CEUs: 0.60    

• CONTRACTING ACADEMY

• Innovation, Creativity, and Breakthrough Thinking

• Project Management

• Process Design and Management

• Six Sigma, An Introduction

• Statistics Made Easy

There are two key aspects to project management—the technical aspect and the “people” aspect.  Seasoned project managers will tell you it is the “people” aspect that can make or break the project.

In this one-day program, you’ll learn all you need to know to successfully navigate issues of power, influence, and politics in project management.

Length: One 8-hour session

Instructor:  Roussas

Who should attend: Anyone involved in project management (formal or informal) who would like to deal more effectively with the human factors involved.

Benefits:

• Greater effectiveness as a project manager.

• Greater confidence and less stress.

• Enhanced credibility.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this program, you will be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of professional behavior in a business environment.

• Evaluate personal strengths and weaknesses with regard to power and influence.

• Identify forms of power and evaluate your own power level.

• Identify forms of influence and evaluate your own influence level.

• Identify forms of motivation and evaluate your own motivation form.

• Develop power, influence, and political skills.

• Evaluate political dynamics and the importance of managing people through influence.

• Discover ways to manage politics while learning practical guidelines for successful influencing.

Program Outline:

I.     The human factors in the organizational environment

II.    Power and you

     A.   Identify the forms of power and how to use them

     B.   Evaluate your power level

     C.   Attributes and outcomes of power

     D.   Develop plans to increase your power

III.  Influence and you

     A.   Identify the forms of influence and how to use them

     B.   Evaluate your influence level

     C.   Attributes and outcomes of power

     D.   Develop plans to increase your influence

IV.  Motivation and you

     A.   Identify the forms of motivation and how to use them

     B.   Evaluate your motivation level

     C.   Attributes and outcomes of motivation

     D.   Develop plans to increase your motivation form

V.   Politics in the organizational environment

     A.   The dynamics of organizational politics

     B.   Negative and positive politics

     C.   Why politics?

VI.  Manage political behaviors to increase your overall effectiveness