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The 5 Team Leadership Principles for Project Success Webinar – Handouts (October 2011)

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Thomas Juli, Ph.D., PMP®, CSM®

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This Session is about Project Success

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How Do You Lead Your Project to Success? … by effective project management, i.e., project and team leadership

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Project Success

is the decisive factor in improving the chances for a project to succeed.

Without team leadership chances are that a project will be “just another project”.

Effective project management needs to have a solid foundation in project and team leadership.

Without leadership there is no direction in project management.

Team Leadership

Hubble rescue mission

What is Project Success Like? What does it entail?

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Mission of Mountain Guide Compare a project to a mountain tour and the project manager to a mountain guide

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Are you this mountain guide?

Lead your group to the top and return it home safely

Do you lead your team to the top together as a group and return it home safely?

The Project Manager = Supernatural Hero An illusion

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Team Leadership is About You and Your Team

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If you want to be an effective leader, you have to be a good team player, too.

Old, traditional view of „leadership“

Ingredients of Project Leadership

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Project Management

Individual Leadership

Teamwork Team Leadership

V C

P L R

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Nurture Collaboration

Promote Performance

The 5 Team Leadership Principles for Project Success

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Promote Team Performance

Cultivate Team Learning

Ensure Team Delivers Results

Build Vision

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

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Build Vision V C

P L R

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“The reason most people never

reach their goals is that they don't

define them, or ever seriously

consider them as believable or

achievable.

Winners can tell you where they

are going, what they plan to do

along the way, and who will be

sharing the adventure with them.”

Denis Watley

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

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Build Vision

2 - Motivation Statement

3 - Vision Statement

4 - Project Objective(s) Statement

1 - Analyze Playing Field

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

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

1. What are the top issues or risks we are dealing with? Why?

2. Who (individuals, groups, organizational

units, etc.) is affected by these issues or risks

and how? Why?

3. What are the impacts of these issues or risks

on them? What happens if nothing changes? Why?

Motivation Statement

The issue(s) of …

affect(s) …

The impact(s) of which is

(are) …

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Project Vision Statement What do you envision for your project?

1. What would be the ideal resolution to the identified root problem

addressed in the Motivation Statement?

Why?

2. What benefits can we expect from the

improved situation and who benefits from it?

Why?

3. What do we need to do to achieve this?

Why?

Vision Statement

The successful project

will (help) …

It will benefit …

In order to achieve the

solution we have to …

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Nurture Collaboration

Build Vision

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V C

P L R

Leadership Principles for Project Success Principle 2: 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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Nurture Collabo-

ration

2 – Team Norming

Workshop

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 Team Performance

V C

P L R

Leadership Principles for Project Success Principle 3: Promote Team 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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Promote Perform

ance

2 – Create right environment

3 – Empower your team

4 – Foster solution and

results orientation

5 – Invite productive competition

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 Team Learning

Promote Performance

V C

P L R

Leadership Principles for Project Success Principle 4: Cultivate Team 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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Cultivate Learning

2 – Project Reviews

3 – Training

4 – Extended Team

Learning 5 – Learning & Innovation

1 – Team Sync

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Leadership Principles for Project Success Principle 4: Cultivate Team Learning

What did you accomplish yesterday?

What will you accomplish

today?

What impediments are

in your way?

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Daily Sync-Meeting

Ø  Time-boxed to 15 minutes

Ø  Best when held first thing in the morning

Ø  All team members are required to attend

Ø  Primary objective: sync Ø  Start on time Ask 3 simple questions

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

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“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

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Vision

Collaboration

Performance

Learning Results

Necessary condition

Sufficient condition

Project Success Necessary and sufficient conditions

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The Dynamic Project Leadership Pyramid

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V C

P L

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Each principle has to

account for the others

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

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Ongoing project results serve as a reflection of leadership and how well the 5 principles are practiced.

They reveal the true quality of collaboration, performance,

and learning.

It is a form of quality assurance of effective leadership for project success

Ensuring ongoing interim results is important because …

In a Nutshell

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How Do You Lead Your Project to Success? … by effective project management, i.e., project and team leadership

31 © 2011 by Thomas Juli

Project Success

is the decisive factor in improving the chances for a project to succeed.

Without team leadership chances are that a project will be “just another project”.

Effective project management needs to have a solid foundation in project and team leadership.

Without leadership there is no direction in project management.

Team Leadership

Hubble rescue mission

V C

P L R

Leadership Principles for Project Success Getting from Vision to Results

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Vision

Results

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V C

P L R

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Nurture Collaboration

Promote Performance

The 5 Team Leadership Principles for Project Success

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Promote Team Performance

Cultivate Team Learning

Ensure Team Delivers Results

Build Vision

The Dynamic Project Leadership Pyramid Each principle has to account for all other principles as one unit

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V C

P L

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The Project Leadership Pyramid:

ü calls for

holistic leadership

Mutual respect,

People feel valued

Reality-based Optimism,

Commitment

People feel included, Trustworthy

Clear Organization, Accountability

The Dynamic Project Leadership Pyramid Each principle has to account for all other principles as one unit

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The Project Leadership Pyramid:

ü calls for

holistic leadership

ü it helps create

high-performance

contexts for teams

Mutual respect,

People feel valued

Reality-based Optimism,

Commitment

People feel included, Trustworthy

Clear Organization, Accountability

The Dynamic Project Leadership Pyramid Each principle has to account for all other principles as one unit

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The Project Leadership Pyramid:

ü calls for

holistic leadership

ü it helps create

high-performance

contexts for teams

ü it thus helps secure

project success.

A New Definition of Project Success

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Project success …

… is the safe journey from Project Vision to the final Project Results.

Project Success starts with you …

-> Know where you and your team are going,

what you plan to do

along the way,

and who will be sharing

the adventure with you.

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