Project Management Certificate Series
Noncredit Course
Managing Project Teams: How To Create and Sustain High-Performing Project Teams
Event ID: P09762
Info: Nov 13-14 • Thu/Fri • 8:00am-3:00pm • 2 mtgs • UHM Krauss 012 (Yukiyoshi Room) • $995 (General), $895 (with Controlling Project Risks), $795 (with Sep 16-18 Project Management series and Controlling Project Risks) • (12 PDU)
With: Alice Wilken
Effective project managers gain results, even when working with people over whom they have little authority or influence. Achieving results on any project demands soft, tactful, yet powerfully important leadership skills. It`s the "art" of project management. Develop teams on which everyone in the organization wants to participate. Using role-playing, teach-backs and other participant-centered exercises, gain a practical understanding of the human resource management and communications management knowledge areas as defined by Project Management Institute (PMI) in the PMBOK® Guide (2000).
Who can benefit most from this seminar?
- Director of project management
- Finance manager
- Project manager
- Process improvement manager
- Project management office manager
- Project team member, or
- Candidate for the project management professional (PMP) accreditation
Upon completion of this course:
- Establish yourself as a project leader of high performing teams
- Plan effective strategies to deal with organizational influences and politics
- Gain organizational buy-in to project roles & responsibilities
- Address team dynamics to engage team members for solutions
- Acquire staff and develop staff skills
- Distinguish and develop a true team of the group you were assigned
- Establish powerful team reward and recognition systems
- Define explicit communications protocols
- Market and sell your project through the project team
- Create excitement around project status, progress, and future plans
- Address project variances and manage conflict
- Develop a team with an outstanding reputation
Seminar Outline
- Project Management Essentials
- Essentials of project management, an overview of project management methodology
- Identifying the human resource management processes
- Identifying the communications management processes
- Assessing your project team
- Human Resource Management
- Organizational planning – understanding project interfaces, defining competencies and recognizing constraints
- Defining roles and responsibilities, team dynamics, staffing plans, and organizational charts
- Staff acquisition – negotiating for resources, pre-assigning staff, and getting staff on board
- Team development – team building activities, group problem solving, reward and recognition systems, collocation and training
- Communication Management
- Communications planning – understanding stakeholder and team requirements, communications technologies, and constraints to finalize the communications plan
- Information distribution – communication skills, information distribution methods, marketing, and PR for the project
- Performance reporting – status, progress, and future reporting
- Variance reporting and conflict management skills
- Administrative closure – team member performance reports and maximizing team productivity
Alice Wilken, MA in organizational management, The George Washington University, and BA, University of Northern Iowa, is also certified by ASQ as a Quality Auditor. Wilken is a process and project management advisor for Orion Development Group, with more than 15 years of experience providing consulting services in quality, project, and business process management.
Wilken has taught process mapping, analysis, and improvement techniques for corporate clients, including BAE Systems, BankUnited, Akzo Nobel, Qwest Telecommunications, Wyeth Bio-Pharma, Jacksonville Electric Authority, CNA Insurance, and the Texas Department of Insurance. She also teaches Orion`s suite of project management seminars.
Prior to becoming a consultant, she held management positions in corporate quality and logistics management for MCI. She has served as chair of the Telecommunications Industry Benchmarking Consortium, and conducted internal audits for successful IS9000 certification efforts. She began her career as a computer programmer and analyst with John Deere.