Six people on your project, none of them work for you: how do you get them to truly commit?
Project manager, point of contact, coordinator: you have to deliver with teams that don’t report to you and whose priorities change without your input. You can neither demand nor reward. This module shows you how to win voluntary commitment: what you can offer in return, how to seal an agreement that holds with each person’s manager, and how to make it last to the end.
~20 min at your own paceKey skill: Leading Without AuthorityAvailable in FR + ENNo prerequisites
What you’ll take away
- the three sources of legitimacy for a manager without authority: mission, competence, relationship
- the currencies you can trade to get what your project needs
- the three-way agreement method, with the team member and their manager
Who it’s for
Project managers, points of contact, coordinators, and managers whose teams are needed.
Learning objectives
- Distinguish compliance obtained through power from voluntary commitment, and build your legitimacy on mission, competence, and relationship.
- Identify the currencies that matter to each person and to their manager before making a request.
- Negotiate a three-way agreement with the team member and their line manager, and state it with a date and mutual commitments.
- Make the agreement last by keeping your promises, making contributions visible, and addressing disengagement early.
How does this module work?
The steps of the Adaptive module.
- Self-assessmentOn nine dimensions, to gauge current habits and guide the practice.
- Expert videoA ~10 min video with three pauses for reflection.
- Practice scenariosThe first two scenarios chosen from the self-assessment, then sixteen more, optional. Every answer gets feedback: what it leads to, and one way to improve.
- Dated commitmentOne action to try, written by the learner or chosen from the suggestions.
- Memo to downloadKey takeaways, questions, commitment, personal notes, and checklists.
Duration: ~20 min. Excluding bonus practice scenarios and optional in-depth content.
