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Embracing Humanness as the Heart of a Supportive Culture

By hith-admin February 17, 2025 No Comments 10 Min Read

Welcome back, Humanness Heroes. In our last post, we explored how embracing humanness can build resilience and adaptability in project teams. Today, we delve deeper into how humanness can shape the culture of a project delivery team, department, and, ultimately, an entire organization. A supportive culture cannot thrive without humanness—it’s the very lifeblood of any culture, filled with human ideals and emotions. Yet, often, humanness is pushed away when it…

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Fostering Innovation and Creativity through Humanness: Insights from the PERMA Model – PART 1

Hello, my Humanness Heroes, and welcome back to our ongoing series on the transformative power of humanness in project delivery. In our last post, “Bekah’s Story,” we delved into the personal and professional fallout when workplaces neglect the human aspects of their teams. Through Bekah’s experience, we saw how overlooking individual contributions and personal well-being can lead to a loss of talent and a broader organizational failure to nurture potential….

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Fostering Innovation and Creativity through Humanness: Insights from the PERMA Model – PART 2

Welcome back, Humanness Heroes! In our last exploration of the transformative power of the PERMA model, we delved deep into the realms of Positive Emotions and Engagement. We discovered how these elements can significantly enhance your creativity and energize your contributions within your project teams. Today, we continue this journey by turning our focus to the remaining facets of the PERMA model: Relationships, Meaning, and Achievement, each pivotal in fostering…

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Harnessing Humanness to Boost Emotional Intelligence in Projects

Welcome back, Humanness Heroes! I’m delighted to have you on this journey as we delve into the core of project and program delivery. It’s not just about the technicalities, but the people who make it all happen. Last time, we started to uncover the true meaning of ‘humanness’ in our field. We discussed those distinctively human qualities—empathy, intuition, creativity, and emotional depth—that are often overlooked but are actually the driving…

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Humanness In the Face of Death

Premeditating what we think we’d love to do without actually being in the thick of it is the beginning of the problem, and having too much ego to scrap it and start over is the end. When we try to anticipate what we’d love, we’re running on a projection, an assumption. Almost everybody believes they have the talent to succeed at the thing they really love. Needless to say, not everybody is correct.

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