This workshop is intended for associate project managers, project managers,
IT project managers, project coordinators, project analysts, project leaders,
team leaders, and project team leaders who want to learn a practical approach
for staffing projects There is no project management task that is more important
to do well. Effective staffing requires a solid understanding of what team
members will be required to do, any skill gaps that must be filled, perhaps in
unorthodox ways, and most of all, a deep appreciation of what personal
characteristics are essential for successful team operations.
This workshop is presented via lecture with numerous real world examples and
interactive exercises to enhance understanding and application.
The instructor for this course will be a project specialist with extensive
organizational experience, such as Bruce McGraw. This ensures that the audience
for this course, professionals responsible for managing and/or staffing projects
and project management offices, learn practical skills to help influence people
and decisions in a positive way. Each participant also receives a supporting
notebook with tips, exercises and references.
For maximum learning, preferred class size is 10 or fewer.
Key topics for this 3-day workshop include:
- Core problems of teams
- Characteristics of effective project teams
- Characteristics of effective project team leaders
- Selecting project team members
- Visualizing the goal
- Creating buy-in for goals
- Developing effective project team leaders
- Achieving hihg project team member participation
- Creating effective work conditions for project team success
- Effective facilitation skills to drive project team success
- Getting results through effective action plans
- Maintaining effectiveness of the project team
- Handling disruptive events
- Measuring and monitoring project team and results
- Best practices and tools for project team success
Contact us for more information about this workshop or to schedule it at your site.