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Managing People in Projects

This two-day workshop is perfect as a supplement to our Project Management workshop or as a stand-alone. The workshop provides a focused, rational method for improving the performance of project managers and the people working on projects. You will learn who to involve in projects—and when and how to involve them. You learn how to set expectations, track and analyze performance, and provide feedback. This integrated approach is based on a behavior model that helps you understand and affect organizational behavior and systematically improve the success of your projects.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Managing People in Projects is designed for managers who have responsibility for projects, project managers, sub-project managers, and managers whose work environment is project-based

BENEFITS

• Have people want to work on your projects.
  
• Get people to perform on your projects, even if they don't report to you.
  
• Analyze why people aren't performing on your projects and revise your approach.
  
• Identify factors that block the success of your projects.
  
• Improve project results.

INTEGRATING 3 POWERFUL MANAGEMENT MODELS
Kepner-Tregoe has long been recognized for its proven systematic process for managing projects. Now we've combined the power of that process with our renowned approaches for managing people's performance and managing involvement.

Project Management
You will learn the three fundamental elements of the project management process—definition, planning, and implementation—and the steps in each. The importance of using project management discussions as a tool to gather and communicate information, gain understanding, and build commitment is also covered.

Project Performance System Model
You will learn how to apply a powerful performance system model to evaluate and create supportive project performance environments. The model consists of five components—

Situation: The immediate project setting in which a project participant works;

Performer: The person or group expected to perform on a project;

Response: The specific, observable behavior or action of project participants;

Consequences: Events that follow behaviors and increase or decrease the probability that the behaviors will occur on the project again;

Feedback: The performance-based information a project participant receives about progress toward project goals that guides him or her in maintaining or modifying behavior.

Managing Involvement®
A critical aspect of improving performance on projects centers on involvement. You will learn the basics of the Kepner-Tregoe Managing Involvement approach to help determine who needs to be involved and how in defining, planning, and implementing project work.