Motivating and Managing Successful Project Teams

Course Description Overview

Course Number:
035902
Course Length:
2 days
Course Description Overview:
Project success often depends on choosing, motivating, and leading the project team. This course, based on PMI®’s PMBOK® Guide, Sixth Edition, focuses on improving the project manager’s human resource expertise, from initial planning through project closure. Participants will apply all course principles to a work-related case study taken directly from their work environment. At course completion, students will be able to develop a human resource plan, acquire optimal team members, and develop and motivate team members to accomplish project goals.
Course Objectives:
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Target Student:

This course is intended for:

· Project managers, project team leads, and project team members (with or without a currently-active PMI certification) who want to gain a deeper understanding of and hands-on experience with project leadership tools, techniques, and outputs, as documented in the PMBOK® Guide, Sixth Edition.

· Professionals who hold current PMP®, PgMP®, or other PMI credentials, who wish to earn Professional Development Units (PDUs) to maintain their PMI certification.

 

This course is not intended as direct preparation for any PMI certification exam.

Prerequisites:
To ensure that you benefit fully from this course, you should have experience managing, leading, or contributing to projects. A PMI project-management credential such as PMP® or CAPM® is recommended but not required.

 Author

Brian Salk, PhD, PMP®, PMI-ACP®, has over 30 years of experience, specializing in hands-on traditional and agile project management, training, and consulting. He manages a variety of consulting and training programs and projects for his organization and for a number of Fortune 500 customers. His global clientele includes organizations in North America, South America, Europe, and the Middle East. In addition to authoring courses, Dr. Brian frequently delivers project-management certification training (e.g., PMP®) and project-management best practices training. He is a four-time winner of the prestigious Worldwide Excellence in Training award, recognizing the 25 highest-rated instructors from a network of over 2,400. Dr. Brian earned his PhD from Fielding Graduate University and his Masters of Arts (Education) from the University of Michigan.

Course-specific Technical Requirements Software:
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Course-specific Technical Requirements Hardware:
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Certification reference (where applicable)
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Course Content:

Lesson 1: Project Resource Management Overview

  • Human Resource Skills for the Project Manager (or Agile Coach)
  • Conducting Icebreakers
  • Project Resource Management Overview
  • Project Resource Management Processes
  • Project Management Competencies (3.4)
  • Leadership: Politics, Power, and Getting Things Done (3.4)
  • Comparison of Leadership and Management (3.4.5)
  • Case Study Selection

 

Lesson 2: Planning Processes

  • Plan Resource Management
  1. Create a Resource Management Plan
  2. Create a Team Charter
  3. Create a Project Organizational Chart
  4. Create a Roles and Responsibilities Chart
  5. Determine Staffing Particulars
  6. Create a Resource Histogram
  • Estimate Activity Resources
  1. Create a Resource Breakdown Structure
  2. Estimate Activity Resources

 

Lesson 3: Executing Processes

  • Acquire Resources
  1. Perform a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
  2. Acquire Contract Resources
  3. Optimize Virtual Teams
  4. Best Practices
  5. Social Identity Theory
  6. Virtual Teams and Social Identity Theory
  7. Team Building Activities for Virtual Teams
  8. Cultural Diversity
  9. Individualism and Communitarianism
  10. Perspectives of Time and Space
  11. Fate and Personal Responsibility
  12. Face and Saving Face
  13. Body Language
  14. Create Resource Calendars
  • Develop Team
  1. Develop Project Team Overview
  2. Ground Rules
  3. Tuckman Ladder: Form, Storm, Norm, Perform, Adjourn
  4. Team Performance Assessment
  5. Team Building
  6. Team Building – Personality Profiles
  7. Collaborative Decision Making: Delphi, Majority and Plurality Decision Making
  8. Recognition and Rewards
  9. Expectancy Theory
  10. Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs
  11. Operant Conditioning
  • Manage Team
  1. Performance Problems
  2. Counsel Performance Problems
  3. Challenging Stakeholders
  4. Stress Management
  5. Sources of Project Stress
  6. Stress Management Techniques
  7. Conflict Management and Resolution
  8. Views of Conflict
  9. Sources of Project Management Conflict
  10. Conflict Resolution Survey
  11. Conflict Resolution Techniques
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