IT Project Leadership, Authority & Accountability


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
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Overview/Description
Have you ever worked on a project where many assignments were over budget? Are you looking for new ways to motivate and inspire your project team? This course will provide you with leadership skills and techniques to provide legitimate motivation to your project team that will soon have you seeing better results. In addition, the course will provide you with methods of establishing authority and accountability in an IT project to ensure the roles of all project stakeholders are defined.

Target Audience
This course is specifically targeted to experienced IT managers, and managers who support IT project managers. Company executives, project managers, and functional managers with employees assigned to project teams will also benefit from this course.

Expected Duration (hours)
6.0

Lesson Objectives

Influencing by Leadership

  • recognize the importance of learning about strong leadership on IT project teams.
  • identify the leadership roles of a project manager at the beginning of an IT project.
  • use the appropriate leadership roles when initiating an IT project in a given scenario.
  • sequence examples of the steps for developing a high-performance IT project team.
  • apply the steps for developing a high-performance IT project team, given a scenario.
  • apply the rules of incentive motivation in an IT project scenario.
  • identify examples of positive leadership behaviors in IT projects.
  • apply appropriate leadership behaviors given an IT project scenario.
  • apply techniques to build appropriate behavior into an IT project team's schema, given a scenario.
  • Authority and Accountability

  • recognize the importance of learning about authority and accountability in IT projects.
  • identify steps to establish authority and accountability in an IT project.
  • apply the steps for establishing an authority and accountability structure for a given IT project.
  • match strategies of establishing a balance of authority in an IT project to examples of each.
  • apply strategies to establish a balance of authority given an IT project scenario.
  • conduct authority mapping in an IT project scenario.
  • Course Number:
    PROJ0364