Human Side of Project Leadership

CHAPTER 12

Conclusions

Our case data provide support for the idea that a project’s spirit is a manifestation of the project’s goal in terms of team member’s emotions, attitudes, and expected behaviors—termed the expression—components of project spirit. The project manager can regulate principal behaviors of participants in project settings by shaping spirit expressions (see Table 11-2). We provide the following set of recommended spirit-building block activities for project leaders concerned with shaping and managing the components of project spirit as a part of their planning activities.

1. Excitement/passion, enthusiasm and joy are emotional expression- components of project spirit that will be influenced by infusing the project’s own vision. ...