PTLP Brochure Final May 20

Your Strategy. Implemented.
PROJECT
TEAM
LEADER
PROGRAMME

PROJECT TEAM
LEADER PROGRAMME
INTRODUCING SKARBEK
LEADERSHIP EDUCATION FOR
THE 2020s
The Challenge
Leading without line authority is a challenge.
Add to this the complexities of matrix organisations
dispersed across continents and time
zones, and the challenge is only multiplied. It
is a challenge that tens of thousands of project
managers face every day of their lives, certain
in the knowledge that there must surely
be a better way of doing things and yet overwhelmed
– so often left to their own devices
with little training or education to help.
Skarbek understands this. Its client organisations
want to raise their capabilities. To do
this, they need to raise the capabilities of their
teams and sub teams – and in response, Skarbek
has developed a new, finely-tuned, experiential
learning programme that is explicitly
designed to equip people with first class
project management skills. Addressing very
real issues in the workplace, the programme
uniquely enables project managers to lead
without direct authority, but with confidence
in complex, fast evolving matrix organisations.
Developing your people’s skills, ability and
confidence is a lifelong investment in your
people. They benefit, you benefit. The Skarbek
Project Team Leader Programme is designed
to deliver measurable impact within 6
months.
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Background
Successful project management is dependent
on both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ skills. Everyone knows
that, but how often is it actually applied?
Among Skarbek clients there is a growing
realisation that training a few people in project
management methodology isn’t enough.
As well as the methodology, there needs to
be serious and considered investment in the
humanology – the understanding of how we
feel and respond in the way we do, our motivations
and behaviours, how we foster relationships
of trust and bring out the very best
in people. These are the keys to the doorway
of performance excellence.
In today’s complex world, essential project
management skills include the all-important
ability to lead without authority, manage
competing priorities, and make quick decisions
in order to continue working effectively
in a state of constant change – all this in geographically
dispersed teams. The Skarbek Project
Team Leader Programme equips project
managers with the very best methodology,
but also the smartest thinking in humanology
– a complete set of skills to be most effective.
Aim
To develop superb leadership capabilities for
Skarbek clients to outperform their competitors
and execute the very best strategies in an
increasingly complex world.
Objectives
To develop first class leadership, followership
and team working capabilities, in order to:
• Deliver strategic projects in a global matrix
organisation
• Deliver programmes and projects that span
internal functions, countries, regions and the
outsourced suppliers of goods and services
• Lead transformation and change initiatives
• Develop project management skills for small
teams operating without line authority or required
to work with high degrees of aligned
autonomy
• Deliver innovations in cross-functional teams
Skarbek recognises that one size does not fit
all. Organisations and people, thankfully, are
very different. It celebrates this difference and
offers bespoke learning to develop individu-

al’s self-awareness, knowledge and leadership
skills. Skarbek recognises that teams are often
formed specifically for a defined purpose, and
then disbanded; that many projects are delivered
in partnership with actors both inside
and outside an organisation; and that project
managers frequently have little or no line authority.
It is these challenges that Skarbek has
the experience and knowledge to overcome,
and the expertise to support others to do as
well, in order to drive teams and organisations
to consistently deliver the best results.
Scope
The Project Team Leader Programme (PTLP)
focuses on the key principles of leadership, fellowship
and high performing teams, and contains
a strong experiential learning element.
Recognising that leadership is a topic of considerable
scale, PTLP is modular and designed
to take place in three 2-day sessions delivered
over 3-4 months, with ample time between
sessions to put the newly learned skills into
practice and continue learning on projects
and programme related team assignments.
The curriculum is informed by research carried
out in numerous project teams within
global businesses, geographically dispersed
and with varying degrees of autonomy; the
military, working in remote locations, often
with tactical levels of resource and yet potentially
strategic impact; and the world of
mountaineering and exploration. Participants
are equipped with new understanding and
techniques in areas such as team and individual
flow state, emotional engagement, and
building delivery confidence.
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PTLP Delivery Approach
The PTLP combines the very best in-house Skarbek learning models with those of long established
and trusted partners, in order to deliver a uniquely complete learning package:
• Skarbek Associates
Skarbek support some of the world’s leading companies to implement their strategies, to grow and compete
successfully. Much of the time we are delivering alongside the client providing special resources to
make a difference. Often we are called upon to build organisational capability to deliver strategic projects
and change. To meet such needs, we have drawn upon our multi-sector experience and expertise in both
leading and developing high performance project teams to design and deliver a range of high impact
programmes.
• Centre for Army Leadership (CAL)
Based at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, CAL has a combined military and academic team of leadership
theorists and practitioners. Their mission is to maintain leadership excellence across the British Army
and keep it at the forefront of leadership thinking.
• Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS)
RMAS is where all officers in the British Army are trained to take on the responsibility of leading their soldiers.
