An important role of the project manager is to communicate project progress to the corporate sponsor and project steering committee. Understanding team leadership will reinforce the project manager’s role and authority on a project and the importance of a structured team model. This assignment requires the student to prepare a presentation with speaker notes that describes the team structure for the project. Your audience for the presentation is the project sponsor and other executives of the company. Use the same company and project idea you use in the Learning Team assignment this week. Create a 10- to 15-slide MSPowerPoint presentation. Cite at least two credible references. Wikipedia, eHow, businessdictionary.com, and the like are not acceptable academic sources. Format the presentation consistent with APA guidelines. Include APA-formatted citations on all slides, as necessary. Add an introductory slide, like the cover page in your individual reports, using APA format. Avoid the use of first-person and similar verbiage. Implement the following outline to ensure all required topics are addressed. Include speaker notes for all slides. List all references on the last slide. Introduction Team structure fundamentals Size Composition Governance Identity Interactions Mindset Stage model to be used (Situational Leadership or Group Development) Life cycle and leadership needs Describe each stage of the project’s life cycle Describe the leadership needs at each stage of the project’s life cycle Project manager roles Internal to the organization planner coordinator problem solver team leader External to the organization spokesperson liaison champion negotiator controller Conclusion References .

1. An important role of the project manager is to communicate
project progress to the corporate sponsor and project steering
committee. Understanding team leadership will reinforce the
project manager’s role and authority on a project and the
importance of a structured team model.
This assignment requires the student to prepare a presentation
with speaker notes that describes the team structure for the
project. Your audience for the presentation is the project
sponsor and other executives of the company.
Use
the same company and project idea you use in the Learning
Team assignment this week.
Create
a 10- to 15-slide MSPowerPoint presentation.
Cite
at least two credible references. Wikipedia, eHow,
businessdictionary.com, and the like
are not
acceptable academic sources.
Format
the presentation consistent with APA guidelines. Include APA-
formatted citations on all slides, as necessary.
Add
an introductory slide, like the cover page in your individual
reports, using APA format.
Avoid

2. the use of first-person and similar verbiage.
Implement
the following outline to ensure all required topics are
addressed.
Include
speaker notes for all slides.
List
all references on the last slide.
Introduction
Team structure fundamentals
Size
Composition
Governance
Identity
Interactions
Mindset
Stage model to be used (Situational Leadership or Group
Development)
Life cycle and leadership needs
Describe each stage of the project’s life cycle

3. Describe the leadership needs at each stage of the project’s life
cycle
Project manager roles
Internal to the organization
planner
coordinator
problem solver
team leader
External to the organization
spokesperson
liaison
champion
negotiator
controller
Conclusion
References