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Project Leadership: Build a Best-in-Class Project Team NEW!
2010 Dates: TBD
Special pricing and coaching support for intact project teams. New seminar discount also available. Please call for details.
Overview
UNC Executive Development has been working with leading project-driven organizations, helping to enhance great project management operations to address challenges arising during execution. What does this mean? Many organizations have moved to matrix and global project teams in order to streamline processes internally. They have invested in management techniques such as six sigma teams and gate reviews to create processes and practices that standardize schedules, budgets and planning activities. The result is a more effective and efficient project environment.
The obstacle that remains is when project ambiguity arises due to the challenge of managing critical project relationships both internally and externally, applying project management techniques in environments that are dynamic and undisciplined, and managing innovative projects that are different from past projects. The following are typical examples of situations that require additional project leadership capabilities:
- Leading global/matrix teams to reach effective decisions in a timely manner
- Creating alignment with contractors and outside organizations over whom you have limited or no direct influence
- Managing relationships with internal groups outside your direct control
- Leading projects through various gate reviews to identify critical challenges
- Managing customer expectations and relationships throughout the project lifecycle
Who should attend?
Engineers, scientists and business leaders responsible for leading projects as well as functional team members who support these projects will benefit from this seminar.
Key Benefits
- Understand the fundamental challenges faced by project teams
- Identify leadership techniques that effectively address challenges such as:
- Communication skills
- Conflict management
- Power/influence inside the organization as well as externally
- Decision-making in teams
- Virtual/geographically-dispersed team management
- Receive individual feedback regarding your inherent preferences and styles and how these create both strengths and weakness in leading projects
- Enhance your skills to positively impact the project environment
- Develop a plan for implementing both personal and project leadership changes
In addition to our 3-day open enrollment seminar, we have the ability to customize a program to meet your specific project leadership goals. Over the past five years, UNC Executive Development has partnered with a number of clients from major organizations in biotech, chemicals, energy, and high-tech industries to deliver customized project leadership programs. Please call 1-800-UNC-EXEC for details on how UNC can work with your team.
Additional Information
**David Greer quoted from: Abdelal, Rawi, “Journey to Sakhalin: Royal Dutch/Shell in Russia (A)” HBS 9-704-040
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