Check This If You Are Disappointed to Your Team

Why my team members don’t do things even if they said, “Ok. I’ll do it”?

When I organized an event for startup founders, this problem was raised twice. In my experience in forming a team from scratch, this always happens if we don’t care about “Ultimate Goal Check”. What is "Ultimate Goal Check”? Why it’s important?

What is “Ultimate Goal Check”?

When I form a team, I ask all the members one key question.

- “In your definition, what is the ultimate success of our project?”

From this question, we can learn the following thing.
- Definition of “right decision” for each member
- Priority of activities for each member

I named it as “Ultimate Goal Check”.

Example

To make it simple, let’s think about trip planning.

You talked with 2 friends about a trip to the beach. All the guys agreed to join it. When you asked one of them to find the ticket to go to the place, he didn’t book it soon. You said, “I can see the flight. Let’s book it now.” He replied, “It’s not good timing now”. When you asked the other guy to find a good hotel near the beach, he picked up a hostel. You said, “Hey, let’s reserve resort hotel.” He replied, “I prefer this”.

In order to avoid it, you may use “Ultimate Goal Check”.

Key Question:

• “What is the ultimate success of our trip?”

The Answers:

• You (Person A): “I want to spend cozy time in resort hotel without stress asap.”
• Person B: “I want to enjoy with minimum cost.”
• Person C: “I want to make friends there.”

You want to spend cozy time in resort hotel without stress. So that you won't focus to anything which doesn't result resort hotel and comfortable trip. And time is also your priority.

Person B wants to enjoy the place with minimum cost. He can commit to any work, as far as it's related to good cost performance. Time is not a matter.

Person C prioritize making friends in the destination. He can commits if he can meet new people.

Conclusion

A startup project is a voyage. If we don’t understand the definition of each member’s ultimate goal, you’ll have expectations which is not the priority for other guys. In other words, if each member knows what individual expects as an ultimate goal, we can guess if we can work together and how each person will commit.