Project Leadership: Driving Value through Efficiency

Unlock the power of effective project leadership and drive greater efficiency, productivity, and value with our three-day Project Leadership course. This course combines expert-led lectures, dynamic class discussions, and realistic case studies to deliver practical leadership strategies that translate directly to project efficiency and success.

Gain the skills to confidently lead in any project environment — traditional, agile, or hybrid. Through clear, actionable insights, you'll master the core elements of leadership: understanding your team, crafting a compelling vision, driving change, and influencing outcomes that promote project efficiency. This course goes beyond theory, applying emotional intelligence to real-world scenarios such as decision-making, managing mistakes, and effective negotiation. You’ll learn how to lead with clarity and adaptability, optimizing project execution and efficiency while accelerating value delivery. The program culminates in a hands-on capstone team exercise, reinforcing key leadership principles and equipping you with practical techniques to drive project efficiency and deliver impactful results.

Empower yourself to lead with confidence, influence, and efficiency — and elevate your ability to deliver value across every project you lead!

Project Leadership: Driving Value through Efficiency Benefits

• In this course, you will:

  • Apply an unambiguous definition of leadership to your project initiatives
  • Distinguish yourself as a leader in traditional and Agile projects
  • Succeed in the project execution phase
  • Influence, negotiate, and handle mistakes through the lens of emotional intelligence
  • Earn 17 PMI PDUs
  • Learning Tree end-of-course exam included

• Prerequisites

  Project Management experience and experience working in Agile environments.

Project Leadership: Drive Efficiency & Value Training Outline

Learning Objectives

What Is Leadership, Anyway?

• Followers
• Vision
• A Model for Change
• Influencing
• Leaders Instill a Culture
• Proof of Leadership: Iconic Leaders
• Proof of Leadership: Business Leaders
• Proof of Leadership: You

 Leadership and Project Management

• Goal Setting
• The Difference Between Traditional and Agile Approaches
• The Goal of Innovation
• The Fifth Discipline and Double-Loop Learning
• Project Management Paradigm Shift
• System Characteristics Drive the Change Model

 Traditional Project Management

• The Function of the Work Breakdown Structure
• WBS Realities
• WBS Data Dictionary
• WBS Dictionary Example
• The Network Diagram
• Estimating Methods
• The Critical Path
• Milestones
• PERT Analysis of Critical Path

 Agile Project Management

• The Agile Leadership Model
• The Agile Manifesto
• Iterative/Incremental Methodologies
• Agile Risk Management—Timeboxing
• Leadership in the Scrum
• Structural Empowerment
• Psychological Empowerment
• Hybrid Agile—The Leader’s Perspective
• Agile Feature Estimation: Avoiding Groupthink
• Agile Features Are Defined by User Stories
• Using Personas to Better Understand Users

 Project Execution

• Project Management Realities
• The Core Belief
• Monitor and Control
• Headlight vs. Rearview-Mirror Metrics
• Agile Metrics for Leaders
• Risk Management
• Communicating Issues

 Leading a Project Portfolio Strategy

• Project Portfolio Management
• Defining the Organizational Objectives
• Prioritizing Projects
• Addressing Risk in Financial Decisions
• Qualitative Risk Assessment
• Best-Case/Worst-Case-Scenario Analysis
• Graphical Presentation

 Emotional Intelligence

• Emotional Intelligence for the Project Leader
• Influencing Skills for the Project Leader
• Factors Driving Influence Success
• Influencing Techniques
• Handling Mistakes
• Decision Making
• Negotiation Framework
• Negotiation Sins in Project Management
• The Skills and Techniques of Negotiation