The Hard Truth About Soft Skills

Course Content:

“It’s All About Me and You” – Relationship Awareness®
o The Strength Deployment Inventory
o Identify your Motivational Values
o Discover your Team Members' Motivational Values
o Understand the Differences of the Various Motivational Value Systems and Valued Relating Styles

Team Assembly and Kickoff
o Stages of Team Development
o The SHAPED Team Model

It All Starts With YOU!
o Defining Leadership
o Leader Behaviors
o Portrait of Personal Strengths® and Strength Management
o Understand Team Needs

Conflict Management
o Sources of Conflict
o Stages of Conflict
o The Strength Deployment Inventory Conflict Model®
o Negotiation Skills

Project Kickoff
o Kickoff Meeting Purpose
o Meeting Agenda & Content
o Team Norms
o Team Charter

Team Management
o Addressing Skill Gaps
o Building Trust
o Working Effectively with Various Stakeholders

Making Tough Decisions
o Decision Making Processes
o Tips to Making Decisions
o Assessing Resource Performance
o Vendor Relationships
o Escalation
o Terminating a Project

Creativity & Team Motivation
o Creativity Essentials
o Strategies for Creativity
o Motivation
o Building "fun" into a Project