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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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