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Discussion on: TOP Motivation killers to avoid 💀

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Keff

The thing that de-motivates me the most is the lack of communication within the team and the feeling that you are the only one working on a project at any given time.

I had a bad experience a couple of weeks back with this, but talking with the team about the issue and giving some solutions made them realize that part could be improved and how to do so. Now we have more meetings, and we communicate more than ever.

Not having a clear path and plans about the project kills motivation quite a bit, this is something I'm trying to improve at our company.

Worth pointing out that working on an excessive amount of projects can de-motivate as well, currently I'm working on about 4 projects, but a couple of months back it was up to 10, ranging from an Angular Dashboard to a Flutter app, passing through a Symphony API. This was quite tough, changing context so many times was a killer.

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Alexandru-Dan Pop

You are doing awesome work raising awerness on communication issues. I have also experienced this, maybe now more since everyone is WFH.

One thing that de-motivates me is when people don't involve you in project communication and decisions are made in an non transparent way.

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Keff

One thing that de-motivates me is when people don't involve you in project communication, and decisions are made in a non-transparent way.

Totaly, that was part of the issue I had. If they don't involve you in the project, you can end up feeling like you are just a tool, and that can have harmful effects from my experience.