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The Shrinking Project Manager Insights from Psychology for Project Success

The Shrinking Project Manager Insights from Psychology for Project Success. Rashid N Kapadia PMP PMI-H April 9, 2013 Stracks Farm: April 10, 2013 HESS Club. You Don’t Have To Be HAPPY T o Work Here … But It Helps!!. Big Idea # 1. Organizations Don’t Get Things Done. Plans

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The Shrinking Project Manager Insights from Psychology for Project Success

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  1. The Shrinking Project ManagerInsights from Psychology for Project Success Rashid N Kapadia PMP PMI-H April 9, 2013 Stracks Farm: April 10, 2013 HESS Club

  2. You Don’t Have To Be HAPPYTo Work Here … But It Helps!! Big Idea # 1

  3. Organizations Don’t Get Things Done

  4. Plans Don’t Get Things Done

  5. Projects Don’t Get Things Done

  6. ONLY People Get Things Done

  7. Either HELP or HINDER

  8. The Wisdom Of These Words Has Shaped My Life

  9. Big Idea # 2 … Getting Things Done ? Happiness HELPSPeople This is Biology Unhappiness HINDERS People

  10. PM Knowledge Areas • Stakeholder Management • Monitoring and Controlling

  11. What is Happiness?

  12. Sources of Happiness

  13. Pleasure / Positive Emotions • Greater activity in left pre-frontal cortex

  14. Pleasure / Positive Emotions • Orderly heart wave patterns

  15. Pleasure / Positive Emotions • More neurotransmitters • Dopamine • Endorphin • Oxytocin • Serotonin

  16. This is Biology Happiness is both: A state of mind A state of body In Our Brains: More than 100,000 chemical reactions / second

  17. Sources of Happiness

  18. Yerkes-Dodson Law

  19. Flow • Loss of sense of time • Loss of sense of self • Experienced more @ work • Associated with the acquisition of mastery & expertise • Relatively unrecognized as source of happiness

  20. Passion / Engagement / Flow

  21. Passion / Engagement / Flow Flow Channel current challenges exceed current skills…. but not by too much

  22. Flow • Experienced more @ work • Associated with the acquisition of mastery & expertise • Relatively unrecognized as source of happiness

  23. Martin Seligman Options Trader Story

  24. Passion / Engagement / Flow

  25. Sources of Happiness

  26. Purpose It is not about me It is about someone or something that is outside of me

  27. Discover Your Purpose

  28. Sources of Happiness

  29. Sources of Happiness

  30. HAPPINESSAristotle Eudemonia (Greek ) = Happiness better translation Human Flourishing

  31. HAPPINESSMatthieuRicard Happiness is a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. It is more than a mere pleasant feeling, emotion or mood. It is an optimal state of being

  32. HAPPINESSShawn ACHOR The experience of positive emotions, combined with deeper feelings of meaning & purpose Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential

  33. You Don’t Have To Be HAPPYTo Work Here … But It Helps!! Big Idea # 1

  34. You Don’t Have To Bring HUMAN FLOURISHINGTo Work Here … But It Helps!!!

  35. Robust Finding Outliers Exceptionally happy people have excellent social relationships

  36. Robust Finding Countless Studies: Social Relationships = Best guarantee Prescription for high performance Heightened well being Lowered stress

  37. Nicolaus Copernicus

  38. Copernican Inversion Nicolaus Copernicus

  39. Another Copernican Inversion

  40. Another Copernican Inversion

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