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The 5 Team Leadership Principles
for Project Success
Thomas Juli, Ph.D., PMP®, CSM®

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

This Session is about Project Success

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It makes us reality looks different?
But, what if feel proud
Project Success is Great

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Remember the flawed Hubble telescope?

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How Do You Lead Your Project to Success?
Hubble rescue mission

Project Success

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Hubble Space Telescope retrieved from
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… by effective project management, i.e., project and team leadership
Effective project management needs to
have a solid foundation
in project and team leadership.
Without leadership there is no direction in
project management.
Project Success

Team Leadership
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”.


What is Project Success Like?

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A Project is Like a Mountain Tour

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Let„s Start our Tour

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The Project Manager as the Mountain Guide

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Mission of Mountain Guide

Lead your group to the top
and
return it home safely
Are you this mountain guide?

Do you lead your team
to the top together as a group

and

return it home
safely?



Project Success


and it„s about You

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the Project Manager

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the Project Manager, and your team


WRONG



Project Success


and it„s about You

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The Project Manager


The Project Manager = Supernatural Hero
An illusion


The Project Manager and Its Team
“Traditional” View


This session is about you and your team


Project Leadership

Project Management
Individual Leadership Team Leadership
Teamwork

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for Project Success

Build Vision
V
Nurture Collaboration C
Promote
Promote Performance
Team Performance
P
Cultivate
Team Learning L
Ensure Team
Delivers Results
R

Project Success & the Image of the Pyramid

V
C
P
L
R

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The Project Leadership Pyramid ®

C
P
L

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Leadership Principles for Project Success
Getting from Vision to Results

Vision

Results

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The Project Leadership Pyramid & the 5 Team

V
C
P
L
R


Principle 1: Build a Common Project Vision

Build Vision
V
C
P
L
R



“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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Build a common
project vision.



2 - Motivation
Statement

1 - Analyze Build 3 - Vision
Playing Field Statement
Vision

4 - Project
Objective(s)
Statement



2 - Motivation
Statement

Vision

4 - Project
Objective(s)
Statement


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

Motivation
Statement
The issue(s) of …
2. Who (individuals,
3. What are the
1. What are the top groups, organizational
issues or risks we are units, etc.) is affected
impacts of these affect(s) …
issues or risks on
dealing with? Why? by these issues or
them? Why?
risks and how? Why? The impact(s) of which is

(are) …

The solution(s) /
2. Who is interested
1. What are the top 3. What are the opportunitie(s) of …
in these solutions or
solutions or benefits of the
opportunities, who
opportunities you solutions or
benefits from them? interest(s) …
envision? Why? opportunities? Why?
Why?
The effect(s) of which is

(are) …



2 - Motivation
Statement

Vision

4 - Project
Objective(s)
Statement


Project Vision Statement
What do you envision for your project?

Vision
Statement
1. What needs to 2. What benefits 3. What do we
be done to can we expect need to do
resolve the from the improved achieve this? The successful project
situation? Why? situation? Why? Why?
will (help) …

It will benefit …

In order to achieve the
1. What needs to be
done to bring about 2. What negative 3. What do we need to
the new situation impacts or obstacles do to overcome these solution we have to …
promised by the will the solution have impacts or obstacles?
solutions or opp(s)? or bring with it? Why? Why?
Why?



2 - Motivation
Statement

Playing Field Vision Statement

4 - Project
Objective(s)
Statement


Principle 2: Nurture Collaboration

Build Vision
V
.
P
L
R



“Players win games,
teams win championships.”

.
Bill Taylor

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2 – Team
Norming
Workshop

1 – Team =
Nurture
3 – Team
Project„s Heart
& Soul
Collabo- Evolution
ration

4 - Teamwork


Team Development Stages

Beware that every team will go through 4 distinct phases.

Forming Storming Norming Performing



2 – Team
Norming
Workshop

1 – Team =
Nurture
3 – Team
Project„s Heart
& Soul
Collabo- Evolution
ration

4 - Teamwork


Principle 3: Promote Team Performance

V
C
Promote
Team Performance P
L
R



„Life has no rehearsals,
only performances.”

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2 – Create right
environment

1 – Be a role 3 – Empower
model your team

Promote
Perform 4 – Foster
7 – Celebrate
Performance ance solution and
results
orientation

5 – Invite
6 – Let it
productive
happen
competition



2 – Create
right
environment
model your team

Promote
7 – Celebrate
results
orientation

5 – Invite
6 – Let it
productive
happen
competition



2 – Create right
environment

model your team

Promote
7 – Celebrate
results
orientation

5 – Invite
6 – Let it
productive
happen
competition



2 – Create right
environment

model your team

Promote
7 – Celebrate solution and
Performance ance results
orientation

5 – Invite
6 – Let it
productive
happen
competition



2 – Create right
environment

model your team

Promote
7 – Celebrate
results
orientation

5 – Invite
6 – Let it
happen productive
competition



2 – Create right
environment

model your team

Promote
7 – Celebrate
results
orientation

6 – Let it 5 – Invite
productive
happen competition



2 – Create right
environment

model your team

Promote
7 – Celebrate
results
orientation

5 – Invite
6 – Let it
productive
happen
competition


Acknowledge and Celebrate Performance

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Principle 4: Cultivate Team Learning

Build Vision
V
Promote Performance P
Cultivate
Team Learning L
R



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

W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993)

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2 – Project
Reviews

1 – Team
3 – Training
Synch
Cultivate
Learning

4 – Extended
5 – Learning
Team
& Innovation
Learning


Daily Sync-Meeting

 Time-boxed to 15
minutes
 Best when held first
thing in the morning
 All team members are
required to attend
 Primary objective: sync
 Start on time

Ask 3 simple questions

What did you What will you What
accomplish accomplish impediments are
yesterday? today? in your way?



2 – Project
Reviews

1 – Team
3 – Training
Sync
Cultivate
Learning

4 – Extended
5 – Learning
Team
& Innovation
Learning


Principle 5: Ensure Team Delivers Results

V
C
Promote Performance P
L
Ensure Team
Delivers Results
R



“However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.”

Sir Winston Churchill
(1874 - 1965)
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Project Success
Necessary and sufficient conditions

Vision
Collabora Sufficient
tion condition

Performance

Necessary
condition Learning

Results


The Dynamic Project Leadership Pyramid

V
Each principle has to
C
account for the others
P
L



Keep the

project vision
in mind



… and ensure ongoing interim results



Ensuring ongoing interim results is important because …

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


… by effective project management, i.e., project and team leadership
Effective project management needs to
have a solid foundation
in project and team leadership.
Without leadership there is no direction in
project management.
Project Success

Team Leadership
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”.



Vision
Vision

C
P
L
Results Results



Vision
V
C
P
L
Results
R


for Project Success

Build Vision
V
Promote
Promote Performance
Team Performance
P
Cultivate
Team Learning L
Ensure Team
Delivers Results
R

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

The Project Leadership Pyramid:

 calls for V
holistic leadership Mutual
Reality-based
respect, C optimism,
people feel
 it helps create valued
commitment

high-performance
P
contexts for teams
People L Clear
feel included, organization,
 it thus helps secure trustworthy accountability

project success


A New Definition of Project Success
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.


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

Thomas Juli, Ph.D., PMP®, CSM®
Managing Director, Thomas Juli Empowerment Partners

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