Can you reduce one or more of the six progress hurdles to enable Seekers to make more progress?
What we’re thinking
One of the four innovation outcomes is a proposition that reduces one or more of the six progress hurdles.
Is your innovation reducing the lack of capabilities or is more adoptable with less resistance? Are you aligning with you Seeker’s position on the relieving to enabling continuum? Or have you innovated the business model to reduce the inequitable exchange fear of unfairness?.
» 4: Accelerating potential for well-being recognition frequency
An outcome of innovation is accelerating the potential for well-being recognition frequency
The fourth, and final, innovation outcome is to accelerate a Seeker’s recognition of emerged well-being.
The well-being increase that progressively emerges as progress made is meaningless to a Seeker until they recognise it. You can think of this as similar to how accountants recognise revenue (although not backed by international accounting standards).
What do I mean? Well, as a simplified example, say your progress sought is getting to a place 100km away. Each km you travel could represent a unit of emerged well-being, such that when you are at 90km, 90 units of well-being has emerged. Let’s say you can only get that 90km in the first day, how much is that meaningful to you? It depends. If you can travel the final 10km tomorrow, then you can recognise 90 units of well-being. If you had to be at your destination on day 1, then getting 90km is as useful to you as having reached 5km, 10km, or not even setting off: you’d recognise no increase in well-being.
Until a Seeker feels comfortable recognising emerged well-being, they may lose energy, doubt the journey, and abandon the attempt entirely or switch to another proposition.
If we can offer the Seeker the ability to recognise emerged well-being quicker, that can be beneficial to them.
| progress lever | discussion |
|---|---|
| accelerating a Seeker’s well-being recognition frequency | how can you help a Seeker recognise that current emerged well-being is meaningful to them? ➠ shifting progress-making activities towards Agile approaches is one way; others are introducing steps to follow up on progress. |
You can see this in how leading SaaS providers design onboarding. Rather than expecting customers to master the entire platform before recognising well-being increases, they deliberately create early “aha moments.” For example, project management software firms like Asana or Monday.com ensure new users experience success within minutes – by setting up their first task, inviting a colleague, or automating a simple workflow. Each early win is a recognition of a well-being increase, anchoring the Seeker’s belief that the platform will continue to support their larger progress sought.
Similarly, Industrial equipment manufacturers now embed sensors and digital dashboards to provide real-time feedback on performance improvements or cost savings. Instead of waiting for a quarterly report to see ROI, customers can see reduced downtime or energy usage immediately. In consulting, firms that share quick wins – for instance, highlighting early operational savings in a transformation project – give clients confidence that the larger initiative will deliver.
These “early recognition” and “aha” moments strengthens trust, reduces abandonment, and increases appetite for additional collaboration.
Let’s progress together through discussion…