Project Leadership:
Building High-Performance Teams

Introducing Leadership Theories and Approaches

• Defining high-performing, winning teams
• Recognizing the challenges and complexities of project management
• Identifying the attitudes and actions of successful leaders
• Embracing the role of situational vs. positional leadership
• Redefining leadership with the Leadership Services Model

Assessing Your Leadership Skills

Measuring yourself against the Leadership Services Model

• Exploring your motives and priorities
• Appraising your values and attitude
• 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

Building a Team Identity and Purpose

Fostering a team state of mind

• Considering the stages of personal and team 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

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 and trust

Overcoming communication barriers

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

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

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

Guarding the team from itself

• Managing underperformers
• Recognizing the perils of Groupthink
• Defending the team against your own shortcomings

Sustaining High Performance

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
• Taking calculated risks

Building a Project Leadership Best-Practices Toolkit

• Beginning with the end in mind: Defining your success
• Mapping the leadership services to the project life cycle and applying it to your projects
• Generating your personal leadership action plan
• Creating your customized project leadership framework and defining next steps