Project Manager Leadership Training: Building and Leading High-Performance Teams

This Project Management Leadership course helps you transition into an effective project team leader who can inspire a diverse team to work together and deliver customer success. Learn how to build a high-performing team through an immersive class that covers project leadership best practices, models, videos, and assessments.

Project Manager Leadership Training: Building and Leading High-Performance Teams Benefits

• Project Manager Leadership Training will prepare you to:

  • Manage internal and external influences that affect team performance. 
  • Increase productivity by challenging your processes and motivating your people. 
  • Develop team identity and empower others. 
  • Foster productive team communication and effectively manage conflict. 
  • Test your knowledge in the included end-of-course exam. 
  • Continue learning and face new challenges with after-course one-on-one instructor coaching. 

• Project Manager Leadership Training Prerequisites

  This course has been categorized as advanced to represent the other side of project management — project leadership. Therefore, before taking this course, you are not required to be a senior project/program manager. 

Project Manager Leadership Course Outline

Module 1: Assessing Your Leadership Skills

Measuring yourself against the Leadership Services Model

• Soliciting 360-degree feedback
• Working with a mentor and personal board of directors
• Examining your support network and sphere of influence

Managing your emotional intelligence

• Developing your self-awareness and social awareness
• Applying emotional intelligence to project management

Module 2: Building a Team Identity and Purpose

Fostering a team state of mind

• Considering the stages of development
• Turning hard work into an enjoyable experience

Defining the future

• Clarifying and communicating your vision and goals
• Collaborating on project objectives
• Empowering others to act

Module 3: Developing Productive Teams

Crafting a healthy, winning culture

• Agreeing on standards and ground rules
• Encouraging feedback and nurturing the emotional intelligence of your team
• Creating psychological safety through mutual respect

Overcoming communication barriers

• Clarifying roles, responsibilities, and boundaries
• Learning the language of leadership
• Turning conflict to your advantage

Module 4: Optimizing Efficiency through Motivated Teams

Thinking outside of the box

• Challenging the process
• Making decisions efficiently and effectively

Examining the art and science of motivation

• Balancing personal needs with organizational goals
• Adapting leadership to individual work styles
• Building ownership through delegation
• Managing virtual, remote, and global teams
• Recognizing the importance of physical space

Module 5: Monitoring External and Internal Risks

Combating the dangers of outside influences

• Assessing the organization's capacity for change
• Balancing project constraints and avoiding burnout
• Managing project subjectives and office politics
• Dealing with daily distractions and disruptions

Recognizing success

• Celebrating success and failure
• Building morale
• Applying "Lessons Learned"

Reaching the next level

• Assuming responsibility and holding each other accountable
• Achieving autonomy and self-management
• Setting smart challenges

Module 6: Building a Project Leadership Best-Practices Toolkit

• Generating your personal leadership action plan
• Creating your customized project leadership framework