{"id":215,"date":"2003-07-25T15:29:21","date_gmt":"2003-07-25T15:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eekim.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/creating-motivation-in-asynchronous-environments\/"},"modified":"2003-07-25T15:29:21","modified_gmt":"2003-07-25T15:29:21","slug":"creating-motivation-in-asynchronous-environments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/2003\/07\/creating-motivation-in-asynchronous-environments\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Motivation in Asynchronous Environments"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>I’m currently reading Leaping the Abyss: Putting Group Genius to Work<\/i>, by Gayle Pergamit and Chris Peterson (who’s on our Advisory Board<\/a>). The book is about the MGTaylor<\/a> DesignShop<\/a> process.    (2K)<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>Quick aside on MGTaylor: Founded by Matt and Gail Taylor, these folks have been around for almost 25 years, and are pioneers in facilitating what they call Group Genius<\/a>. I had a chance to work with Gail and Matt at the recent PlaNetwork Conference<\/a>, and came away in awe of their process.    (2L)<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>The MGTaylor process focuses on synchronous collaboration: same time, same place gatherings. Pergamit and Peterson write the following about the Design Shop<\/a> experience:    (2M)<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/a>Without having attended the event — and discovered for ourselves both the costs imposed by some of our traditional procedures and the benefits that are possible within 72 hours — we would have remained curious, but not moved to action. (9)    (2N)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>I had a similar experience at my first Dialogue Mapping<\/a> workshop, taught by Jeff Conklin<\/a> in July 2001. Prior to that workshop, I had read several of Jeff’s papers, and had come away with many interesting impressions of the IBIS grammar and the Dialogue Mapping<\/a> methodology. However, those impressions were not motivation enough for me to try the process myself. One two-day workshop<\/a> single-handedly created that motivation.    (2O)<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>I recently told this anecdote<\/a> on our Collaboration Collaboratory mailing list, and suggested that synchronous collaboration was far superior at generating motivation than asynchronous collaboration.    (2P)<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>Is this true, and why? Are there patterns of asynchronous collaboration that excel at motivation?    (2Q)<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>I think it’s true. It’s simply a matter of show versus tell. When a group is sitting in the same room together, you can show whatever it is you want to show. When a group is dispersed, you can only tell them about whatever it is you want to show, and hope that they go and play.    (2R)<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>That said, I’m sure there are patterns of asynchronous collaboration for creating motivation; I just can’t think of many offhand. An obvious one is Tell A Friend — personal recommendations from people you trust. If my sisters recommend a book, I’m liable to read it. If my friends Justin and Cindy<\/a> recommend a restaurant, I’m liable to try it.    (2S)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m currently reading Leaping the Abyss: Putting Group Genius to Work, by Gayle Pergamit and Chris Peterson (who’s on our Advisory Board). The book is about the MGTaylor DesignShop process.    (2K) Quick aside on MGTaylor: Founded by Matt and Gail Taylor, these folks have been around for almost 25 years, and are pioneers in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[490,496,708,1797],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4cTFX-3t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}