The document discusses how project management and personal development are similar, referencing the triune brain theory of stimulus-choice-response. It provides tips for choosing how to reflect, visualize, and discipline oneself, including keeping a journal, making plans by visualizing success, and making and keeping promises. Advice is given on listening to one's inner voice, connecting with admired people, and using Robin's hedgehog principle to define life goals based on strengths and purpose. The importance of setting annual, weekly, and daily goals is also covered.
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Personal Time Management for UC 2013 Oct 22
1. The Neuroscience of Project
Management , Personal
Mastery & Resilience
Robin Levesque, MA, PMP, RI
… helping teams co-create a
sustainable future
2. How are we as human beings
similar to a project?
9. Make Plans
• Tap into your creative imagination
• Visualize what success looks like
• Focus on past accomplishments
• Engage in thoughts that generate positive
emotions
11. Make & Keep Promises to Yourself
• Focus on just 1 or 2 items
• Start small
• Challenge victim and helpless mentality
15. Connect with people you admire
• Empathize
• Acknowledge and validate
• Practice active listening skills
17. Robin’s Hedgehog Principle
Deep
Best
What you are
deeply
interested in
What we can be
the best for the
world at
How we serve
the needs of
our resource
engine
Planet
ProfitPeople
Adapted from Jim Collins’ Good to Great
18. Life goals
• Building on strengths
• Defining your life purpose
• Methods
• I help people …
21. Daily checklist
• The Checklist Manifesto
• The Progress Principle
• What gets measured gets done
Editor's Notes
#2: Leadership in Sustainable Development: The Ultimate Leadership Challenge
Personal motivation: making the undesirable desirable
Personal ability: surpass your limits
Social motivation: harness peer pressure
Social ability: find strength in numbers
Structural motivation: design rewards and demand accountability
Structural ability: change the environment
#17: Recommendations:
Discover—describe a compelling need for change and commit to organizational learning
Reach—inspire a shared vision and build a culture of sustainable development in Medicine Hat
Engage and Elaborate—Engage key stakeholders in co-creating a strategy to implement sustainable development in Medicine Hat
Act—execute the strategy and put it into action in a systems thinking perspective
Monitor and Motivate—keep score and retell the story
#18: Social ability: find strength in numbers
Partnerships
Social capital as part of the triple bottom line
Connectedness
Systems thinking