Description:

This one-day course on leadership and teams in project management covers an essential project skill.

Teams have long been recognised as offering the potential of large gains in productivity and efficiency. The working together in a collaborative and supportive environment can allow each team member to excel and produce more than they could if working separately. But it is not automatic that performance goes up when people are grouped together. In fact, in many cases performance can be reduced. The team therefore has to be well formed, well managed for the purpose of organised and structured working, and well led so that it can feel free to challenge the status quo in the search for continuous improvement.

Every team must have a purpose and have its team members. The person who identifies the purpose and the team members is the external team leader, whereas the person who actually leads the team is the internal leader. There are also different types of team, basically the internal teams formed in-house and the external teams formed from many companies. And under these two broad categories, there are again different types of teams. Some of these teams are exceptional performers and others are simply good performers, but without the management and leadership they require, all will be just groups of people working together.

The performance of the team is very much up to the team. The manner in which teams develop is related to the willingness to be productive. Therefore the environment which creates this willingness has to be recognised and understood. In this, each team may be different. This is the nature of teams, a dynamic situation focused on people with a purpose and in a productive environment created by themselves with the help of others. It is the productivity which determines whether a team is a team. The level of productivity determines the type of team.

Teams can be highly productive and effective if they are well conceived, set up, organised are led. The complexity of this whole process must be managed from the start to the end.

An Attendance Certificate will be provided at the end of this skill course.

Vital Benefits:

Teams are vital on projects because they can be developed for the purpose in hand. The project concept is to do with uniqueness and this is no truer than with the output of the resources. Teams help project managers manage that complexity. This course provides the following vital benefits:

• An understanding of the modern team concept
• Essential leadership of teams
• An understanding of the management of teams
• Forming teams and measuring performance
• Keeping teams productive
• Continuous motivation
• Reforming teams and keeping them relevant

Objectives:

The understanding of teams and the leadership of teams is vitally important in managing successful projects. Teams also provide a more dynamic management style focused on the unique issues which projects present. In this course, it is our objectives to provide:

• A thorough understanding of what makes teams work and how they are managed
• A clear understanding of leadership as related to teams
• An understanding of how teams can be kept effective and relevant
• An understanding of the dynamics which can indicate team effectiveness – the performance
• A clear understanding of team roles
• The tools needed to create teams capable of high performance

Topics:

The course covers the following topics:

• Leadership
• Team roles and responsibilities
• Team objectives and other motivators
• Measurement of performance
• Communication for teams, managing conflict and essential negotiation
• Team Dynamics
• Different teams and structures
• High performing teams and their structure

Who to Attend:

Projects cannot succeed without successful teams. We would recommend this course to the following project people:

• The client staff
• The project managers
• The project staff
• Line managers
• The professional services teams
• The senior supply chain managers
• Everyone who wants to know more about teams
• Anyone who sees project management as a career