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The 5 Team Leadership Principles for Project Success

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Leadership Principlesfor Project Success

Thomas Juli, Ph.D., PMP®, CSM®

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Nurture Collaboration

Promote Performance

The 5 Leadership Principles for Project Success

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Promote Performance

Cultivate Learning

Ensure Results

Build Vision


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Leadership Principles for Project SuccessPrinciple 1: Build a Common Project Vision

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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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BuildVision

2 - Motivation Statement

3 - Vision Statement

4 - Project Objective(s) Statement

1 - AnalyzePlaying Field



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

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

2. Who (individuals, groups, organizationalunits, etc.) is affected

by these issues orrisks and how? Why?

3. What are theimpacts of theseissues or risks on

them? Why?

MotivationStatement

The issue(s) of …

affect(s) …

The impact(s) of which is

(are) …

1. What are the top solutions or

opportunities youenvision? Why?

2. Who is interestedin these solutions oropportunities, who

benefits from them? Why?

3. What are thebenefits of the

solutions oropportunities? Why?

The solution(s) /

opportunitie(s) of …

interest(s) …

The effect(s) of which is

(are) …

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Project Vision StatementWhat do you envision for your project?

1. What needs tobe done toresolve the

situation? Why?

2. What benefitscan we expect

from the improvedsituation? Why?

3. What do weneed to do

achieve this? Why?

1. What needs to bedone to bring aboutthe new situationpromised by the

solutions or opp(s)? Why?

2. What negative impacts or obstacleswill the solution haveor bring with it? Why?

3. What do we need todo to overcome theseimpacts or obstacles?

Why?

VisionStatement

The successful project

will (help) …

It will benefit …

In order to achieve the

solution we have to …

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Leadership Principles for Project SuccessPrinciple 2: Nurture Collaboration



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“Players win games, teams win championships.”

Bill Taylor

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2 – Team Norming

Workshop

3 – Team Evolution

4 - Teamwork

1 – Team = Project‘s Heart

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Leadership Principles for Project SuccessPrinciple 3: Promote Performance


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„Life has no rehearsals,

only performances.”



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Promote Perform

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2 – Create rightenvironment

3 – Empoweryour team

4 – Foster solution and

resultsorientation

5 – Inviteproductivecompetition

6 – Let ithappen

7 – CelebratePerformance

1 – Be a rolemodel



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Cultivate Learning

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Leadership Principles for Project SuccessPrinciple 4: Cultivate Learning



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“Learning is not compulsory...neither is survival.”

W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993)

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CultivateLearning

2 – Project Reviews

3 – Training

4 – Extended Team

Learning

5 – Learning & Innovation

1 – Team Sync




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What did youaccomplishyesterday?

What will youaccomplish

today?

Whatimpediments are

in your way?


Daily Sync-Meeting

� Time-boxed to 15 minutes

� Best when held firstthing in the morning

� All team members arerequired to attend

� Primary objective: sync� Start on time

Ask 3 simple questions

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Leadership Principles for Project SuccessPrinciple 5: Ensure Results



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Leadership Principles for Project SuccessPrinciple 5: Ensure 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

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Project SuccessNecessary and sufficient conditions



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The Dynamic Project Leadership Pyramid

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Each principle has to

account for the others

The Project Leadership

Pyramid calls for

holistic leadership .

In a Nutshell

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How Do You Lead Your Project to Success?… by effective project management, i.e., project leade rship

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… is the decisive factor in improving the chances for a project to succeed. Without 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.


Leadership …

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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PREFACE

(1) THE WORLD OF PROJECTS

PART I: THE PROJECT LEADERSHIP PYRAMID(2) INTRODUCING THE PROJECT LEADERSHIP PYRAMID(3) PRINCIPLE 1: BUILD VISION(4) PRINCIPLE 2: NURTURE COLLABORATION(5) PRINCIPLE 3: PROMOTE PERFORMANCE(6) PRINCIPLE 4: CULTIVATE LEARNING(7) PRINCIPLE 5: ENSURE RESULTS(8) THE DYNAMIC PYRAMID

PART II: THE PROJECT LEADERSHIP PYRAMID IN PRACTIC E(9) PRACTICING THE PRINCIPLES(10) PROJECT INITIATION AND SET-UP(11) EXECUTION(12) PROJECTS IN TROUBLE(13) CLOSING A PROJECT(14) SUMMARY

PART III: THE PERSONAL LEADERSHIP PYRAMID(15) HOW TO BECOME AN EFFECTIVE PROJECT LEADER

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