A Happy, Happy Conference – PMI NL Summit 2014
I have just returned from a fabulous conference: the PMI Netherlands Summit 2014 in beautiful Zeist, NL. It was an honor and great pleasure to open the conference with my own keynote on „Leadership, Happiness and Project Success„. In my presentation I explained why and…
Select for success – with happiness
In April I will be a speaker at this year’s Project Zone Congress in Frankfurt, Germany. Listen to what I shared in an interview with Stamford Global. The whole interview is available at http://projectzonecongress.com/news-articles/select-success-interview-thomas-juli Select for success – interview with Thomas Juli Submitted by Helina.Pukk…
‘Chairlift to Innovation’ concludes on a happy note
Today was Day 3 of the workshop “Chairlift to Innovation”. We took easy today and reviewed and refined the results of Day 1 and Day 2. Bottom line of the workshop: We’ll do it again! The concept of the workshop was completely new to us. …
Top tips for project mangers who want to step up and become great leaders
Susanne Madsen, author of The Project Management Coaching Workbook: 6 steps to unleashing your potential, has recently asked me what my top tips are for project mangers who want to step up and become authentic and impactful leaders who add real value, build great teams and…
Your Path to Happy Leadership and Project Success
Today, 18 September 2013, I will be giving a free webinar for the PMI Information Systems Community of Practice entitled “Leadership, Happiness and Project Success”. Follow this LINK to learn more about dial-in information 2 Ingredients for project success In this webinar I am exploring…
What I have learned about leadership as a ski-instructor
It is the heat of the summer and I am thinking of skiing?! Well, yes, why not. I am thinking of skiing lots of time, regardless of the season. Why? Because it is one of my dearest passions. Hence, there is no such thing as…
Passion = More than just an ingredient to leadership and happiness
In an article entitled „The Secret to Living a Passionate Life“ in the book Pearls of Wisdom explain that you don’t have to be a celebrity to live a happy, joyful, fullfilling and successful life. Everyone can. The key is that you have to know…
How to Gain the Leadership Experience Employers Want
[Guest blog by Michael Keathley] According to The Job Outlook for the College Class of 2013 by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), nearly all of the top ten bachelor degrees for hiring in the current job market involve leadership ability. These include…
Leadership doesn’t need tools but principles
Developing my new workshop „Leadership, Happiness and Project Success“ I came across the question whether or not there can be tools for developing leadership. After all, the second part of the preliminary workshop agenda read „Create a strategy with the best tools possible“. It is…
Teaching leadership? Yes, you can. – No, you can’t
A very simple question: can you teach leadership? Yes, of course. Just have a look at the thousands of books about leadership (haha, including my own :-)). This, by itself has to be a good indicator that leadership can be taught. Then, there are so…