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Maintaining Excitement and Momentum Measurements and goals must be used in order to keep people motivated as they work within a vision. As a project manager you can’t simply say you are working toward an end goal. If you are trying to increase production, you cannot have your goal be to increase output by 100 percent and then work until you are there. It will be difficult to keep the staff motivated and enthusiastic about the task. Smaller interim goals need to be set. For example, celebrate the completion of a 25% increase, and again at 50%. You can even set smaller milestones at 10% intervals to increase the momentum needed to accomplish the goals and positively impact morale. Those intermediate goals will allow you to manage your progress and allow the staff to gain confidence knowing that they are moving in the right direction. As you are building and re-enforcing confidence and generating energy around the project with the milestone celebrations, you must be wary of plateaus. Along with those intermediate celebrations can come an air of complacency. Using the example above, once your team hits 50% they may become content having reached that milestone and they will lose their drive to complete the project. Your progress will level off. As a project manager you must continue to reinforce the need to move forward. Tell your staff that they have done good work, but that tougher challenges lay ahead. You should be sensitive to the points when you need to re-inject enthusiasm into the team. If you don’t, your project will stall. John F. Kennedy knew the perceptions and understood his environment. He stretched the organization, but stayed within reasonable, though aggressive, boundaries. The result came eight years later when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon. You too can move your organization forward. If you properly evaluate the perception and environment you can prepare the organization for your vision. Once you have that in place, you can introduce and execute the “moon shot” that will improve your organization.
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