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Managing and Leading Projects Across Organizational Boundaries - Achieving Project Success in Complex Environments Through Collaborative Skills: On-Demand

Significant projects today are performed by teams of people from multiple organization units and, often, multiple companies. When project managers, team leaders or technical professionals seek collaborative relationships across organizational boundaries, they often encounter a daunting array of challenges.

These challenges must be dealt with effectively across business, political, team, interpersonal and personal levels to successfully meet project objectives. The goal of this course is to provide participants with a framework for improving project performance by successfully navigating through the turbulence of organizational cultures.

What You Will Learn

You'll learn how to:

Assess an organizational culture's challenges and adapt your interpersonal skills and political acumen to meet them

Apply basic tools and techniques for building relationships and gaining influence across organizational boundaries

Plan a tailored, systematic approach for gaining support, resources and collaboration from individuals in organizations where you have no formal influence

Getting Started

Introductions

Course structure

Course goals and objectives

Foundation Concepts

Overview of key course concepts

Managing and leading: the balance and evolution

Managing and leading projects versus ongoing work

Organizations defined and a project manager's outlook across the structures

The Path to Competency in Managing and Leading Projects Across Organizational Boundaries (MLPAOB)

Organizational Cultures and Behaviors

Overview of organizational culture and behaviors

Organizations and change

Organizational grassroots changes

Political Acumen

Overview of role and impact of political acumen

Role of politics in organizations

Political behaviors

How to improve your political acumen skills

Building Relationships

Strategies for building relationships

Balance emotion with reason

"Try to understand"

Inquire, consult and listen

Reliability and building trust

Gaining Influence

Overview of gaining influence

Step 1: Determine influence needs

Step 2: Assess influence assets

Step 3: Plan approach

Step 4: Implement plan

Step 5: Manage progress

Planning and Implementing Your Approach

Overview of Implementation Approach and Continuous Improvement (IA&CI)

Enhancing Primary MLPAOB skills through:

Identifying and sampling auxiliary MLPAO skills

Practicing MLPAOB skills

Self-reflection: developing a personal action plan (optional - time permitting)

Summary

What did we learn, and how can we implement this in our work environments?

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Managing and Leading Projects Across Organizational Boundaries: On-Demand

By IIL Europe Ltd

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