Joyful Projects - the Secret to Real Excellence
Let's learn how to transform our idea into reality, a project, by first focusing on the team that will accomplish that epic adventure. Enabling Joy in Work will give you real project excellence, and with this important basis. We'll rely on the truths that are a book that has been the foundation of Western Civilization for thousands of years. Yes, let's also find out how Sunday's message helps us on Monday's mission.
Episodes
26 episodes
Episode 26. Blessed are….
For our final episode, let’s look at how to pull this all together…joy, excellence, communication, IDEAL. And, while those thoughts are rolling around, let’s listen with fresh perspective to the most powerful Sermon of all human his...
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Episode 25: Our Toolbag
Let’s take a minute to summarize it all together – this epic movie. We’ve laid some foundations, and weaved our story line that helps you lead a project, to lead a team that ideally transforms and idea into a reality. This will help tie toget...
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Episode 25
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Episode 24: Letting Go
The project is done, and your team is disbanding. You knew all along this was the natural course this epic movie would play out. Your job as leader isn’t just to say “good luck, hope your next job goes well.” You are their key reference, you...
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Episode 24
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Episode 23: Learning from the IDEAL
Nobody likes to recreate the wheel right? Do you like having to learn all over again what you learned in a previous project? Probably not. Do you wish someone before you had taken the time to make a notebook of the tricks of the trade? Pro...
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Episode 23
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Episode 22: Let’s Lift Up!
It’s now almost time to say we are done… our idea is now a reality. The team is taking a deep breath and the customer is delighted. But as a leader, we have some very important actions still to do. Let’s start by being lifted up....
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Episode 22
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Episode 21: Accomplishing Delightfully
Last episode we talked about achieving our goal. Absolutely necessary. This episode, we are going to look at the important; accomplishing desired, maybe even delightful, outcomes. We are in the part of our drama where the idea to reality tran...
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Episode 21
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Episode 20: Achieving Excellently
We are on a journey to transform an idea into a reality. That reality has both tangible and intangible dimensions. Let’s talk the tangible part – what actually got built, created, transformed. In most project management books, this is the foc...
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Episode 20
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Episode 19 Act – Turning Plans Into Actions & Ideas Into Realities
Yes! We are moving from words to actions, plans to production, thinking to doing. And, my goodness, there’s a lot going on! Back to back meetings, along with a deluge of emails and voicemails – enough to feel like we can’t keep our head above...
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Episode 19
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Episode 18: Encourage, Part 2 – Enabling Strength that is Joy
Encourage. What a beautiful word; what a beautiful gift to actually be able to do that. Let’s continue our look into how we can truly encourage, to give strength, to unleash inner joy. In this episode, let’s look how God has encouraged those...
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Episode 18
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Episode 17: Encourage – Enabling Strength that is Joy
We continue to transform fear, anxiety into joy. Remember our phrase from Mother Theresa? Joy is strength. How cool of a calling is this? As leaders, we transform those worries, those unknowns, those concerns that weaken us and we transform...
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Episode 17
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Episode 16: Encounter – Transforming Fear to Joy
In our project life, just like in our lives, there is that point at which we have to turn fear into joy. Like when we take on that new role for which we feel unprepared. It might be when we need to face someone with whom we have deep differ...
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Episode 16
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Episode 15: The Big Moments Before We Dig In!
Let’s exploreOur IDEAL project story as it continues to develop! We have enabled joy and engaged excellence by inviting, initiating, indoctrinating because these steps drove out our most common fears of being alone and without meaning. We con...
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Episode 15
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Episode 14: Define – It’s what a decision is supposed to do...
You are navigating the turbulent waters of getting the project and project team up to a smooth running momentum. You’ve been having those tough, learning conversations that we called dialogues and you’ve discovered quite a bit about people, p...
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Episode 14
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Episode 13: Discover– Opening the door to joy and real learning
You are in the rocky phase of the team and project dynamic, finding out all those aspects that are making transforming your idea into a reality a bit tougher. Last episode we talked about having the dialog, the learning conversation that didn...
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Episode 13
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Episode 12: There's Learning In That Storm!
We’ve now initiated and indoctrinated our team and ready to plunge in. Life on our project seems to be going just swimmingly. But, as they say, the devil is in the details. Realities of the project’s rocky spots are becoming evident. As the c...
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Episode 12
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Episode 11: Transform Your People from a Talented Group to an Aligned Team
You’ve invited and initiated your project team. That built the connection to the purpose and the people. Fantastic. But now... we need to make sure we have a truly solid team foundation – operating on the same values towards the same vi...
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Episode 11
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Episode 10: Let the movie begin! Setting the stage for joyful project accomplishment.
Enabling joy and Engaging excellence are the engine and wheels. Now it’s time for the joyful journey that will transform our idea into a reality. We’ll see that it’s IDEAL. Yes, both ideal – as in awesome – and an acronym. We will start wit...
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Episode 10
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Episode 9 People: Task – Keeping connected with communication
Enabling Joy, Engaging Excellence – the people and task dimensions of our project. What holds them together? Really, it’s more about what’s keeping us in touch with ideas, with plans, with predictions, with expectations…to put it plain...
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Episode 9
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Episode 8: People or Task? It's not an "or" it's an "and"!
People or Task – it’s not really an or, it’s an and.I remember back in the 80’s going to a seminar on something called the management grid, a seemingly mathematical way to look at how one balances being task or people oriented. Along the way...
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Episode 8
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Episode 7: Bringing the Outside In
Wouldn’t it be great if we could have complete control over all that affects our project success? But guess what – we live in the real world. In the pursuit of engaging excellence, we’ve talked about the Rational Four – scope, cost, quality a...
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Episode 7
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Episode 6: We Are Family
I hope that the popular song is playing in your head. I won’t sing it, I promise. In this episode, we continue unpacking the components of Engaging Excellence. Previously covering the Rational Four, we now delve into the Relational Three. Le...
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Episode 6
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12:29
Episode 5: Let’s dig deeper into Joy!
In this episode we are going to step back and reinforce our understanding of joy. We want to really appreciate how powerful this is, why Mother Theresa said that joy is strength. Remember, this podcast is helping us to take the power of Sund...
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Episode 5
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Episode 4: Engaging Excellence – Pillar One – The Rational Four
Just like Enabling Joy had three components, so does Engaging Excellence – but there’s are some layers to this onion. In this episode, we are going to look at the first pillar, the component I call the Rational Four. The other components, the...
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Episode 4
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Episode 3: The Opposite of Fear: The components of Joy
Joy can be a misunderstood term, and often we are not really sure that it means to enable joy. Now that we’ve distinguished joy happiness from pleasure happiness, we know that joy is strength, an ingredient. The key is to understand the compo...
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Episode 3
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Episode 2: Yes, there will be drama, but you’re the Movie Director!
As we mentally prepare for accomplishing a project, we put a lot of energy into budgets, schedules, requirements, procurement tactics, and getting people on board. That’s great! But are you really preparing for the dynamics of th...
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Episode 2
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