During training, all officer cadets learn to live by the academy’s motto: ‘Serve to Lead’. Other Nations
choose to send their personnel to RMAS for Officer training because it is recognised as a world-leading
military training academy.
• Inspirational Development Group (IDG)
IDG help organisations achieve its strategic goals by developing the behaviour of your people. They design
award-winning, bespoke development programmes that promote and provide leadership skills and deliver
measurable benefits to your business, with particular focus on the enhanced leadership impact through
behavioural change.
PTLP is delivered using a mix of methods:
• Plenary core learning sessions and discussions
• Self-reflection
• Practical implementation assignments & papers
•Book Club - group discussions for concentrated
learning from the best available leadership
literature.
•Inspirational Leadership Talks - memorable insights
from recognised leaders
• Experiential learning - individual & team missions
to put learning into practice
Participants complete the programme armed
with a comprehensive blend of leadership skills
to successfully lead a team to delivery, and importantly
the confidence to translate learning
into action.
Target Audience
PTLP is primarily designed for people who
are either leading or have a key role in project
delivery:
Mid–Senior Managers / Directors responsible
for delivering in complex cross functional,
cross cultural, transformation & change environments:
• Project / Delivery Leads
• Functional Leads
• Project Team Members with sub-team leadership
roles
The programme is equally valuable for senior
/ functional leadership team members.
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PTLP Road Map
The Programme has three key themes: Leadership,
Followership and High Performance
Teams. It is delivered in three 2-day sessions
over a period of 3-4 months. Between the
events, the participants complete individual
and team assignments applying the learnings
and developing their leadership thinking
further through the Book Club activities.
Week –2
Week 1
Week 5-6
Week 11-12
Pre-Work
Introduction /
Preparation
Event 1
RMA Sandhurst
2 Days
Event 2
HQ / Conf. Centre
2 Days
Event 3
HQ / Conf. Centre
2 Days
• Leadership Survey
• Psychometric Tests
• Programme Overview
• Prep for Book Club
• Leading without
direct authority
• Servant (inspirational
/ purposeful / social
identity) Leadership
• Mission Command &
Decisions
• Leader confidence
Book Club Topic
Motivational Talk
• Resilience
• Mindset &
Engagement
• Emotion - Flow State
• Influencing Model
• Briefing / Comms
• Managing
Organsational Politics
Book Club Topic
Motivational Talk
Bringing it all together:
• Amphitrite Wrath
Exercise
• Mission Presentations
Motivational Talk
Graduation Event
Action Learning:
Individual & Mission
Assignments
Book Club Discussion
Action Learning:
Individual & Mission
Assignments
Book Club Discussion
Outcomes
Outcomes
Outcomes
Outcomes
Prepared and excited
for full engagement
with the programme
Feel special & invested
in
Understand and
apply core leadership
concepts & gain leader
confidence
Understand self
Mission delivery
Understand and apply
core Followership
concepts & gain
follower confidence
Understand core High
Performing Team
concepts & gain team
confidence
Mission delivery
Apply learnings in
a simulated and
facilitated exercise
Present Mission
Outcomes
Graduation
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Event One Overview
The first one of the three 2-day events is co-delivered by IDG and Skarbek at the RMA Sandhurst
where we are able to draw upon key leadership and team performance methodologies honed
over 200 years.
Objectives
• To inspire all attending with a vision for leadership of high-performance projects teams in a VUCA
setting
•To introduce the course cross-cutting themes: leadership, followership and high performance
teams
• To reflect and understand the nature of leading without line authority in a matrix organisation
• To understand the additional challenges and dynamics of leading project teams during organisational
change
Day 1 Day 2
AM
PM
AM
PM
Creative Problem
Solving
Review & Feedback
Leading Without
Authority
Plan-Brief-Delegate-
Motivate
Effective Followership
Leaders Code Model
Mission Command
Influencing Without
Authority
Pre-dinner Tour & Talk
Dinner & Networking
High Performing Teams
Remote & Virtual
Working
Practical
Implementation
Personal Actions
Change – Human
Dynamics
Uncertainty &
Ambiguity
Volatility – VUCA
Intro to Syndicate Team
Missions (STM’s)
Event Two Overview
Equipped with the experiential understanding of the core Leadership, Followership and High Performing
Team principles, we continue the journey by diving deeper into these topics to bring out
the most relevant solutions to the challenges today’s team leaders face daily. The topics are examined
through case studies, practical individual and team work.
Objectives
• To develop leaders understanding of resilience, how to monitor and manage their own team’s
resilience in order to thrive in high intensity project / business settings
• Understand challenges and enhance the ability to influence without authority across the matrix,
combining psychology and insights with experiential exercises
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• Learn and apply powerful communication methods and tools: structured briefing process, back
briefs
• Continued learning and development through applying course learnings on Syndicate Team
Mission
Day 1 Day 2
AM
PM
AM
PM
Resilience
Influencing Model
Pre-dinner Talk
Dinner & Networking
Briefing / Comms
Managing
Organsational Politics
Personal Actions
STM Development and
application of Insights
Progress Check
Event Three Overview
During this event we bring all learning elements together through a powerful team exercise that
allows the teams to apply their learnings while working and problem solving together. This is
also the chance to show off the results of the Mission assignments work achieved during the
programme.
