This highly interactive, results-focused workshop is ideal for project team members,
practicing project managers and project leaders who need to achieve consistent project success through people. Participants will acquire
advanced interpersonal skills and learn consensus-building techniques that help provide clarity and garner commitment from team members, customers and management. These influential skills are instilled in participants through real-world scenarios, which continually reinforce the skills, techniques and concepts necessary to improve project results immediately upon return to the workplace.We encourage all clients to take advantage of the pre and post assessment aligned to this program. Please ask your account manager for more information about the workshop assessments.
This course earns you 12 Professional Development Units (PDUs) from the Project Management Institute (PMI) and 15 Continuous Professional Development (CPD) points from the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM)
Target Audience:
Those who must influence projects customers and other team members.
Pre-requisites:
Experience in project management; that is, for those who are indirectly or directly in a position to influence the outcome of a project.
At Course Completion:
Create and communicate a shared sense of purpose between the project team and stakeholders about your project.
Involve and engage key customers and use the views of others to create commitment and advance your project.
Prepare to make difficult requests and influence people with whom you do not have official power; for example, obtaining additional resources for your project.
Use a negotiation model that guarantees common understanding of the issue and creates
accountability for and ownership of the final solution. Listen to and resolve stakeholders’ concerns.
Use group facilitation skills to create a common reference point that includes the description of the business problem, where the
project is going, how to actualize it, and stakeholder involvement at any given point in the project.
Identify key stakeholders for the project to understand their assumptions and expectations and to get them involved at the right time.
Negotiate agreements that get your project started correctly and keep it moving along.
