In this tutorial you will:
- Learn effective techniques to accelerate and enhance project delivery
- Refine beliefs, habits, and ways of working to strengthen your leadership skills
- Boost efficiency and maximize project outcomes – and minimize stress
Whether you’re a project leader or an independent consultant, you know the value of leading projects effectively—engaging participants and setting clear execution roadmaps to deliver high-value results on time. Yet, challenges like structuring work efficiently, influencing stakeholders, or optimizing your efforts can arise. If this resonates with you and you’re looking to accelerate your leadership and project management skills, this tutorial is for you.
The session will be highly practical, allowing you to apply effective tools and techniques to your real-life work situations in a dynamic way. Throughout the session, you will develop a personal action plan to identify and implement concrete improvements in your project management starting the very next day.
We will cover:
- Understanding your role as a project leader
- Setting high-value objectives
- Identifying stakeholder priorities, expectations, and behaviors
- Enhancing influence skills
- Planning the project cycle
- Optimizing decision making
- Tracking execution and driving iterative improvements
Who Will Benefit from This Tutorial?
This tutorial is designed for professionals who lead or manage projects and want to enhance their leadership, decision-making skills, and effectiveness. It is open to everyone, and ideal for:
- Project leads responsible for structuring and driving team projects or cross-functional initiatives
- Functional managers who handle projects alongside their core responsibilities
- Individual contributors taking on greater project leadership responsibilities
- Independent consultants, entrepreneurs, and freelancers working on multiple projects
Assignments
To enhance the learning experience, tutorial participants will be asked to complete a reading assignment and discovery questions prior to the session.
Instructor
Raquel Valverde is a coach and consultant, founder at DUCTIL, and an executive PhD student at Université Paris Dauphine. With 20 years of experience in corporate environments across Europe, the United States, and Latin America, she now helps individuals, teams, and organizations maximize their potential by reshaping beliefs, habits, and ways of working for more meaningful and effective work experiences. She is also a teacher at GoMasterCoach global school and at Université Paris Dauphine.