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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

Dr. Thomas Juli, PMP, CSM Thomas Juli Empowerment Partners


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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

Leadership Happiness Project Success

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

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WHY?
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Our products are beautifully designed and user friendly. Wanna buy one?
Company that starts with WHAT

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Everything we do, we believe in challenging the status quo. We believe in thinking differently. The way we do this is by making our products beautifully designed and user friendly. Wanna buy one?

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People dont care what YOU do, they care why YOU do it.

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I have a dream! I have a plan!

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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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Do you know your MVP?

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The MVP of your project

Your personal MVP

One more thing


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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.

What if ?
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Your personal MVP

The MVP of your project team

Your MVPs for Project Success

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

PASSION comes from feeling like you are a part of something that you believe in, something bigger than yourself.
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BUT
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For passion to survive, it needs STRUCTURE. A WHY without the HOWs,

passion without structure, has a very high


probability of failure.

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Building Structure

Leadership Happiness Project Success

2. Create a strategy through principle centered leadership

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Leadership Principles for Project Success


Getting from Vision to Results

Why?
Vision Collaboration

How? Performance
Learning

What?

Results

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Leadership Principles for Project Success


Getting from Vision to Results

Vision Collaboration

How?

Performance

Learning

Results

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Leadership Principles for Project Success


Getting from Vision to Results

Why?
Vision Collaboration

How?

Performance

Learning

What?

Results

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Leadership Principles for Project Success


Principle 1: Build a Common and Inspiring Project Vision

Build Vision

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Leadership Principles for Project Success


Principle 1: Build a Common and Inspiring Project Vision

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't
assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Leadership Principles for Project Success


Principle 1: Build a Common and Inspiring Project Vision

2Motivation

1 - Analyze Playing Field

Build Vision

3 - Vision

4 - Project Objective(s)

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Leadership Principles for Project Success


Principle 2: Nurture Collaboration

Build Vision Nurture Collaboration


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Leadership Principles for Project Success


Principle 2: Nurture Collaboration

Players win games, teams win championships.

Bill Taylor

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Leadership Principles for Project Success


Principle 2: Nurture Collaboration

2 Roles & Responsibilites

1 Team = Projects Heart & Soul

Nurture Collaboration

3 Team Evolution

4 - Teamwork

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Leadership Principles for Project Success


Principle 3: Promote Team Performance

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Promote Performance

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Leadership Principles for Project Success


Principle 3: Promote Team Performance

Life has no rehearsals,


only performances.

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Leadership Principles for Project Success


Principle 3: Promote Team Performance

2 Create right environment 3 Foster solution and results orientation

1 Be a role model

Promote Performa nce


7 Celebrate Performance

4 Empower your team

6 Let it happen

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Leadership Principles for Project Success


Principle 4: Cultivate Team Learning

Build Vision Nurture Collaboration Promote Performance Cultivate Learning

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Leadership Principles for Project Success


Principle 4: Cultivate Team Learning

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993)

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Leadership Principles for Project Success


Principle 4: Cultivate Team Learning

2 Project Reviews

1 Team Sync

Cultivate Learning
5 Encourage mistakes, celebrate failure and learn

3 Training

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Leadership Principles for Project Success


Principle 5: Ensure that You and Your Team Deliver Results

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Promote Performance

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Ensure Results

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Leadership Principles for Project Success


Principle 5: Ensure that You and Your Team Deliver Results

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Leadership Principles for Project Success


Getting from Vision to Results

Why?
Vision Collaboration

How?

Performance

Learning

What?

Results

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Building Structure

Principle centered leadership helps build the necessary structure for success

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Leadership Happiness Project Success

3. Resolve issues and align your priorities

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Reflect

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Take small steps

... one at a time

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Use your MVPs as a compass.

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Leadership is about leading

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Conclusion

Leadership
YOU

Project Success

Happiness

On a personal note: My own MVPs

My Motivation

Empowering people and organizations through leadership

My Vision

Empowering people and organizations through leadership Thus, growing ideas into projects for success
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My Project
Seminar: Leadership, Happiness and Project Success
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

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My Contact Information

Email: tj@thomasjuli.com

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

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