Managing a Project with Your Team

    

Summary:
According to the Project Management Institute (PMI), the only skill set more important to project managers than communicating effectively is negotiations and conflict resolution. Those skills can make the difference between a project that fails amid acrimony and resentment and a project that succeeds and builds great relationships within the team and across the organization.This workshop is designed to introduce participants to proven techniques for negotiating with project stakeholders to:-Acquire the necessary project resources-Build consensus on project scope and requirements-Create solid and clear understanding of the duties of team members and vendorsIn addition, this workshop extends the application of those skill sets to the creation of an effective and highly functioning project team.

Duration:
2 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
This workshop will be of value to:-Project managers-Project team members-Project stakeholders-PMO managers-Other organizational managers-Business analysts

Topics:

• Introduction to the Workshop
• Introduction to conflict management and positional negotiations
• Introduction to interest-based negotiations
• Crafting a strategy for interest-based negotiations
• Advanced topics in interest-based negotiations
• The challenges of building the project team
• Negotiating with the team and creating roles and responsibilities
• Creating high-performing project team
• Workshop wrap-up

Last Update: February 10, 2012