Overcoming Your Winning Strategies: Coaching for Project

Managers Rick Forbus, PhD - Presenter

Individual Leadership Development – MODULE 1

What are your WINNING STRATEGIES and how do you overcome them?

Write one sentence that you think a co-worker would write to describe your success

story.

What have been the leadership and management skills that have gotten you to where you are today?

Take a minute and list them. List 3 leadership

competencies and 3 management skills.

Someone has well said that leadership development is a journey with no finish

line.

Core Competencies

The 9 core competencies of leaders:

1.SETTING DIRECTION

2.ALIGNING PEOPLE

3.MOTIVATING AND INSPIRING

4.LEADING TEAMS

5.COMMUNICATING

6.BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS

7. FACILITATING ETHICAL CONDUCT

8. NEGOTIATING

9. LEADING CHANGE

Management Skills(5 essentials)

1. Decision-making

2. Planning

3. Problem-solving

4. Meeting Management

5. Delegation

Personal Development Plans& Goals

Self-Awareness

Self-Management

Relationship Management

THE JOHARI WINDOW

Team Leadership –MODULE 2

Collaborating

Is there an art to collaboration?

Can a project manager learn specific skills for leveraging a project team’s collective brilliance?

Interdependence

• High Risk and High Return

SETTING DIRECTION

Healthy Divergence

Mind Maps or Graphic Depictions

ALIGNING PEOPLE • The Human Factor

MOTIVATING AND INSPIRING

Team Member’s Styles

Move from:

1. telling to...

2. steering to...

3. enlisting to...

4. encouraging.

Path to Motivation & Inspiring

Coaching and Mentoring –MODULE 3

What value may a project manager find in setting up a coaching or mentoring system within the team?

Peer Coaching Systems

What affinity groups are needed to begin to improve the level of expertise of the field of project management?

A Source for Assessing Leadership and Management Skills

ACL

THE TROVE THE TROVE NEEDS & VALUES NEEDS & VALUES

ASSESSMENTASSESSMENT

The system could allow for a monthly coaching meeting with the TRIAD based on:

1. Project management challenges

2. Behavior and leadership skill development

3. Team leadership skill development training

4. Communication skill development

5. Other

• Development of PMI Chapter Coaches

• Outside professional coaches

• Leadership development for boards PMI chapters

• Mini-workshops for the PMI leadership

• Small group coaching on marketing, strategy and organizational flow

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