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Leading Across Boundaries. Influencing Without Authority.
Leading in Projects
Projects are becoming increasingly cross-functional, digital, and dynamic – from product development and transformation to digitalization, AI initiatives, and cross-organizational programs. Project leaders work with different functions, subject-matter experts, external partners, and stakeholders, often without having formal line authority.
Effective project leadership therefore means creating clarity, building commitment, and aligning different interests around a shared goal. When priorities shift, conflicts arise, or resistance emerges, project leaders need to keep people aligned and the project moving forward.
This training provides practical approaches for leading and collaborating effectively in complex projects – including when you do not have formal authority.
Effective project leadership therefore means creating clarity, building commitment, and aligning different interests around a shared goal. When priorities shift, conflicts arise, or resistance emerges, project leaders need to keep people aligned and the project moving forward.
This training provides practical approaches for leading and collaborating effectively in complex projects – including when you do not have formal authority.
Training Objectives
- Take clear ownership of your role and responsibilities within the project.
- Influence and lead effectively without formal authority.
- Create clarity around expectations, responsibilities, and decision rights.
- Delegate effectively and prevent responsibility from being pushed back.
- Adapt your approach to the situation – leading, coordinating, or collaborating as needed.
- Use communication deliberately to create clarity, alignment, and focus on results.
- Use feedback and feedforward effectively to strengthen performance and collaboration.
Contents of the Training
Day 1 | Creating Clarity and Leading Effectively in Projects
- The project leadership role: influence rather than hierarchy, clarity rather than micromanagement.
- Aligning stakeholders: making interests and expectations visible and aligning them around shared project goals.
- Clarifying roles and responsibilities: who decides, who contributes, and who owns the outcome?
- Delegating effectively: agreeing clearly on outcomes, boundaries, timelines, and decision authority.
- Preventing upward delegation: keeping ownership with the person responsible while providing the right level of support.
- Communicating with clarity and accountability: setting priorities, following through on commitments, and providing direction.
Day 2 | Steering Collaboration and Keeping the Project Moving
- Bringing together different perspectives, ways of working, and priorities.
- Handling difficult conversations: addressing resistance, missing commitments, and recurring deviations directly and constructively.
- Communicating project status and expectations transparently without unnecessary oversight.
- Using feedback and feedforward to strengthen performance, collaboration, and learning.
- Staying effective through changes, capacity constraints, and competing priorities – and actively preparing decisions.
- Using escalation effectively: the right level, a clear reason, solid facts, and concrete options for moving forward.
Methods
Short expert input combined with practical exercises, reflection, case work, and facilitated exchange. Participants work on real situations from their project environment and translate the learning directly into practice.
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Book tips
For anyone wanting to deepen their knowledge, we recommend the specialist literature from C-TO-BE. Order directly from us now.Virtual Negotiation. An Optimal Approach to Online Negotiations
Better Negotiating. The Training Book
Flexibel verhandeln. Die vier Fälle der NEGO-Strategie (German version)
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