Learning Objectives

• Explain strengths and weaknesses of the various types of leadership styles and their appropriate application in the knowledge areas for portfolio, program and project management.
• Explain how a facilitative leadership approach improves team effectiveness by building capacity, self management capability and reducing stress while laying a foundation for trust and commitment.
• Articulate how a facilitative approach dovetails into the PMI code of conduct and significantly increases probability of success within each of the five process groups from either a project or program perspective.

Project and program managers are vanguards of change where resistance is the common currency and dealing with it is the barometer of success. Join Bill Richardson for an entertaining and informative look at a facilitative leadership approach that promotes transforming resistance into advocacy by becoming a thinking partner with your team instead of a thinking replacement. Find out how a facilitative leadership style builds the capacity for self management and the environment for interdependent team play. If project and program management is a team game, then facilitative leadership provides the playbook on how to do it with both character and competence.