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Formerly known as PMLM60 Project Leadership and Team Motivation Elements of leadership in technical environments are discussed and three approaches to technical leadership are provided based on three worldviews. Three ways to assess individual leadership skills are provided along with how one can mature their personal leadership approach. Motivational approaches are reviewed highlighting ways to assess others' motives. A key model to understanding and using motivational approaches will be presented along with how to utilizing learned motives as a quick assessment about tendencies to respond to certain leadership approaches. Human transaction analysis is reviewed and mastered as a way for project leaders to enhance communication with project team members and other stakeholders. Managing a project leader's discretionary time is covered highlighting typical examples. Managing power and authority on a project is given explicit attention. Good leadership is critical for the success of any project. Leadership on projects involves three separate leadership roles based on three worldviews. These roles include an emphasis on the project itself, one based on its environment, and one based on the people participating as a part of a team. A Jungian leadership model is provided that highlights how a leader can act in certain situations, and how one can mature their own leadership approach. Communicating more effectively, and balancing leadership styles are also covered.
Students will earn 12 PDU's toward their PMP® Certification or renewal. CAIT is a Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.) of PMI®. CAIT's R.E.P. Provider ID is 2692.
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This course is for project leaders, prospective project leaders, and those who currently or expect to interface in leadership capacities with projects. Current or anticipated team leaders.
Foundations for Project Management Mastery (PMM110), or equivalent experience.
- Tie project basics to advanced leadership ideas
- Assess personality strengths and weaknesses for project stakeholders
- Know various motivational approaches
- Apply a learning-based motivational approach across project members
- Know how to mature a leadership style
- Recognize how team dynamics apply to projects
- Assess communication issues between stakeholders in a project
- Know how team dynamics apply to projects
- Review of project management fundamentals
- Re-discovery of the six basics of a project
- Application of basics to standard project images
- Identify leadership approaches
- The L-1 leader
- The L-2 leader
- The M-based leader
- Review of three motivational assumptions
- Motivation as causal
- Motivation as a place
- Motivation as a learned phenomena
- Technical and non-technical project leadership
- Job design approach and the three critical psychological states
- A behavioral approach
- Integrating leadership with three motivational biases
- Jungian-based leadership
- Jung's approach to personality
- Assessing personality types â?? the MBTI
- The MBTI as a hint at a unique leadership style
- Achieving a higher form of leadership through exercising three principles
- Principle of opposites
- Principle of equivalence
- Principle of maturity
- Motivational Approaches
- Theory X and theory Y
- Maturity of life position
- Factor based approach
- Learned motivation
- Need for achievement
- Need for power
- Need for affiliation
- Power and authority
- Six forms of authority (including the "Jedi mind-trick")
- Power and the five ways of thinking
- Power and personal causation
- Transaction Analysis as a way to assess and adjust stakeholder communication
- Assessing social actors through three ego states
- Ego-state contaminations, how to understand the problem
- The OK corral
- Life-scripts and games
- Leadership models and usage
- The situational model and its usage
- Two dimensions for applying effective leadership solutions
- Combining leadership, decision making, and motivational approaches
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