What Good Project Managers Do to Keep Out of Trouble!

Course Content:

The Leadership Lens: How project managers can leverage organizational knowledge to anticipate issues
o The four “Lenses”
o Collecting information for the Lenses
o Processing information for driving organizational change
o Using the lenses to assess project management tools
o Adjusting your “Lenses” as organizational change occurs

Intuition and Thinking – Capitalizing on both to expand your project foresight and avoid trouble
o The basis of intuition
o Intuitive processing
o Is it time to act on your intuition?
o Backing intuition with thought and facts
o A project manager’s decision making tool
o Thinking & Learning modes for decision making
o Performing intuition validation and analysis

Coaching for the project manager – Expanding your capabilities and avoiding trouble through the effective use of team members and stakeholders
o Define coaching
o Coaching applications within project management
o Coaching skills
o The power of questions
o Apply coaching skills to communication planning
o Coaching methods