Organization: Asset Africa Institute
Registration deadline: 08 Feb 2017
Starting date: 15 Feb 2017
Ending date: 17 Feb 2017
Dear Partner,
Asset Africa Institute, (www.assetafrica.co.ke), is pleased to announce the following training coming up in February 2017 in Nairobi, Kenya.
Training Title: Reinforcing the Performance & Professionalism of Project Teams in Development Sector
Date: 15th -17th February 2017
Venue: Nairobi, Kenya
Duration: 3 Days
Need for Training
Success is neither an accident nor an incident! Sound team leadership and management skills are crucial to the success of any program and strong, well focused and high –energy project teams constitute critical components in the delivery of projects that are of high quality, cost effective, efficient and on time. This training, facilitated by world class training consultants, equips you with invaluable skills to help shape your project teams to become more collaborative in their project implementation activities, be more innovative while consistently producing better deliverables .
Deliberately set so early in the year, the forum affords you a unique opportunity to interrogate some of the most critically important issues in the management and leadership of project teams in a modern institutional setting while at the same time availing insights, tools, techniques and proven strategies of adapting them to your unique project/program situations; Moreover, the experience sharing sessions, which are so central to the delivery of this seminar, enable you to learn how other managers are responding to the rapidly changing project team dynamics.
This is an interactive forum with experience sharing sessions informing programme design, thus places are reserved for early booking only.
Training Objectives
This high level training skills you to among other things;
- Enhance the quality, quantity of outputs and degree of professionalism among project teams
- Craft project teams that exude enthusiasm, are goal focused, robust, creative and collaborative
- Reflect and analyze your leadership styles and its effect on your teams and outputs
- Improve your ability to lead and prioritize demands of teams of varied education and cultural compositions
- Greatly enhance the status of your organization among project financiers through maximized team productivity
- Improve work relations, increase project ownership & accountability among staff and help reduce staff turn-over
Summary Training Agenda
Day 1
- Leading for Success-Why Success is neither an Accident nor an Incident!
- Understanding the project team matrix: The “Red”, ”Green”, ”Brown” & “Blue” Teams-which one of these characteristics does your team project?
- Setting and communication goals, objectives and organizational visions
- Setting Priorities-How to Design and Apply the Requirements Prioritization Worksheet.
- Steps into building a great project/program team-Clear Communication of expectations-Continuous Training & Exposures-Acknowledgment & Encouragement-Staff Performance Measurement
- Causes & Characteristics of dysfunctional teams
- Promoting Mutual Accountability
- Leadership Skills for High Performance Project Teams- Developing your emotional and diversity intelligence
Day 2
- Role of Teams in Resource Allocation/Budgeting
- 9 common reasons for project failures-case Studies
- Aligning HR strategies/policies/processes/procedures to staff objectives and organizational goals
- The Link between Motivation, team performance and staff retention
- Strategies for resolution of team conflicts & individual differences
- How to keep project teams, Clients & Stakeholders engaged
- Change management
- Continuous Learning & Productivity
- Competences of Project Teams-How to hire and maintain the right people for a project
Day 3
- How NOT to improve team performance: Avoid these 6 common management practices
- Innovation in Team Leadership-How to set up work systems that supports teams dynamics
- Inspired Leadership-How to get the best out of your teams without overtaxing them
- Stakeholder Analysis, Mapping, Engagement & Management
- Developing/Measuring individual and team performance-How to design and use Self –Assessment Analysis Spreadsheet
- Hiring the right Staff for Projects.
- Project Governance
- Leading into the future: Examining power relations-Exploring leadership presence--Integrating lessons learnt with future leadership plans
Who Should Attend: Policy Makers, Senior & Middle Staff in NGOs/ NPOs/FBOs-Board Members, Executive Committees of Boards, Trustees, Executive Directors, Country Directors/ Managers, Finance Staff, HR Managers &Officers, Program Managers & Officers
Training Methodology
Dynamic, creative, participant centered, practical, interactive, interesting adult learning methodologies and diverse media are applied to lift the participants to high levels of proficiency. After-training, follow-up and remedial coaching will be offered to interested participants on request for free.
About the Organization
Asset Africa Institute (www.assetafrica.co.ke)-AAI--AAI-) has distinguished itself as the training provider of choice among development organizations. AAI specializes in the research, design and delivery of high quality and affordable training programs for development workers worldwide. We work with a team of high end consultant base of more than 130 highly educated and experienced professionals many of whom are involved in post doctoral research work. Over the years, AAI has provided consultancies and training to such reputable organizations as: Federal University, Birnin Kebbi-Nigeria, African Institute for Capacity Development (AICAD),Norwegian Church Aid-Zambia, ACOMIN-Nigeria, Tear Fund-DRC, CLEEN Organization-Nigeria, Love Botswana Outreach Mission, Islamic Relief-Somalia, National Museums of Kenya, Cornerstone Development-Uganda, International Organization for Immigration (South Sudan), Save Your Generation (SYG)-Ethiopia, Africa Rice Center (Africa Rice)-Benin, Rwanda Union of the Blind, Sasakawa Africa Association-Ethiopia, Harare Institute of Technology, Care International-Mali, Africa Centre of Excellence in Oilfield Chemicals Research (CEFOR) University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Mazommo Construction Company-Liberia, Addis Ababa University, Uganda Industrial Research Institute, IOM-Sudan**,** Integrated Development Organization(IDO),South Sudan, among others
To register for this seminar kindly contact:
Lillian Ateng’
Training Coordinator
Asset Africa Institute,
Trust Mansion Hse,
Tubman Road off Koinange Street
P.O. Box 12903 – 00100, Nairobi, Kenya
Phone: +254 -722 469454/720986965,
www.assetafrica.co.ke
Email: info@assetafrica.co.ke/assetafrika@gmail.com
How to register:
To enroll for this training, fill in the registration form attached and then email it to the attention of:
Lillian Ateng’
Training Coordinator
Asset Africa Institute
Trust Mansion Hse, Tubman Road off Koinange Street
P.O. Box 12903 - 00100
Nairobi, Kenya
Phone: +254 -722 469454/720986965