Project Manager’s Soft Skills

People execute projects!
Not computers, documents, and processes – just people!

Training Code:
pm.People
Duration:
2 days
Participants:
6-12 persons
Format:
Corporate

Description

Project Manager Soft SkillsCoordinating the work of a project team and the participation of key stakeholders in a project is the key to the project’s successful execution, the desired results, and their acceptance by customers. Project managers have many responsibilities: team management, team-building, internal negotiation, and stakeholder expectations management. Actually, the project manager takes the role of an agent between the project team and stakeholders.

Developing soft skills, which are so important for a project manager’s success, is the mission of this training. The list of these soft skills is given in PMBOK.

Key features

  • Determinant soft skills, which are considered to be important for project managers, help participants develop them.
  • Describes effective team-building with consideration of the personal qualities of each member.
  • Teaches how to manage stakeholder expectations during the project life-cycle.

Target audience

  • Current and future Project Managers.
  • Heads of departments involved in projects.
  • Portfolio and Program managers.

Topics

  1. Interpersonal skills theory.
  2. Interpersonal skills during the project life-cycle.
  3. Individual and group exercises for improving interpersonal skills.

The knowledge and skills

Participants will study and develop the next skills that help managers to analyze situations in a proper way and to interact with people:

  • Leadership.
  • Team-building.
  • Increasing team members’ motivation.
  • Effective communication.
  • Influencing the team.
  • Competent decision making.
  • Political and cultural awareness.
  • Effective negotiation.
  • Trust building.
  • Conflict management.
  • Coaching.
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