Modules
- Introductions
- AIPMO
- Course outline, Guidelines and training approach
- Definitions
- Purpose of leadership
- Leadership, ethics, and responsibility
- Management and leadership – what and where is it required in the organization
- From manager to leader
- Impact on organizations
- Levels of leadership
- Leadership competencies
- Bad habits of leadership
- Gender differences in leadership styles and management
- Leadership styles
- Project leader versus project manager
- Performance in organizations
- Competencies of a project leader
- Value for the organization
- Horizontal versus vertical leadership
- What is a team? Understanding the dynamics
- Tuckman's model
- Multicultural teams
- Virtual team leadership
- Agile team leadership: the power of empowerment
- Definition of a PMO
- Where PMOs exist in the organization
- AIPMO's 7 PMO principles with the 8th overriding principle
- PMO metaphors and the balance of leadership and management
- Matching the PMO role to your personal leadership abilities
- AIPMO's advice on PMO leadership
- What is decision making?
- Who makes decisions?
- Types of decisions – programmed versus non-programmed decisions
- Fact based decisions – the knowledge triangle
- Leadership and decision making
- Decision making in projects
- Red flags in decision making
- Risk of functional managers taking complex related decisions
- What is a conflict and how to recognize it?
- Sources of conflicts and prevention
- Principles of dealing with conflicts
- Conflict and Negotiation
- Conflicts in and across teams
- Leadership aspects of conflict management
- Conflict types between projects, programs, portfolios, and PMOs
- Conflicts between the project world and operations world
- Comparing the attributes of a physical, virtual, and hybrid environment
- Traits of teams and what they mean
- Virtual environment success factors
- Decision making
- Building trust
- Culture
- Performance monitoring
- Automating updates
- Motivation
- Hints and tips to lead and create success
- Case study
- Revision and Exam