Getting your team to use Basecamp
Making sure your team and business are on the same page, it’s always best to make sure you have a date set in stone for adoption of a new workflow.
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Summary
Getting people to adopt a new tool is always a pain. The one thing that works is setting a hard cutoff date: if it’s not in Basecamp, it didn’t happen. That gets 90 to 95 percent adoption. For Basecamp especially, because everything lives in there, this keeps data from being all over the place.
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Every company has specific tools that they use in the department. So HR has their own tool, finance has a specific tool, design department use a set of tools that they do their work in. So when a person joins that company, they have to abide by the rules of that department of the way that they work.
The issue comes when the company or small business, whatever it is, has issues getting the, getting adoption for a new tool. Whether they’re using a tool in the past or whether it’s brand new to their business, sorry, I had something in the forest. They always have issues with getting adoption, getting people to actually use it.
Now I’ve worked with many businesses with Basecamp as well as other tools and the way they see, The one thing that works, the way they’ve seen the adoption actually works, is having a cutoff date. Having a date in the calendar for everybody saying after this date, whatever you do, if it’s not within that tool, within base camp, we don’t see it. If it’s not in base camp, we don’t know it’s ever happened.
And that generally works, when I say generally, 90, 95% of the time works. Specifically with Basecamp, because Basecamp being an all-around tool, it does everything in there, all the communication, all the files, all the tasks, absolutely everything’s within Basecamp. So if it’s not in Basecamp, the company doesn’t know what’s going on, all the other departments, every department, they just don’t know what’s going on.
So having that cutoff date and making that set in concrete is the best way you can be assured that everyone will adopt that tool. Now, this thing will work with every project management tool or every tool. But because I work with Basecamp and I work mainly with Basecamp when I’m consulting, I find that that is like the best way to get, get everyone on board without having the data all over the place.
Hopefully that helps. If you need any help with it, let me know. As always, keep it simple. I see you next time. Ciao.