How to become an outstanding project manager

Take your project resistance management and project communication skills to a masterful level.
What you'll learn
Develop an overview of the scale of resistance, awareness of resisting behaviours and how to begin to manage dysfunctional behaviours.
Gather qualitative data to map the scale of resistance.
Develop resistance management communication skills to get buy-in of resisters.
Apply facilitation skills to define likely project resistance and devise trial solutions as part of resistance management planning.
Apply project-wide communication skills to facilitate cooperation and sustain project success.
Requirements
Some project management or project coordination experience.
Description
This applied course uses a cascade approach to training. We recommend the "learn-one (thoroughly), do-one (repeatedly), teach-one (repeatedly)" approach commonly used to train doctors to attain mastery.

Learn One: Training videos are supported by transcripts and other materials to support visual, auditory, and kinetic learners.
Do One: Practical tasks and tools are designed to help you apply what you learn.
Teach One: Bite-sized videos and PDF versions of presentations allow you to practice project communication skills as you transfer knowledge to project team members.

In this applied course you'll learn
Why people resist
How different people are likely to react to project change
How to assess the underlying needs of those impacted by your project
Understand common resisting behaviors
How to uncover existing sources of resistance
Uncover employee issues and concerns that will impact the project
Understand the barriers to project success
Plot where people are on the resistance to engagement spectrum
How to build project acceptance
Apply facilitated Inquiry techniques to build bridges and establish common ground
Understand individual needs and requirements to support and sustain project efforts
Determine necessary project management improvements to guarantee buy-in and project engagement
Project acceptance learning labs
Assess where everyone is on the project acceptance curve
Identify some essential conditions for acceptance and engagement
Propose basic steps in an engagement roadmap
Use insights to inform communication, engagement, training, and sustainment plans
Implement and sustain project efforts
Apply project communication tools and skills to implement plans for teams to be agile.
Build and leave learning-oriented teams
Establish a commitment to sustaining project results


Who this course is for:
Project managers who want to deal with the push-back they face.

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