Project Management Team Building & Facilitation Skills
(1-days, 8 PDU's)

The project team is the project manager's greatest asset and biggest responsibility. To consistently produce successful projects, a project manager must have a strong and effective team. This class will teach you the leadership skills and techniques required to:
  1) Build high-performance teams
  2) Build the team environment and processes that maximize synergy, effectiveness and creativity
  3) Develop team relationships that lead to commitment and dedication
  4) Empower your team to make the right decisions at the right time

This workshop addresses the following topics:

1. Facilitation History and Background
2. Building a Project Team
   1. Team activity that will serve as the foundation for the remainder of the course

      1. What was the scope?

      2. Was there planning or did the team just jump into the project?

      3. During the execution phase: What happened?

      4. What went well?

      5. What did not work?

      6. What can be improved upon?

      7. How did the team communicate?

      8. How could the team have done better?

3. Project Team Effectiveness
   1. Self-scoring instrument about the characteristics of a team

      1. Clear goals

      2. Communication and several others

      3. Discussion how to interpret results and apply "back home" to  improve team effectiveness

4. Project Team Roles and Responsibilities
   1. Participants will identify key roles of a project team
   2. Discuss roles and responsibilities of each role
   3. Discuss project manager developing facilitation skills
5. Project Team Communications
   1. Lecturette and team discussion and report out
6. Project Facilitation Skills
   1. Lecturette and team discussion and report out
7. Project Team Facilitation Tools
   1. This will be a discussion of various tools and practice using some of them
8. Planning a Project Meeting
   1. Lecturette and application
9. Project Team Application
   1. Each team will develop a detailed agenda that will be used by the project manager/facilitator
   2. Conduct a project team meeting
   3. Report out

Course Instructor:  Tom Love, PMP