PM 101: Workshop 9 - Project Leadership and Working with People

Location: In-Person | COLE 340

Date: June 12, 2025  

Time: 1pm – 3pm  

Facilitator: David Vincenti

Even though “human” is a type of resource, its importance is self-evident. As such, we are dedicating an entire workshop focusing on people.  In addition to a brief discussion on leadership theories and ways of motivating people, we will also discuss a common challenge in projects – a lack of clear roles and responsibilities among the project team members.  This deficiency can cause headaches for the project managers, and in the worst case, confusing roles can also cause conflicts.  In addition, this session will also discuss project negotiations, and how negotiation can be an effective tool for resolving disagreements and conflicts.

As a part of the workshop, we are planning two activities:

1. Apply RACI to drive clarity of responsibilities on projects
2. Discuss principles of forming effective teams
3. Examine selective project negotiation scenarios and determine optimal approach to achieving agreement

Benefits

To Participants:

• Learn leadership models and fundamentals to enable more successful engagement of  team members and stakeholders based on understanding of their needs and the project’s needs.
• Gain exposure to techniques for holding team members and stakeholders accountable through responsibility assignment matrices, especially the traditional RACI model.
• Understand the importance of negotiation in project leadership and gain tools to prepare for and manage such negotiations.

To the University:

• Deploy an accountability model that makes easier the management of shared resources and common priorities.
• Improve project success by equipping project managers with an important tool for influencing without authority to hold team members and stakeholders accountable. 

Please visit the Project Management 101 Learning Series Canvas course to view additional resources.

Project Management 101 Learning Series Schedule