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The Neuroscience of Project
Management , Personal
Mastery & Resilience
Robin Levesque, MA, PMP, RI
… helping teams co-create a
sustainable future
How are we as human beings
similar to a project?
Triune Brain Theory
Stimulus Choice Response
Source: Dr. Paul Mohapel
Choice
• Reflect
• Visualize
• Discipline
• Judge
• Connect
Reflect
Keep a Journal
• Emotions
• Thinking patterns
• Actions and reactions
• Successes
• Goals
Visualize
Make Plans
• Tap into your creative imagination
• Visualize what success looks like
• Focus on past accomplishments
• Engage in thoughts that generate positive
emotions
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Make & Keep Promises to Yourself
• Focus on just 1 or 2 items
• Start small
• Challenge victim and helpless mentality
Judge
Listen to your inner voice
• Learn not to detach emotionally
• Don’t operationalize
• Don’t let negativity run your life
Connect
Connect with people you admire
• Empathize
• Acknowledge and validate
• Practice active listening skills
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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
Life goals
• Building on strengths
• Defining your life purpose
• Methods
• I help people …
Annual goals
• Health
• Family
• Career
• Learning
• Toys
Weekly goals
Green Red
X Blue
Importance
Urgency
Daily checklist
• The Checklist Manifesto
• The Progress Principle
• What gets measured gets done

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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