Want a great way to spark innovation, motivate your people to learn new skills and improve your own performance?

Start a business fantasy camp for them.

How?

Bring together all the people (senior, junior, admin, etc.) from a particular project or department and offer them the opportunity to manage it.

They can work independently or with a partner.

Just like fantasy baseball they choose the team, lay out the schedule, modifying it as needed.

Your contribution is to make absolutely sure that they have all pertinent information including goals, requirements, budgets, deadlines, benchmarks, etc.

Arrange a schedule to share approaches and ideas and brainstorm solutions to the various challenges, problems and situations that each approach generates.

Use the results to fine-tune the real project.

Always credit the solutions and improvements correctly both up (your boss) and down (co-workers) the line.

This is not something to do on a past project or a pretend department; it must be either current or upcoming, i.e., real and really matter.

Not only will the results amaze you, but also some of the very unexpected sources from which they come.

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