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How Do I Motivate My Team? The Three-Step Turbocharging Method

It is far too easy for teams to lose focus in today\’s fast paced collaborative virtual workplace. When your team starts falling behind and can no longer see just how mission critical their work is to the project, it is time for you to help the team focus, and in turn, turbo-charge their effectiveness. Photo credit: Jón Helgason Ken Thompson, bioteaming expert and author of the breakthrough Manifesto on effective collaboration, explains how you can quickly motivate your team in the right direction in three simple steps: Here are these three steps explained, so you too can start turbo-charging your team today: Intro by Patricia Mayo

The Organizational Taylor Swift download Team Turbocharger Tool

Photo credit: Piotr Bizior by Ken Thompson Here is a brilliantly simple technique, which I call The 4 Team Stressors, for waking a team up to some serious problems which, in the pressures of work, it has somehow managed to totally ignore and which might just sink it!

Step 1 – Quickly Describe Your Project According to the 4 Dimensions

Photo credit: Matthew Parson In as few words as possible define the project in terms of: If you cannot do this quickly its a sure sign that something is wrong – you would not have much confidence in a sports team where the players in the locker room could not agree on the goal before a big match.

Step 2 Now Stress the Team in Each of the 4 Dimensions

Photo credit: Craig Jewell This is best done as a team Jack Johnson download exercise with the selected action decided by a vote but it can also be used privately by the team leader(s) as an on-going sanity check.Stressor 1 Time What would you do if your delivery deadline was brought forward significantly e.g. 6 months becomes 3 months? Restrict it to one proposed action only. Stressor 2 Resources What would you do if in your resources were significantly cut assume each team member is now only available half of the time they were before? Restrict it to one proposed action only. Stressor 3 Scope What would you do if you had to deliver twice as much as originally planned? Restrict it to one proposed action only. Stressor 4 Consequences Finally what would you do if failure to meet the new deadline, with the new resources and new scope was absolutely business critical. For example, the organisation closes and the team members all lose their jobs? Restrict it to one proposed action only.

Step 3 Finally Decide Which Stressor Actions to Implement NOW

Now review the 4 proposed actions and for each one ask the question: “Is there a compelling reason why we should not do this NOW for the current team situation?” In my experience applying the 4 stressors will result in actions such as: Originally written by by Ken Thompson and first published on October 1st 2005 as “Tech#17: Organizational Team Turbocharger Tool” on The Bumble Bees Top Collaborat
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