Project Leadership in Action

An Intensive 5-day Training Course

Project Leadership
in Action

Power, Influence & Negotiations

UPCOMING SESSIONS

Classroom sessions
DateVenueFee
19-23 May 2025Istanbul - Turkey$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
25-29 Aug 2025London - UK$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
09-13 Feb 2026Dubai - UAE$5,950RESERVE A SEAT

Training Course Overview

The Project Leadership in Action training course is designed to help you cultivate your unique leadership style and approach, enabling you to be highly effective in every decision and action as you lead your projects. The course emphasizes the development of personal skills to influence and persuade others, ensuring they meet their commitments and contribute to the success of your project.

Delivered by Anderson, this training focuses on essential skills and techniques for negotiating with customers, suppliers, and others over whom you may have limited direct control.

Throughout the course, you will explore the project environment and the dynamics of organizational politics. You will learn leadership strategies to foster commitment and high performance from all team members, methods for influencing key stakeholders, techniques for negotiating win-win solutions, and approaches for resolving conflicts.

This Anderson training course will feature:

  • Analysing and understanding yourself to become the best project leader you can be
  • Influencing people to deliver what they promise and make your projects successful
  • Enable project teams and team members to be highly productive
  • Work towards win-win negotiations in overcoming conflict
  • Establish your own personal leadership development strategy

Training Course Objectives

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

  • Appraise their own project leadership skills
  • Apply a range of concepts to utilize their power and to influence others
  • Manage corporate politics at the project level as well as the senior management level
  • Apply principles, guidelines and common methods of negotiation on projects
  • Select and apply appropriate leadership techniques to enhance the performance of project teams and team members

Designed for

The course will be of great value to anyone managing or involved in projects regardless of their professional background or industry

This Anderson training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Project managers
  • Team leaders
  • Project technical specialists
  • Workstream leaders
  • Project sponsors / Owners

Learning Methods

This Anderson training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. Over five days This training course is a highly interactive and practical. It uses a wide variety of concepts and models to explore effective leadership in projects. Case studies, diagnostic self-assessment questionnaires, role-playing activities and group exercises give delegates the opportunity to discover, practice and consolidate their learning. Delegates will have the opportunity to assess and discuss the application of the content to their own project and to devise their own personal developmental plan for each aspect of the course.

The Course Outline

Day One: The Project Environment and Organisational Politics
  • The nature and challenges of the project environment
  • Organisational politics and its impact on projects
  • How to promote a project-focused culture
  • Identifying and analyzing project stakeholders
  • The Need in a project environment for result-based leadership
Day Two: Project Leadership
  • Characteristics of an effective project leader
  • Project leadership styles and style flexibility
  • Applying leadership styles to individual performance management
  • Applying leadership styles to team development
  • Key project leadership skills: Communication and coaching
Day Three: The Use of Power and Influence in Project Leadership
  • How power and influence can create excellence in project leadership
  • Identifying and categorizing stakeholders in terms of attitude and power / influence
  • Sources of power for the project manager
  • Applying power and influence to project teams
  • Delegation and empowerment
Day Four: Negotiating Win-win Agreements
  • The need for negotiation on projects
  • The importance of win-win negotiations
  • The project leader as negotiator
  • Preparing & Conducting negotiations
  • Identifying and managing conflict
Day Five: Project Leadership Development
  • Establishing your own leadership style preferences
  • Devising a political strategy
  • Creating a positive project culture
  • Devising a project communication plan
  • Establishing negotiation requirements for your project

The Certificate

  • Anderson Certificate of Completion will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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