Roles and responsibilities of versatile managers
- Understand the main tasks of a versatile manager.
- Identify the different roles of a project manager.
- Understand the specifics of versatile management and define a manager’s qualities.
- Enact a “partner”, “cooperation”, or “client/supplier”-style relationship with your team.
- Build and inspire a shared vision, give meaning to actions and projects.
- Learn to use both facets of a versatile manager: The manager-expert and the manager-leader.
- Boost your leadership skills: Show the way, lead by example, encourage active collaboration.
Exercise
Discussions and feedback on the role of the project manager. Self-assessment of your own leadership style and your positioning within your organization.
Team cohesion and orientation
- Understanding how teams function at work: Characteristics of a project team, and its dynamics.
- Identifying different value systems within a team and incorporating them into your management.
- Defining the benefits of team cohesion.
- Developing team commitment: Methods and tools.
- Taking into account the different environments of team members and their organizations.
- Instituting operational rules: Holding meetings, debriefings, etc.
- Anticipating difficulties: Planning possible scenarios and the best replacement solutions.
Role-playing
Filmed role-playing with debriefings on getting a team committed to a project. Case study on team dynamics.
Motivation and mobilization
- Identifying key factors to the success of a project: Success parameters.
- Understanding and containing team stress and personal stress.
- Taking into account power dynamics: Identifying contributors, opponents, undecideds, and waverers...
- Implementing success indicators: Qualitative and quantitative assessment criteria...
- Creating a stimulating environment through trust, recognizing and rewarded successes
- Guiding the team toward success: Feedback and debriefing to enable growth.
Case study
Case study on power dynamics. Work on an analysis grid of the degree of autonomy enjoyed by a project’s players.
Delegation and assigning responsibilities
- Identifying tasks to delegate: Map of skills, delegation added value, availabilities, etc.
- Setting clear, quantified objectives: SMART Goals.
- Learning how to manage the project’s priorities: The Eisenhower priority matrix, distinguishing urgent and important, etc.
- Defining the delegation process: Formalization, control, and evaluation.
- Setting up a planned auditing system.
- Giving the team responsibility for implementing the decisions made.
- Implementing managerial contracts or delegation contracts within the project team.
- Determining a motivation-building schedule and assessing the results.
Exercise
Building a delegation plan. Filmed role-playing with debriefings on communication and delegation.
Communication and involvement
- The importance of managerial communication in project management: Informative and performative communication.
- Understanding the communication process: Sender, message, receiver.
- Being aware of different sensory channels: VAKOG.
- Learning how to listen to validate information: Practicing active listening.
- Learning how to ask questions and rephrase.
- Adapting your language to your listeners: Verbal and non-verbal synchronization.
- Giving responsibility to the project’s players.
Role-playing
Exercises and role-playing on "selling your ideas”, learning communication tools, and developing a managerial influence strategy.
Personal progress action plan
- Identifying your areas for managerial progress and setting goals for yourself.
- Determining measurement criteria and things to watch out for.
- Determining deadlines and control/assessment methods.
Exercise
Building a personal progress action plan.
3d
- 21h00 
