Project Manager Team Building & Facilitation Skills
(2-days, 16 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

Workshop Overview

The Project Manager Team Building and Facilitation Skills Workshop is a two day workshop that will focus on team building and facilitation skills that are necessary for project managers to effectively lead project teams. Project team dynamics, will be addressed, from building a project team, to determining team effectiveness, clarification of team roles and responsibilities, team communications, and planning. The workshop uses interactive experiential activities to reinforce learning.

Workshop Objectives

At the completion of this workshop, participants will, using the materials provided and used in the workshop, be able to:

• Describe the role of a facilitator
• Name the five stages of team development
• Name four values and nine ground rules of effective project teams
• With the assistance of class notes name the parts of a team charter
• Be able to administer a team evaluation criteria questionnaire and interpret the results
• Describe communications processes used by effective project teams
• Define project manager and project team member roles
• List the six steps of the decision making model presented in class
• Describe five tools project managers and/or facilitators have available and use in team facilitation
• Describe the steps to planning a project team meeting
• Plan and facilitate a project team meeting based upon workshop experience in planning and facilitating project team meetings

Workshop experiences will be gained through a series of interactive team activities

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