Seminar: leadership of projects in the matrix organisation

Aims

• Understanding the special aspects of project leadership in the matrix organisation
• Safely navigating the individual project in the environment of the matrix organisation
• Acquiring implementation impulses for individual project work

Contents

• Exchanging experiences on project work in the matrix
• The basic aspects of managing complex projects in the matrix organisation – horizontal governance
• Establishing and influencing a matrix-oriented project culture
• Securing the strategic anchoring of the project in the project portfolio of the matrix
• The central significance and specific design of the communication and information architecture and managing feedback processes in the project and in the matrix
• Leadership instruments in project management
• The 7 key capabilities your project team needs to be successful in the matrix
• Integrating the demands of different groups within the project and creating a balance of interests
• Leadership consequences resulting from the form of matrix and complexity of projects
• Clarification of the task with the different stakeholders involved as a leadership impulse
• Cycle of the task – project concept – contract as a negotiating process
• Cooperation between the line and the project in the 'two-boss' model of the matrix
• Dynamics and politics in complex project and management architectures
• Typical problems for matrix organisations and their effect on the work of the project
• Systematically identifying and overcoming project obstacles
• Force field analysis
• Forming and involving the project team
• Selection of the members of the project team
• Integration of new or temporary members of the project team
• Cooperation with internal / external service providers
• Case work: consequences for the individual project

Methods: brief input from trainer, work in small groups, case work, personal analysis of the individual project situation

Target group: experienced project leaders

Duration: 2 - 3 days