Source: PMI® Pulse of the Profession In-Depth Report: Navigating Complexity
PROJECT LEADERSHIP
PSYCHODYNAMICS
Shifting your project management capabilities to the next level
How do you join the ranks of a small percentage of highly effective project managers?
Tap into the #1 component responsible for project success ...
Leadership skills
Leadership is the skill identified as the most important to successfully manage projects.
What makes the top 1% of project managers good?
There are many project managers who are equally qualified and experienced. The factor separating the top performers from the rest is their ability to lead the human dynamic.
FAQ
WHAT is project leadership?
Project leadership is the focus on the human dynamic component – the people.
It is the skill and ability to influence and move the high-potential, complex, and volatile people component towards the objectives of the project.
WHY is Project Leadership different to Project Management?
The ‘mechanics’ versus the ‘psychodynamics’.
As a project manager you are technically equipped. You have been trained in the methods, models, frameworks, and tools required to effectively manage the processes of a project.
However, when you add people into the mix, you need to understand the psychodynamics in play and how to manage this critical element within the success equation.
WHY is project leadership crucial to you as a Project Manager?
75 percent of organizations rank leadership skills as the most important for successful navigation of the complexity in projects.
Four out of five high performers (81 percent) report that the most important acquired skills for project managers to successfully manage highly complex projects are the skills of leadership.
When you understand what drives the human dynamic you are working with, then you can begin to lead. The art and science of leading others is proven as the key differentiator when it comes to projects being classed as successful, average, or failed initiatives.
(PS. knowing how to lead, how to tap into the key human dynamics, will make your life a lot less stressful)
The Leadership Psychodynamics approach that develops better leaders
What is project leadership psychodynamics,
and why should you look into it?
(play the video)
Become an influential
project leader
Successfully moving any project from its inception, through execution, and onto achieving the expected outcomes, is directly linked to your ability to lead the complex and volatile realm of the human dynamic.
The Leadership Psychodynamics Model has been developed to remove the complexity of leadership by focusing on the fundamental drivers that align and influence people.
Where do you begin your leadership evolution?
Get a Leadership Psychodynamics Playbook in your hands
Using the psychodynamics principles, the playbook outlines the game plays you can follow for the four most common scenarios you will encounter.
You are equipped for the mechanics-side of managing your projects.
Now, what you need is a playbook to help you tap into the potential of the people-side.
Having a Playbook as a leader is the same reason pro sports teams, airline crews, fighter pilots, surgeons, and many other top performers make use of them.
When you are under pressure a playbook contains a vast number of different pre-visualised scenarios and the corresponding game plays to be used.
The Leadership Psychodynamics Playbook is exactly this. It focuses your attention and energies on following the right game play for the scenarios in front of you.
Raise your game with a playbook that helps you manage the complexity, volatility, potential, and performance of the people involved in driving project success.
The Leadership Psychodynamics Playbook for Project Leaders is part of the Leadership Psychodynamics advanced program, but you can get your hands on it by taking the Rapid Uptake Module as a standalone part of the program.
EQUIP YOURSELF TO BE PART OF THE 1%
Leadership skills place the best project managers within the top 1% of high performance achievers.
THE EQUIPPING ZONE
The Leadership Psychodynamics program for Project Leaders
How to effectively use the playbook
The best equipment, models, and tools all require an understanding of the fundamentals for them to give you the best results. This is why we have developed the Leadership Psychodynamics Program to help you effectively use the Leadership Playbook.
A 3-part program. But, you don't have to do all three.
We know every project management environment is a non-stop, always-on space where time and focus is stretched to the limit. This is why we have designed and built a three-part program for you starting with the 90 minute rapid uptake module.
1. 90 minute module: The program is has been designed to accommodate the frenetic pace and schedule you operate within. You can be up and running within 90 minutes if that is all that your demands or needs require.
2. Advanced Program Module: Or, you can complete the full program and learn how to master this leadership model and your leadership function by taking the Advanced Program Module.
3. Leadership DNA: For those who are keen on taking their leadership to the highest level by creating a leadership DNA within your team or organisation, there is the Leadership DNA Module that you can take.
[1] The 90 minute rapid uptake module
"What if the next 90 minutes can change how you look at leadership, and dramatically change how you go about it?"
The 90 minute
Rapid Uptake Module
The Rapid Uptake format has been developed with you in mind because;
it is busy out there,
you are under constant work pressure,
you don’t have time to waste,
and what you really need is usable stuff – right now – that will help you with your most immediate challenges and scenarios.
Getting you off the mark with a leadership playbook in your hands and managing your scenarios – all within 90 minutes.
[2] The Advanced Leadership Psychodynamics Module
The deeper dive
There is so much more to the ever-evolving journey as a leader than just a rapid uptake version.
You have been equipped with the playbook and the fundamentals of how to use it. Your next evolution step is to gain a deeper understanding of what sits behind the psychodynamics. Take a deeper dive into what the factors are that drive the powerful potential in human dynamic you are responsible for harnessing.
[3] Leadership DNA
Alignment, synchronicity, focus
The ability for people to lead at their specific level, but within the genetic wiring of the organisation is essential.
When everyone functions within an aligned, synchronised and focus manner, it means that the organisation is functioning in its most efficient and effective mode.
More ownership and responsibility, taken across all levels, but still within the defined parameters of the overall organisational DNA boundaries, allows flexibility, adaptability and agility across all levels without requiring the bureaucratic controls to be followed.