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Webinar: Ethics and Project Success 21.12.2011

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Ethics and Project Success Webinar

Thomas Juli, Ph.D., PMP®, CSM®

Thomas Juli Empowerment Partners Picture taken from book cover of “Leadership Principles for Project Success” by Thomas Juli, CRC Press, New York, 2010

You Have a Choice


Respect Honesty

Fairness Responsibility



Today‘s Webinar 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.

Holistic Team Leadership

Hubble rescue mission



What is Project Success Like? What does it entail?

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A Project is Like a Mountain Tour

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Mission of 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?

This session is about you and your team




Mutual respect,

People feel valued

Reality-based Optimism,

Commitment

People feel included, Trustworthy

Clear Organization, Accountability

An Ingredient for Project Success Ethics and high-performance teams


Respect Honesty


Complying with the 4 codes

of ethics helps create the

right contexts for high-

performance teams

An environment characterized by

Project Leadership

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Effective project management

Individual and holistic 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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Build Vision

2 - Motivation Statement

3 - Vision Statement

4 - Project Objective(s) Statement

1 - Analyze Playing Field


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) …




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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Build Vision

.

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P L R

Leadership Principles for Project Success Principle 2: Nurture Collaboration




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Nurture Collabo-

ration

2 – Team Norming

Workshop

3 – Team Evolution

4 - Teamwork

1 – Team = Project‘s

Heart & Soul


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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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


Leadership Principles for Project Success Principle 3: Promote Team Performance

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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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Cultivate Learning

2 – Project Reviews

3 – Training

4 – Extended Team

Learning 5 – Learning & Innovation

1 – Team Sync


Leadership Principles for Project Success Principle 4: Cultivate Team Learning

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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





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 leadership principles & 4 codes of ethics are practiced.

They reveal the true quality of collaboration, performance,

and learning and the extent you comply with the 4 codes of ethics.

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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V C

P L R

Leadership Principles for Project Success Getting from Vision to Results

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Vision

Results


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


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.



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


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.

Holistic Team Leadership

Hubble rescue mission

A New Definition of Project Success

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Project success …

… is the safe and ethical 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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Respect Honesty


Ethics and Project Success

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Use the Code of Ethics as a tool to help make choices

and pave the path to Project Success.

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