Objectives
• To develop leaders understanding of the power of mindset and engagement emotion in teams
and getting project teams into flow state
• To be further inspired and energised to take the learnings back into the business
• To embed insights and learnings and test Leadership, Followership and Teamship in a challenging
simulation involving a Natural Disaster (Ex Amphitrite Wrath)
• To deliver presentations to senior leaders within the client organisation on their Syndicate Team
Missions and highlight insights and benefits of the programme
• Enjoy a Graduation dinner with senior leaders from client organisation and key guests (Black Tie)
Day 1 Day 2
AM
PM
AM
PM
Unlocking Humanology:
Mindset & Engagement
Emotion in Teams -
Flow State
GRIT
Pre-dinner Talk
Preparation for
Mission Ppts
Dinner & Networking
Bringing it all together:
Amphitrite Wrath
Exercise
Mission Presentations
Graduation
Programme Closes
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Topic Illustration – Resilience
For key initiative leaders operating without direct authority across the silos in an organisation, it
can feel much like our namesake Krystyna Skarbek’s experience behind enemy lines, working with
resistance groups and far away from HQ in London. Project managers need considerable reserves
of resilience to tackle their daily challenges and in the PTLP we fully unpack the elements of resilience
and equip participants with the knowledge and skills to build their protective capabilities.
We explore the topic through inspirational story telling drawn from the worlds of mountaineering
and exploration before examining the physiology and nature of work-related stress. Participants
have the opportunity to develop their own models of stress management and set of techniques
to manage their ability to deal with project strains, as well as how to how to foster resilient project
teams.
Finally, fully equipped to try their new approaches in real work, we provide wearable devices that
trace the draw down and replenishment of coping reserves over the course of the working week,
allowing participants to monitor stress levels and finalise the most effective resilience plan for
each individual.
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A Deeply Experienced Faculty
Each Programme will be conducted with a top-class faculty from Skarbek:
Lt General Sir Graeme Lamb
Lieutenant General Sir Graeme
Lamb is a former director of UK Special
Forces and Commander of the
British Field Army. He was Deputy
Commander to US General Petraeus
in Iraq and key adviser to US General
McChrystal in Afghanistan.
The epitome of a Special Forces Officer,
Graeme Lamb has commanded
conventional, airborne and Special
Forces in operations during
virtually all of the UK’s recent conflicts.
Throughout his career he has
found himself often operating overseas
and frequently in coalition
with others, in particular the United
States Special Forces.
He is a member of the RUSI Advisory
Council and is a senior Fellow
at Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global
Affairs where he lectures on Leadership.
With a reputation as “straighttalking
and unfussy” (the Guardian),
Graeme is widely recognised as an
authority on delivering strategic objectives,
and creating high-performance
teams.
Sir David Wright was the UK’s former
ambassador to both the Republic of
Korea and Japan. He has been Senior
Advisor to Barclays Bank having
previously been Vice-Chairman.
He has also been a member of Barclays’
Asia Pacific Executive Committee.
During his distinguished career
he was Private Secretary to HRH The
Prince of Wales and the first CEO of
British Trade International. As one
of the UK’s most senior diplomats,
Sir David provides valuable insights
into influencing and communication
skills.
Paul Heugh
Paul is an authority on Strategy Execution
and the leadership of strategic
projects. He has trained thousands
of people to manage and
lead projects influenced in part
by his own experience in successful
delivery of some of the most
complex programmes and projects
across complex global matrix
organisations. Paul has lectured in
Strategy Execution to institutions
around the world including INSEAD
and King’s College London.
woman in the world to climb the
Seven Peaks. Rebecca explores topics
such as resilience using powerful
and inspiring stories to stimulate
debate and discussion.
John Hall
An accomplished Project Director,
John blends his experience of different
organisations with his expertise
as an organisational psychologist
to help people frame their
organisational challenges in different
ways. John is an accomplished
ultra-marathoner who started his
working life as a Royal Engineer in
the British Army.
Sir David Wright
Rebecca Stephens
Rebecca is an accomplished motivational
speaker, journalist and adventurer.
The first British woman to
scale Mount Everest and the first
Sanja Petric
(PTLP Programme Director)
Sanja is a highly experienced Portfolio,
Programme and Project Director
responsible for building a number
of delivery capability functions
and operating at senior levels up to
Chief of Staff in global firms. She has
also been able to use her previous
teaching background in leading the
development and delivery of extensive
project management education
programmes. Sanja is responsible for
the design and delivery of the Project
Team Leader Programme.
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