When team members are repeatedly given work that doesn’t align to their strengths or interests, motivation drops and loafing starts.

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#pmot #socialloafing #projectmanagement

When a team isn’t pulling in the same direction, it can lead to demotivation across the board.

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#pmot #socialloafing #projectmanagement

There's a specific situation that happens sometimes in #teaching:
Teams of 3-6 students working for weeks on a project. There's a document I created that breaks down the tasks for the project by difficulty and assigns each task to a team member. Later, I grade the project and those tasks are the criteria, weighted by the difficulty rating. The teams have been looking at this for quite a while, and in some cases have modified it to fit their specific working style (I usually encourage this).

Then, during finals week or right before, two things happen:

  • One or two team members (a minority) begin to tell me things aren't going well, they're doing too much work, the others are flaking out, conveniently not being there, doing shitty work, etc. Generally, this minority has the receipts: they show me the tasks they're working on and it's clear they have spent significant time on them.

  • When the minority above is not present (e.g. not in the office, or maybe just across a big room presenting the team project to others) the rest of the team comes to me and casually-yet-sincerely tells me "the entire team" agrees that everyone did all tasks equally and they worked together at every step, so they would prefer to not use that complicated document assigning tasks, and "the entire team" wants to share all grades for all tasks equally.

  • Yeah.

    #shenanigans #bullshit #SocialLoafing #professor

    Over complexity can lead to other phenomena such as analysis paralysis and perfectionism.

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    #pmot #socialloafing #projectmanagement

    While we all work to get paid, most people need satisfaction and purpose in their roles too.

    Prevent social loafing 👉 https://lttr.ai/AfvCp

    #pmot #socialloafing #projectmanagement

    Team members can put in less effort when on a team, versus when they are asked to work on their own.

    Find out how to prevent that 👉 https://lttr.ai/Afu03

    #pmot #socialloafing #projectmanagement

    Teams that have a strong culture and connection are proven to be more effective, engaged, and motivated.

    Build motivation, strengthen the team 👉 https://lttr.ai/Afu01

    #pmot #socialloafing #projectmanagement

    The biggest reason employees begin to loaf, is because they don’t feel connected to the team or the objective.

    Connect your team 👉 https://lttr.ai/Afu0X

    #pmot #socialloafing #projectmanagement

    What is social loafing? How to spot (and prevent) it

    Read the full article 👉 https://lttr.ai/AfwSd

    #pmot #socialloafing #projectmanagement

    92 – Wo ist mein Wasser?
    Hallo und herzlich willkommen zur 92ten Folge von eurem Lieblingspodcast Deep & Doof.

    Der Sommer ist heiß und viel trinken ist wichtig. Was aber, wenn nicht mehr genügend Wasser verfügbar ist? Was macht man dann? Gibt es bereits Gegend, in denen das so ist? Was
    https://www.deepunddoof.de/index.php/2024/06/30/92-wo-ist-mein-wasser/
    #Episode #FranzisFrage #Gesellschaft #Klimawandel #Lebensgrundlage #Mensch #Politik #SocialLoafing #Wasser #Wassermangel #Zukunft

    92 – Wo ist mein Wasser?

    Hallo und herzlich willkommen zur 92ten Folge von eurem Lieblingspodcast Deep & Doof. Der Sommer ist heiß und viel trinken ist wichtig. Was aber, wenn nicht mehr genügend Wasser verfügbar ist? …

    Deep & Doof