Ingredient 12. Make It an Adventure
An excerpt from 101 Design Ingredients to Solve Big Tech Problems by Eewei Chen
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2 min readAug 30, 2023
Inspire your team to go all the way.
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
— Maya Angelou, author and poet
The Problem
If it’s not interesting, teams won’t put in everything required to see it succeed.
The Solution
Get your team members to identify with the cause so they willingly invest their time and effort.
- Improve people. Use projects to help employees achieve personal goals and beliefs. A classic Harvard study entitled “Breakthrough in On-the-Job Training” proves how training employees to become more capable while delivering a project reduces time to market, increases job satisfaction, and cuts training costs significantly.
- Show the path to success. Outline each milestone, showing what team members need to do to get there. Celebrate each achievement and remind them of what still lies ahead and how much closer they are. Give them a clear road map to guide them closer to the end, one step at a time.
- Walk the talk. Show them how much time or money you are willing to put in personally to make the project a success. I believe in ideas, so I am happy to put time and money into projects I am passionate about. If you do this, people will naturally want to get more involved.
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