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. Visit http://www.motivate2b.com/institute to learn more.

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Dr. Thomas Juli, PMP®, CSM®
Thomas Juli Empowerment Partners
www.motivate2b.com
Leadership, Happiness and
Project Success
Igniting the spirit of success
within you, your team and your community
Project Zone Congress 2014
30 April 2014
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2. It might seem crazy what I'm 'bout to say
Sunshine she's here, you can take a break
I'm a hot air balloon that could go to space
With the air, like I don't care baby by the way
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do
- Pharrell Williams
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Pleasure
Purpose
Passion

4. Happiness actually fuels success,
not the other way around
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Reference: Achor, S. (2010). The Happiness Advantage:
The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel
Success and Performance at Work (p. 256). New York:
Random House.
1. Our brains work
better when they are
"happy.”
2. When our brains are
at "happy" that
positivity will ripple
out to others and can
raise the productivity.

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Vision
Collaboration
Performance
Learning
Results
Pleasure
Purpose
Passion
Leadership Happiness+ =
Project
Success

6. HOW?
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7. 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

9. People don’t care what YOU
do, they care why YOU do it.
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10. Motivation
Why do you want to start your project in the first place?
1. What‘s (are) the
issue(s)?
2. Who is affected
and how?
3. What are the
impacts of the
issue(s)? What
happens if nothing
changes?
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Why? Why? Why?

11. Vision
What do you envision?
1. What would be
the ideal resolution
to the identified
root challenge?
2. What benefits /
added value does
the solution
promise?
3. Who benefits
from the solution?
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Why? Why? Why?

12. Project(s)
What do you want to accomplish?
1. What
concretely do you
want to achieve?
2. What does
„project success“
mean to you?
3. What are your
immediate next
steps?
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13. The MVP of your project
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Motivation,
Vision and
Project(s)
are the MVP for
Project Success

14. Your personal MVP
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15. Who am I?
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16. One more thing
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17. Your personal MVP
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18. The MVP of your team
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19. 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.

20. Your MVP‘s spark WOW projects for success
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WOW

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

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

26. 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?

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3. Resolve issues and align your priorities
Leadership – Happiness – Project Success

28. Reflect
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Use your MVP‘s as a compass.

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Take
small
steps
... one at a time
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Take action

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Succeed and celebrate

32. Share
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33. Leadership
Happiness
Project
Success
WOW
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Nurture leadership, happiness, project success

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Our
Mission
We
help
individuals
and
organiza4ons
grow
their
ideas
and
challenges
into
WOW
projects
and
businesses
for
success
through
Happy
Ideas
&
Projects
Camps,
coaching,
and
business
partnerships.

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Happy
Ideas
&
Projects
(HIP)
Camps
A
combina4on
of
tradi4onal
conference
and
seminar
setups
with
ac4vi4es
for
the
body,
mind
and
spirit
in
an
inspira4onal
environment,
thus
offering
a
holis4c
and
fun
experience

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Happy
Ideas
&
Projects
(HIP)
Camps
Ø Inspiring
speakers
and
topics
of
interest
Ø Open
Space
for
ideas
to
emerge
Ø Building
MVP’s
for
WOW
Projects,
matching
ideas
with
people,
investors,
networks
and
communiAes

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Sustainable
Results
² Happy
Ideas
&
Projects
(HIP)
Camps
² Coaching
² Business
Partnerships

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Visit
www.mo4vate2b.com/Ins4tute
for
more
informa4on
and
let’s
build
this
Ins4tute
together.

39. My Contact Information
Dr. Thomas Juli
Rahmengasse 9
69120 Heidelberg, Germany
tj@thomasjuli.com
www.motivate2b.com/Institute
Twitter: thomasjuli
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