Webinar | How to Build and Sustain Effective Project Teams
While contracts define legal relationships, it is the teamwork process that builds the strong working relationships essential for successful project delivery. This seminar explores how a structured approach—grounded in commitment, communication, and collaboration—creates the conditions for trust, alignment, and high‑performing project teams.
Participants will learn practical strategies for building and sustaining effective teams by establishing shared goals, strengthening team dynamics, and creating frameworks that support alignment, trust, and long‑term collaboration.
Drawing on the instructor’s experience implementing teamwork and collaborative processes on more than 250 projects across Canada and the United States, this interactive session provides field‑tested insights into overcoming barriers to teamwork and aligning diverse project teams for success.
Key discussion topics
- common obstacles that prevent collaboration on major projects
- defining goals and objectives
- success criteria and critical success factors
- team structure, roles, and responsibilities
- managing risks, assumptions, and stakeholders
- monitoring performance through project health checks
- issue resolution and dispute management mechanisms
- establishing effective ground rules for team behaviour
Learning outcomes
By the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:
- apply teamwork principles to strengthen collaboration on future projects
- align organizational and team goals to improve project outcomes
- enhance planning discipline and commitment to timelines
- foster buy‑in and shared accountability across project teams
- define clear project goals, ground rules, and success metrics
- implement performance evaluation tools to strengthen team relationships
- develop structured dispute‑resolution processes for timely issue management
About the presenter
Dr. George Jergeas is a civil engineer trained at the University of Baghdad, with an M.Sc. and PhD in construction project management from Loughborough University of Technology in the U.K. He has more than 50 years of combined industry and academic experience, including serving as a professor at the University of Calgary from 1994 to 2021, where he is now professor emeritus of project management. He is also chair of iProjects Inc.
Before joining academia, he worked extensively on major civil infrastructure projects and in claims and disputes. His research, teaching, and consulting focus on improving project predictability, with emphasis on risk analysis, contractual risk allocation and management, governance, assurance and oversight, front‑end planning, leadership, team alignment, and claims avoidance and dispute resolution. He has led major investigations into the root causes of cost overruns and delays on Alberta megaprojects. In recognition of his exceptional qualities and outstanding service to the country and the province of Alberta in the fields of education and construction project management, he was recently awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal.