An important role of the project manager is to communicate project progress to the corporate sponsor and project steering committee. Understanding team leadership will reinforce the project manager’s role and authority on a project and the importance of a structured team model.
This assignment requires the student to prepare a presentation with speaker notes that describes the team structure for the project. Your audience for the presentation is the project sponsor and other executives of the company.
Use the same company and project idea you use in the Learning Team assignment this week.
Create a 10- to 15-slide MSPowerPoint presentation.
Cite at least two credible references. Wikipedia, eHow, businessdictionary.com, and the like are not acceptable academic sources.
Format the presentation consistent with APA guidelines. Include APA-formatted citations on all slides, as necessary.
Add an introductory slide, like the cover page in your individual reports, using APA format.
Avoid the use of first-person and similar verbiage.
Implement the following outline to ensure all required topics are addressed.
Include speaker notes for all slides.
List all references on the last slide.
- Introduction
- Team structure fundamentals
- Size
- Composition
- Governance
- Identity
- Interactions
- Mindset
- Stage model to be used (Situational Leadership or Group Development)
- Life cycle and leadership needs
- Describe each stage of the project’s life cycle
- Describe the leadership needs at each stage of the project’s life cycle
- Project manager roles
- Internal to the organization
- planner
- coordinator
- problem solver
- team leader
- External to the organization
- spokesperson
- liaison
- champion
- negotiator
- controller
- Conclusion