The online whiteboard of Kristofer Palmvik
Its been a few years now that people have been talking about "consumerisation", which is the idea that you can want and expect the same kind of computing experiences at work as you get at home. But, as everyone who works in a large company knows, you never get such an experience at work. Everything is a few versions behind, and even when it’s up to date, it all works so slowly. This, in part, is because of all the management, and security, and monitoring, and stuff that IT people feel they have to do to protect their assets.
I’m planning on inviting eleven people to an intensive five-day session in New York. This program is designed exclusively for people who: * Already have a job * Want to do more in that job * Can spend five days at my office with their boss’s blessing * Take initiative as a matter of course * Are willing to work really hard and read a lot too * Do work that makes the world a better place
They didn’t sell 300,000 iPads in one day, they sold them over a few decades.
If your team has a big problem to solve or you need big ideas from them, don’t lock them in a room to figure it out - let them go for a walk, wander around a museum together, listen to music. Play games, throw a ball around, read children’s books. Let a mind wander and you’ll be amazed at what it discovers.
In other words, he knew that the levels –key achievement milestones with clear rewards–are more motivating than just, "here you go... keep going." In the Parelli system, the physical reward is nothing more than a paper certificate and piece of colored string. But the mental and emotional reward is enough to keep people sticking with it and–paying more money for additional training materials (including, sometimes, live courses).