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7 Essential Steps for Project Managers to Leap to Leadership
(Half-day,4 PDUs)
Course Overview
Do you want to be recognized as a professional Project Manager or Program Manager who is ready to advance to the next level of leadership? Are you interested in learning how can you better position yourself for career growth using understated yet effective techniques that generate executive visibility and impact? In this course you’ll discover "7 Essential Steps for Project Managers to Leap to Leadership" — quick and easy techniques you can use to better enable your pursuit of management and leadership roles with enriched confidence. This four hour class provides students with the ability to:
- Understand subtle differences between impersonal and impressive mangaement behavior, while helping you distinguish and define small changes in your professional style which can produce a big influence in moving toward the leadership ranks.
- Learn ways to enhance your leadership demeanor and be viewed as a strategic thinker while avoiding political blunders along the way.
- Find out how your current communication habits may be helping advance your career aspriations or may be unwittingly holding you back.
- Gain insight into how you can better come across as a person with leadership potential when interacting with others in business and social settings.
Newest program from Mary Elston — Taught by our instructor who brings you the very popular class: "People Management for Project Managers"; in this new program from Mary Elston you’ll be guided through a series of fun, informative and energetic lessons for Project Managers and all professionals who are ready to position themselves for their next leadership leap!
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Articulate key factors for molding and modeling your exemplary management, leadership behavior
- Improve your ability to be recognized as ready for great leadership roles
- Position yourself for career growth with understated, effective management and leadership techniques that generate visibility and impact
- Enable pursuit of promotions, management and leadership roles with enriched confidence
- Understand the subtle differences between impersonal and impressive management behavior; key factors for molding leaders
- Realize the importance of enhancing leadership leaps by connecting with others in ways that are often overlooked
- Learn frequently missed techniques for effectively promoting your skills and capabilities in interactions with executives
- Discover how to avoid actions in social settings which may unwittingly sabotage your leadership leaps
- Enhance your leadership demeanor and ability to be perceived as a manager who is ready for bigger challenges and promotions
- Embrace the habit of being a strategic thinker who has leadership potential and shows it
- Communicate in a manner that exhibits managerial and leadership qualities to subordinates, peers and executives
- Personify leadership behavior as second nature; discover how to apply “Leadership Links” for developing your winning management and leadership style
Course Agenda:
- Model Great Managers
- Reach Out and Connect
- Leader’s Social Etiquette
- Leadership Demeanor
- Think and Act Strategically
- Communicate Like a Leader
Who Should Attend:
This course is for Project Managers, Program Managers and professionals at all levels who are eager to gain added insight into how to better position themselves for moving into a leadership role or want to refine and improve their overall leadership demeanor.
Those who should attend this course include:
- Project Managers
- Program Managers
- People Managers
- Consultants
- Directors
- IT Professionals
- Educators
- Professionals and Managers in small, medium and large organizations.
Instructor(s) Who Lead this Course:
