Teamwork in Project Management
1-day Workshop

This program is designed mainly for project team leaders but is also appropriate
for intact project teams. It presents and provides experiential practice in the
teamwork skills that are so essential to project success. Exercises are designed
to build team cohesion and effective interaction. Like all of our programs, it is
highly interactive. The exact order of presentation of these topics is flexible and is
usually determined by the issues and questions brought up by the participants.

NOTE: This program requires some telephone (or on-site) consultation prior to
presentation so materials and presentation can be adapted to meet specific
needs and/or address specific issues.

How project teams are somewhat unique
  • Types of teams
  • The unique characteristics of project teams
  • Exercise: Building a project-team charter

Basic meeting skills
  • Agendas
  • Exercise: Developing a meeting agenda
  • Meeting minutes
  • Managing the inevitable conflicts
  • Exercise: Role plays demonstrating various conflict situations

Leadership, trust, power and authority
  • The essentials of team leadership
  • Exercise: Developing a personal leadership-development plan
  • Building and sustaining trust within the team and between the team and
    the organization
  • Exercise: Assessing trust levels
  • Exercise: Building “trust accounts”
  • Power and authority
  • Where power comes from
  • The five types of power
  • How and when to use each type of power
  • Exercise: Role plays demonstrating the effects of various types of
    power on common situations

How teams grow and develop over time
  • A basic model of team development
  • Exercise: Assessing the current stage of development of a team
  • The common problems at each stage of development
  • The most effective leader and member behaviors at each stage
  • Exercise: Role plays demonstrating common issues at each
    stage of development

Interpersonal Communication
  • NOTE: This topic includes an online self-assessment participant’s
    complete prior to the training.
  • The critical nature of communication in projects
  • Within the team
  • Between the team and the organization
  • Exercise: Debrief of the Communication Style Self-assessment
  • The strengths and weaknesses of various communication styles
  • Effective, active listening
  • Other common communication issues
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"The important thing to
recognize is that it
takes a team, and the
team ought to get
credit for the wins and
the losses. Successes
have many fathers,
failures have none."
     Philip Caldwell
     (1979 - 1985)
     President & CEO
     Ford Motor Co.