Joyful Projects - the Secret to Real Excellence

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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.

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Episode 26. Blessed are….

Nov 23 2021 11 mins

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 history.

Episode 25: Our Toolbag

Nov 11 2021 13 mins

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 together what we talked about in the first few episode…sort of a cliff note version on how to see how cool it is when we apply this approac

Episode 24: Letting Go

Nov 04 2021 9 mins

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 are their key networking contact. Be proactive. Write the referrals and recommendations. Help them to see all the great achievements and

Episode 23: Learning from the IDEAL

Oct 27 2021 13 mins

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? Probably yes. Now you’re the leader and you can make it so that others will learn from your experience. This is more valuable than leaving a legac

Episode 22: Let’s Lift Up!

Oct 11 2021 12 mins

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.

Episode 21: Accomplishing Delightfully

Sep 23 2021 14 mins

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 transformation impacts the hearts and minds of our team and our customer.

Episode 20: Achieving Excellently

Sep 11 2021 9 mins

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 focus. For us, it’s only the first half of being an IDEAL project, but it’s the necessary half. In our next episode, we’ll talk about t

Episode 19 Act – Turning Plans Into Actions & Ideas Into Realities

Aug 27 2021 13 mins

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 water, let alone lead our team. So, let’s make sure we do the leading things and the managing things well. It’s time to take a hint

Episode 18: Encourage, Part 2 – Enabling Strength that is Joy

Aug 10 2021 15 mins

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 He sent on Mission and then let’s see how we can learn from the perfect examples that God has provided.

Episode 17: Encourage – Enabling Strength that is Joy

Jul 29 2021 14 mins

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 them into our strength. This is definitely not about trite slogans and being a rah rah cheerleader. Those are ok, but they won’t do the real