Project success is such an exciting, exhilarating and rewarding experience. Alas, most projects these days still fail. This presentation explores two crucial ingredients for project success: empowering leadership and happiness. It explains why and how leadership can help build successful projects by actively accounting for happiness on the individual, group, project and organizational levels. Attendees will learn how to find a clear focus of what they really want to achieve, create a strategy through principle centered leadership, resolve project issues and align their priorities for happiness and project success. This interactive presentation helps project practitioners find a clear focus of what they really want to achieve on the individual, group and organizational level. It thus unlocks energy to flow and act from the whole, practice leadership, be happy and achieve project success. The presentation targets anyone who is sincerely interested in finding new and transforming ways to project success. These can be individuals, project managers, project team members, line managers, line organizations, companies or social groups. NOTE: Handout of webinar for the PMI Information Systems Community of Practice, 18 September 2013 If you like to receive a personal pdf file of this presentation, please contact me directly at http://motivate2b.com/about/contact/

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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

2. 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

4. WHY?
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5. People don’t care what YOU
do, they care why YOU do it.
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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. Do you know your MVP?
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11. The MVP of your project

12. Your personal MVP

13. 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.

14. Your personal MVP

15. The MVP of your project team

16. Your MVP‘s for Project Success

17. 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.

18. BUT
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19. 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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20. Building Structure

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Leadership – Happiness – Project Success
2. Create a strategy through
principle centered leadership

22. 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?

23. Vision
Colla-
boration
Performance
Learning
Results
Leadership Principles for Project Success
Getting from Vision to Results
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How?

24. 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?

25. Leadership Principles for Project Success
Principle 1: Build a Common and Inspiring Project Vision
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Build Vision
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Build
Vision
2 -
Motivation
3 - Vision
4 - Project
Objective(s)
1 - Analyze
Playing
Field
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Principle 1: Build a Common and Inspiring Project Vision

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Nurture Collaboration
Build Vision
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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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Principle 2: Nurture Collaboration

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Promote Performance
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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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Principle 3: Promote Team Performance

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Nurture Collaboration
Build Vision
Cultivate Learning
Promote Performance
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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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Principle 4: Cultivate Team Learning

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Ensure Results
Promote Performance
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Leadership Principles for Project Success
Principle 5: Ensure that You and Your Team Deliver Results
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Colla-
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Performance
Learning
Results
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Getting from Vision to Results
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Why?
What?
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How?

35. Principle centered leadership helps build the
necessary structure for success

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3. Resolve issues and align your priorities
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37. Reflect
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Use your MVP‘s as a compass.

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Leadership is about leading

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41. Leadership
Happiness
Project
Success
YOU
Conclusion

42. On a personal note: My own MVP‘s

43. 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

45. 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

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