Communication Skills
for Successful Leadership and Effective Project Management
Good communication is a key element in the skills portfolio of any successful professional. Being able to articulate your vision and strategies clearly enables you to energize and motivate your team and establishes you as a strong leader and capable manager within the organization. Harnessing the skills to influence others can be the difference between success and failure.
Communication is so vital to an organization's decision-making process that all project managers must have the skills to initiate and respond to all forms of communication. The successful manager builds collaborative relationships through active listening. He or she can dramatically increase productivity by running efficient meetings and business discussions.
Building collaborative relationships based on trust and respect, gaining commitment for your vision, and leading your team and stakeholders to consensus are all critical competencies for today's project managers.
The following courses will help you become a more compelling and persuasive communicator needed in order to achieve project success.
Prerequisite Courses
If you haven't mastered the project management fundamentals, we recommend you take one of these two courses before taking courses to improve your communication skills:
Project Management: Skills for Success
Course 296 • 4 Days
Project Management for Software Development
Course 340 • 4 Days
Communication Courses
Communication Skills: Results through Collaboration
Course 292 • 3 Days
You Will Learn How To:
- Build collaborative relationships that emphasize trust and respect
- Communicate effectively using simple, concise and direct language
- Enhance your active-listening skills to anticipate and avoid common misunderstandings
- Foster cross-cultural understanding in your workplace
- Eliminate the roadblocks that undermine your ability to communicate effectively
Facilitating Successful Meetings and Business Discussions
Course 905 • 3 Days
You Will Learn How To:
- Facilitate goal-oriented results through planning, collaboration and consensus
- Maintain facilitative focus by adopting the right frame of mind
- Create a targeted agenda to make meetings productive
- Start up, manage and close effective meetings
- Resolve disagreement using a range of consensus-building techniques
Influence Skills: Getting Results without Direct Authority
Course 294 • 4 Days
You Will Learn How To:
- Apply influence strategies to gain commitment from others and foster collaboration
- Dynamically adjust your approach to others to gain buy-in
- Achieve goals by enhancing trust and cooperation
- Deal effectively with challenging behaviors to overcome resistance and inertia in others
- Use knowledge and competence rather than position and status to influence others
Other Courses to Enhance Project Management Skills
SharePoint® for Project Management
Course 919 • 3 Days
Responding to Conflict: Creating Resolution and Cooperation
Course 904 • 3 Days
Personal Skills for Professional Excellence
Course 297 • 4 Days
- Project Management Pitfalls
- Lack of Leadership
- Lack of Support from Stakeholders or Senior Management
- Poor Communication
- Competing, Shifting or Unclear Organizational Objectives
- Vague User Input and Insufficient Requirements Gathering
- Poor Project Planning
- Ineffective Estimating, Scheduling and Budgeting
- Unforeseen Project Risks and Lack of Contingency Planning
- Stretched and Limited Resources
- Inconsistent Project Methodology
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