leadership, happiness and project success - by thomas juli, 18 sept 2013

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Dr. Thomas Juli, PMP®, CSM®

Thomas Juli Empowerment Partners

Leadership, Happiness and Project Success Igniting the spirit of success within you, your team and your community

A virtual seminar for the PMI Information Systems Community of Practice September 18, 2013

Leadership – Happiness – Project Success

1. Find a clear focus of what you really want to achieve

2. Create a strategy through principle centered leadership

3. Resolve issues and align your priorities

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1. Find a clear focus of what you really want to achieve

Leadership – Happiness – Project Success

WHY?

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People don’t care what YOU do, they care why YOU do it.

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Motivation Why do you want to start the project in the first place?

1. What are the top challenges you are

dealing with?

2. Who (individuals, groups, organizational units, etc.) is affected by these challenges

and how?

3. What are the impacts of these

challenges on them? What happens if

nothing changes?

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Vision What do you envision for your project?

1. What would be the ideal resolution to the

identified root challenge addressed in the

Motivation Statement?

2. What benefits / added value does the

solution promise? 3. Who / What benefits

from the solution?

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Project What do you want to accomplish?

1. What concretely do you want to achieve?

2. What are your project

objectives?

3. What does „project success“

mean to you?

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Do you know your MVP?

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The MVP of your project

Your personal MVP

FACTS 1.  Our brains work better when they are "happy."

2.  There are concrete things we can do to make

our brains "happier.”

3.  When our brains are at "happy" that positivity will ripple out to others and can raise the productivity.

Your personal MVP

The MVP of your project team

Your MVP‘s for Project Success

Igniting the Spirit of Success within you, your team and your community

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PASSION comes from feeling like you are a part of something that you believe in, something bigger than yourself.

BUT

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For passion to survive, it needs STRUCTURE.

A WHY without the HOW’s,

passion without structure, has a very high

probability of failure.

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Building Structure

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Leadership – Happiness – Project Success

2. Create a strategy through principle centered leadership

Vision

Colla-boration

Performance Learning

Results

Leadership Principles for Project Success Getting from Vision to Results

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Why?

What?

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How?

Vision

Colla-boration

Performance Learning

Results

Leadership Principles for Project Success Getting from Vision to Results

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How?

Vision

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Performance Learning

Results

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Why?

What?

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How?

Leadership Principles for Project Success Principle 1: Build a Common and Inspiring Project Vision

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Build Vision V C

P L R

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Build Vision

2 - Motivation

3 - Vision

4 - Project Objective(s)

1 - Analyze Playing

Field

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Leadership Principles for Project Success Principle 1: Build a Common and Inspiring Project Vision

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Nurture Collaboration

Build Vision

.

V C

P L R

Leadership Principles for Project Success Principle 2: Nurture Collaboration

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Nurture Collabo-

ration

2 – Roles & Responsibilites

3 – Team Evolution

4 - Teamwork

1 – Team = Project‘s Heart &

Soul

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Leadership Principles for Project Success Principle 2: Nurture Collaboration

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Promote Performance

V C

P L R

Leadership Principles for Project Success Principle 3: Promote Team Performance

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Promote Performa

nce

2 – Create right environment

3 – Foster solution and

results orientation

4 – Empower your team

6 – Let it happen

7 – Celebrate Performance

1 – Be a role model

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Leadership Principles for Project Success Principle 3: Promote Team Performance

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Nurture Collaboration

Build Vision

Cultivate Learning

Promote Performance

V C

P L R

Leadership Principles for Project Success Principle 4: Cultivate Team Learning

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Cultivate Learning

2 – Project Reviews

3 – Training

5 – Encourage mistakes, celebrate

failure and learn

1 – Team Sync

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Ensure Results

Promote Performance

V C

P L R

Leadership Principles for Project Success Principle 5: Ensure that You and Your Team Deliver Results

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Vision

Colla-boration

Performance Learning

Results

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Why?

What?

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How?

Principle centered leadership helps build the necessary structure for success

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3. Resolve issues and align your priorities

Leadership – Happiness – Project Success

Reflect

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Use your MVP‘s as a compass.

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Leadership is about leading

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Leadership

Happiness

Project Success

YOU

Conclusion

On a personal note: My own MVP‘s

My Motivation

Empowering people and organizations through leadership

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My Vision

Thus, growing ideas into projects for success

Empowering people and organizations through leadership

My Project Seminar: „Leadership, Happiness and Project Success“

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Why? Because YOU matter

What? 2-3 days retreat for 5-20 or more people

Who? Individuals who are sincerely interested in finding new and transforming ways to project success

What you will learn:

1.  Find a clear focus of what you really want to achieve

2.  Create a strategy through principle centered leadership

3.  Resolve issues and align your priorities

Bring your own ideas or projects

with you or invite the community

to grow new ideas into projects for

success

My Contact Information

Email: tj@thomasjuli.com Web: www.ThomasJuli.com www.motivate2b.com/blog Twitter: thomasjuli, i_sparks

Dr. Thomas Juli Thomas Juli Empowerment Partners