How to help your team take Initiatives?

What do they want?

  • What Truly Interest them?
  • What do they tell you about?
  • How many topics are they?
  • How often do they speak to you about them?
  • Who do they share their ambitions with?
  • Why this person?
  • What do they have in common?
  • Are they interested by the same topic?
  • What’s this topic?
  • Do they talk to others about it?
  • Are these persons out of your team?
  • Could you integrate them?
  • As a permanent part of the team?
  • On a specific project?
  • Can they speak about it to you?
  • Are they hesitant to speak about it?
  • Are they reactive when they speak about it?
  • Do they anticipate rejection?
  • Do they speak without interruption?
  • How often do they pause?
  • Why do they pause?
  • Are they reluctant to speak about it?
  • Do they try to change of topic?
  • Is there a specific team members that they are afraid to speak in front of?
  • Is there any form of intolerance coming from this interaction?
  • How do they anticipate the interaction?
  • Can they teach others About it?
  • What are Skills are related to their topic of Interest?
  • How would these Skills help the team?
  • Do they interest other team members?
  • Who wants to learn them?
  • How engaged are they?
  • How devoted are they about learning it?
  • How is the other member dedicated to teaching it?
  • Are they passionate enough to teach it?
  • How does it relate to your Projects?
  • How is the Topic of Interest considered by each team member?
  • Is it considered Crucial?
  • Is it considered Useful?
  • Is it considered Useless?
  • What could we do with it?
  • Would it allow us to engage in new Projects?
  • Projects that were previously inaccessible?
  • What do we need to benefit from it?
  • How fast can we capitalize on this?

Achieving everyone’s Goals

  • 3 Skills
  • Which Skills does every member wants to acquire?
  • Which Skills can they acquire this Week?
  • Which Skills can they acquire this Month?
  • Which Skills can they acquire this Year?
  • Why do they want to develop these Skills?
  • Does it help them in the Projects?
  • Does it help them personally?
  • Habits
  • Share your daily Schedule with your team.
  • Is it clear for them?
  • Which points are unclear?
  • What questions do they ask about it?
  • Do they have a daily Schedule?
  • How do they elaborate it?
  • When do they revise it?
  • Do they know how to make 1?
  • Problem Solving
  • What issues are you facing?
  • How are these issues defined?
  • What solutions can be found?
  • What solutions can be implemented?
  • How should they be implemented?
  • Who can implement them the best?
  • Sharing your Goals
  • What are your Goals?
  • What are your Goals for this Month?
  • What are your Goals for this Year?
  • Do they interest your team members?
  • How do they display their interest?
  • Which Goal could correspond to which member?
  • How often do they ask you about it?
  • Do they ask you to teach them about it?

Be the most Helpful person

  • Proactive
  • How do you behave?
  • How do you manage Projects?
  • Is anyone else tempted to do the same?
  • How often do you plan?
  • Do you share your plans?
  • Which Ideas do you propose?
  • How does your team react to these Ideas?
  • Do they have counter Ideas?
  • Do they propose more Ideas?
  • Is their Input helpful?
  • Productive
  • Do you make Templates?
  • Do you make Templates for Characters?
  • Do you make Templates for Environments?
  • Do you make Templates for Settings?
  • Do you make Templates for Stories/Quests?
  • Do you distribute these Template to your team members?
  • What’s their input?
  • How would they ameliorate them?
  • Ask them to draw a new Template.
  • Are their modification pertinent?
  • What else could be done?
  • Do the Templates fulfill everyone’s needs & goals?
  • Permissive
  • Do you listen to others?
  • Can you listen to them?
  • How do you listen to them?
  • How much time do you give them to speak?
  • How long do you speak?
  • How focused are you?
  • How patient are you?
  • How resilient are you?
  • How do you show your interest for them?
  • How do you show your interest for their Projects?
  • Which questions do you ask them?
    • How can you help us change?
    • How do we evolve together?
    • What could we do grow faster?
    • What’s the best thing you can do today?
    • What’s the thing would procure you the most satisfaction?
How to listen to each other
  1. Proposition of the Idea
  2. 2′ of explanation of the Idea
  3. 5″ silence/pause
  4. 2′ of Questions on Idea
  5. Pass to the next person

Let them take the lead

  • Their Pet Project
  • Can they Make a list of 10 Items?
  • Can they group these Items into 3 groups?
  • How homogenous are these groups?
  • These will serve as a starter for their Project.
  • These are all the Topics they want to integrate in their Project.
  • How do they relate to each other?
  • How are they articulated?
  • Which 1s are the most important?
  • Why are they the most important?
  • How much time can they spend on this Project everyday?
  • A Project for the Team
  • Does every team member have a Project?
  • How can these Projects Overlap?
  • How do they Help each member?
  • How do they Motivate each member?
  • How do they develop the team’s skills?
  • How do they develop the team’s relationships?
  • How do they entice the team to take initiatives?
  • How do
  • Managing the Team
  • Who manages what?
  • Which role does every member want?
  • How do we Attributes Roles?
  • How do we Attributes Tasks?
  • How do we Define Objectives?
  • How do we Define the Schedule?
  • Who is in charge of the Story?
  • Who is in charge of the Graphics?
  • Who is in charge of the Sound?
  • Who is in charge of Programing?
  • Should we share these roles?
  • How?
  • Initiatives & Rest
  • What’s their main Goal on the Project?
  • What’s their goal in Story, Gameplay, Graphics, Audio?
  • What skills do they Need to learn?
  • In a year, in a month, in a week?
  • What do they need to rest?
  • How do they take a break?
  • What resources do they need?
  • The more everyone knows about each other, the more they can assist one another.

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