Leadership and Teamworking Training

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 fundamentals of teamworking, leadership and communication, and help iimprove the management of communication, including better recognition of communication risk.

1 day

anyone working in project teams

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

• Key soft skills on projects
• Key challenges of communication
• Teamworking challenges and Principles

• Principles of Project Organisation: developing your organisational model
• Co-Location: benefits & challenges
• What makes a real team? - developing ‘real' teams
• 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 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

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

• 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