Sunday, March 29, 2009

Is your team bored?

The human mind has an amazing quality. It gets saturated faster that you can spell s-a-t-u-r-a-t-e-d. This, of course, is why humans progress. The search for new and exciting drives the invention machine.

However, as a Project Manager you are sick and tired of this constant need by your team members for something new. Just when you think your team has crossed that learning barrier you find your team members uneasy and bored. They wish to work on a new project to learn something new. This improves their marketability, or so they think. You on the other hand, try and explain them the advantages of core competency and focus and how the learning curve works.

How do you balance the two forces?

How do you keep the team motivated and accrue benefits of the learning curve?

What do you do?
What do you do?

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