PROJECT LEADERSHIP
COURSE OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this module is to improve your leadership abilities, defining and
presenting important concepts such as stress, power, e, poder, interpersonal
relationships and conflict management.
LEARN TO
In this course, the attendees will learn
 Contextualize project leadership
 The interfaces that the project manager has to be aware of
 Manage and motivate the project team using power as a tool
 Manage Changes, Conflicts and Stress
COURSE INFORMATION
 Language: English, Portuguese (Br) and Spanish
 Public: On-site and in company classes. 
 Duration: 16hours.
 PDU’s: 16.
METHODOLOGY
Macrosolutions / Ricardo Vargas use the state-of-the-art in the training process,
including
 Explanatory classes utilizing audio-visual resources.
 Use of films and video clips as an educational resource
 Demonstrations and computer simulations
 Workgroups activities focused in problem-solving
 Scenario-based simulations using real cases to be further discussed in groups
Project Leadership
Copyright 2008 by Ricardo Viana Vargas.
All Right Reserved. Reproduction Prohibited.

COURSE CONTENT
 Maslow, Theory X and Y, Herzberg
Course opening
 How to maximize the interpersonal
Contextualizing project leadership
relationship
  The use of SDI® to analyse the
The role of leadership today
 The definition of leadership individual preferences
  Power and its use on team
The advantages inherent to a leader
 management
The leader main challenges
 Sources of power (French and
 Leader x Manager
 Raven)
What is the required leadership
 Effective power
profile of a project manager
 The influence of power on the
The project manager and his/her leadership
project’s outcomes
 The roles of the project manager  The 48 Laws of Power (Greene)
 Posner’s Study of the
The Management of Changes, Conflicts and
characteristics of the projet
Stress
manager

 Main mistakes when hiring a project Managing change

manager Changes as a positive influence
 How to use the Enneagram as a  The change and the leader

tool to better understand The phases of change: from
relationships resistence to support
 The change and conflicts
Managing and motivating project teams: the
 The leader as a conflict manager
effective use of power
 The main sources of conflicts
 The definition of team  Positive and negative causes of
 The characteristics of a project conflicts

team Conflict and Stress
 Advantages and obstacles when  Eustress x Distress

working in a team Managing stress in the project
 Team formation and development  Conflict x Stress x Performance

phases (Tuckman) Conflict Resolution Exercise – Self-
 Team types assessment
 Priorization dynamics and team
Course Close-out
work
 Building up motivation(process and
content theories)
MORE INFORMATION
Phone: +55-31-3024-3003
Fax: +55-31-3024-3005
e-mail: treinamento@macrosolutions.com.br
Project Leadership
Copyright 2008 by Ricardo Viana Vargas.
All Right Reserved. Reproduction Prohibited.