Human dynamics are messy, complex, and opaque, and therefore—despite the risk—often left on the back burner. A common approach is to rely on contracts, employment agreements, and the threat of liquidated damages to keep everyone on the same track. But these are notoriously expensive to enforce and normally lead to an acrimonious relationship that causes even more problems down the road.
The solution is to mitigate these human dynamics risks up front. This course provides you with the insights, tools, and approaches to give you a better chance at project success.
You’ll leave with greater understanding, skills, and confidence to deal with the varying landscape of human dynamics and the ability to greatly reduce your project risk.
- Employ proven strategies that reduce interpersonal, inter-departmental and inter-partner friction.
- Understand how to configure your organizational, reward, and compensation models to promote cooperation and teamwork instead of undermining it.
- Increase your communication confidence so that issues do not remain unresolved until they explode.
- Apply a quick, simple, and repeatable technique to evaluate the basic interaction style of anyone you meet so that you can tailor your approach to their needs and create greater harmony.
Owner, Experienca
Trent Schumann has been a team and leadership development consultant since 1992 when he left the corporate IT world to help organizations build better teams and leaders. His clients are mainly technically-oriented companies in fields such as oil and gas, construction, IT, petrochemicals, and manufacturing. Though a large portion of his work is in Western Canada, his interest in inter-cultural dynamics has led him to work with clients in Latin America, Russia, Europe, Southeast Asia, and Iran. He has also taught a graduate level engineering course on Team Dynamics for Project Managers for the University of Calgary.
