Organizing a project team
- Defining your position: Project manager, project team leader, supervisor, etc.
- Different types of management.
- Characteristics of a project team and its dynamic.
- Mapping the skills and resources needed for the project.
- Negotiating resources with your higher-ups and subcontractors.
- Assessing and planning upskilling activities.
Exercise
Questionnaire on your management style. Creating a skills matrix. Job description analysis.
Overseeing the project team in a cooperative climate
- Communicating the project goal.
- Ensuring a shared vision of the work to be performed.
- Setting operational rules within the team.
- Getting the team involved in planning tasks.
- Organizing discussions and sharing: Golden rules for an effective meeting.
- Planning meetings: Team meeting, project progress meeting, etc.
- Taking into account comments and suggestions to maintain motivation.
Role-playing
Delegation meeting roleplay.
Developing the team's skills to optimize performance
- Delegating and controlling.
- Ensuring unity in a remote project team.
- Successfully adding new employees.
- Guaranteeing unit cohesion throughout the project.
- Preparing and planning training exercises.
Role-playing
Role-playing various meetings.
Managing stakeholder relations
- Mapping stakeholders and their respective roles.
- Planning and overseeing communication.
- Matching up sponsors and key communicators.
- Organizing communications: Steering committees, useful progress reports, etc.
- Using indicators as tools for communicating and decision-making.
Exercise
Preparing a steering committee communication in a tense situation.
Leading and supporting the change
- Evaluating the changes that the project entails.
- Identifying the steps of the change and their impact on the relevant employees.
- Communicating with stakeholders.
- Building the change plan.
- Implementing the support plan.
Exercise
Identifying the change or modification. Analyzing the impacts. Writing a change management plan.