scope statement for advanced project leadership including explicit exclusions.
  • Prepare the recovery plan for advanced project leadership before it is needed.
02

Advanced project leadership: handover, benefits and lessons

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Estimating advanced project leadership without anchoring on the answer wanted

  • Build reporting on advanced project leadership that surfaces problems while they are small.
  • Test the procedure for advanced project leadership against a realistic scenario.
  • Map the handovers in advanced project leadership between functions and secure them.
  • Establish the boundary of advanced project leadership and record what sits outside it.

Session 2The cost of advanced project leadership and how to present it

  • Arrange the handover of advanced project leadership so capability survives staff changes.
  • Anticipate the objections advanced project leadership will raise and prepare the answers.
  • Estimate the resource advanced project leadership requires to run as designed.
  • Measure progress on advanced project leadership by value earned, not tasks ticked.
03

Advanced project leadership: change control and variation

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Reviewing advanced project leadership when nothing has gone wrong

  • Map stakeholders of advanced project leadership by influence and current level of support.
  • Remove steps in advanced project leadership that add effort without adding assurance.
  • Archive the decision record for advanced project leadership so successors understand it.
  • Define the decision gates for advanced project leadership and what evidence each requires.

Session 2Decision gates on advanced project leadership that can actually stop it

  • Identify single points of dependency in advanced project leadership and reduce them.
  • Estimate advanced project leadership using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
  • Review at each gate whether advanced project leadership should continue at all.
  • Check that records of advanced project leadership answer the questions likely to be asked.
04

Advanced project leadership: risk identification, quantification and ownership

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The risks to advanced project leadership nobody wants to raise

  • Rehearse the briefing on advanced project leadership that would follow an incident.
  • Agree the escalation threshold for advanced project leadership in advance.
  • Define how the benefit from advanced project leadership will be measured after closure.
  • Plan handover of advanced project leadership to the team that will operate it.

Session 2Pricing every change to advanced project leadership

  • Review whether advanced project leadership is aligned with the objectives of the project.
  • Set the change control process for advanced project leadership and require cost and time impact.
  • Plan the sequence in which improvements to advanced project leadership will be introduced.
  • Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of advanced project leadership.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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