Leadership, Teamworking & Communication: Course data sheet

Course Name:

Teamworking, Communication & Leadership

Description:

Working in projects teams can be very demanding. Some of those demands can be reduced, if team members have good teamworking skills. It is also said that communication is the lifeblood of projects – it is also one of every project's greatest challenges.

This course will demonstrate the fundaments of teamworking, leadership and communication, and help team members improve the management of communication, including better recognition of communication risk.

Course Duration

1-2 days

Intended for (who)

Project teams members, team leaders, project managers and analysts, project office managers and staff.

Course objectives:

•  To improve project organisation and teamworking
•  To raise awareness of the criticality of communication and improve inter-personal and team based communication skills
•  To develop leadership and teamworking qualities and skills

Course Session:

Aims/ objectives / purpose / benefits

Introduction & Overview

•  Course Objectives

Improving Project Organisation

•  Principles of Project Organisation: developing your organisational model
•  Co-Location: benefits & challenges
•  Developing ‘real' teams
•  What makes a real team?
•  Selecting balanced teams: avoiding the ‘deadly embrace'
•  Team Based Roles: bringing clarity to team based roles and responsibilities on complex projects
•  Developing Customer Relationships
•  Developing Supplier / Partner Relationships

Communication

•  Communication risks and challenges on all projects
•  Recognising weak spots
•  Improving the capture and presentation of key project data
•  Key personal communication skills in teams
•  Recognising and managing communication risks

Teamworking

•  Best and worst of teamworking
•  Attributes of team members and team leaders
•  Conducting and contributing to peer reviews positively
•  Improving personal teamworking skills
•  Managing meetings: reducing their incidence and improving their effectiveness

Leadership

•  What is a ‘leader' and how do you know when you've got one?
•  Being an effective leader
•  Developing ownership
•  Managing conflict
•  Using the tools of teambuilding to your advantage
•  Team charters: using these productively

Once attended this course

•  you will be able to participate more productively in teams