10am - 11am PT / 11am - 12pm MT / 12pm - 1pm CT / 1pm - 2pm ET
People skills make projects happen! Learn to communicate, motivate and negotiate, particularly in the absence of line authority. The organizational structure, competing responsibilities, shifting priorities and varying communication styles all complicate getting the job done. Possessing the soft skills to lead projects is critical for success.
This webinar addresses the leadership tools to meet project management challenges, especially to develop awareness in the following areas:
- Getting projects started effectively
- Gaining explicit commitments
- Managing up the organization
- Managing stakeholders in general
- Connecting with others through purpose and vision statements
- Clarifying roles and responsibilities
- Communicating across functions
- Achieving cooperative behaviors
- Identifying and using personal power
- Leading through change
The objective is to broaden existing leadership skills and establish new ones. Learn how to optimize project success in a project based organization.
This webinar is intended for project team members, project managers, and other professionals who have responsibility for establishing, influencing, or getting results through project-based work. Its premise is that leadership is about transforming ideas and concepts into action and getting desired results. Any person at any level can exercise this approach to leadership.
RANDALL L. ENGLUND is an executive consultant for theEnglund Project Management Consultancy. Many of his insights and experiences are found in the www.svprojectmanagment.com blog sponsored by the University of California Santa Cruz Extension. He develops and delivers custom workshops and consulting engagements world-wide, especially for SeminarsWorld sponsored by the Project Management Institute. Randy’s experience stems from 22 years at Hewlett-Packard Company, where he was a senior project manager and part of the corporate Project Management Initiative to lead continuous improvement of project management across the company, and he was a program manager in high tech new product development. Previously he conducted projects for General Electric Medical Systems for 10 years.
In training engagements, Randy includes the behavioral and organizational aspects that increase the probability of optimizing results from a portfolio of projects. His interactive style encourages the exploration of action-oriented practices that are immediately applicable to project-based work. In his work around the world, Randy provides management and leadership awareness at a systemic level through his presentations, workshops, conference papers, and writings. He is the co-author of Creating an Environment for Successful Projects: Second Edition, Creating the Project Office, and Project Sponsorship. Randy also contributed chapters in other books, such as the AMA Handbook of Project Management: Second Edition, and articles in magazines, such as Projects & Profits.