Leadership and Soft Skills in projects

• increase your success in challenging projects

• be able to optimally define and assert your leadership role in projects

• Procedures to create a working environment that enables motivation, creativity and personal responsibility

• To strengthen your soft skills to better manage relationships between stakeholders and project team members

• How to apply the right management style for your project

• How you can achieve an impact without hierarchical leadership power

• How to give authentic and appreciative feedback

• Identify the strengths and weaknesses of your project organization using the Belbin® team role model and receive personally structured feedback

• Recognize resistance and conflicts and deal with them effectively

• Create a working environment that enables effective collaboration

• The positive leadership and servant leadership models for projects provide you with a tool to successfully develop your team

• Successfully shape change processes

• Common pitfalls in project management

• Fundamentals of systemic thinking

• Basic requirements for effective collaboration

• Team development and team dynamics

• Focus in the project business, role clarification

• Diversity and multi-perspectivity

• Communicating transparently

• Authentic and appreciative feedback

• Leadership models such as situational leadership style or lateral leadership

• Positive leadership and servant leadership in projects

• Motivation and power factors

• Retrospectives and learning

• Sustainable decision-making

• Effective design of project roles

• Belbin® team roles

• Conflict management: conflict diagnosis and conflict resolution

• Dealing with resistance

• The training conveys the contents by using short presentations on the theory and practical examples to show it in practice

• The important topics are worked on, with deeper analysis done in small groups

• The training is conducted in classroom training, which allows an interactive exchange between the participants

It is easier to transfer what has been learnt into everyday life if you have someone to reflect on a topic of interest. Therefore, we include one hour of coaching in the training, The coaching must be used within two months after the course.

The internationally recognised certifications in project management according to the IPMA® guidelines demonstrate mastery of the three areas of competence practices, context and people. Attending the two trainings "Methodology and Instruments" and "Leadership and Team" provides an ideal basis for successful certification according to the current IPMA Competence Baseline (ICB4). The textbook "Handbook Projectmanagement - agile, classical and hybrid", used in the training, covers all topics relevant for IPMA certification. The selection and combination of the topics in the training is based on the requirements of IPMA®.