The High Voltage Approach
At High Voltage we pair archetypes from games that gamers already understand and identify with.
For example, when your kid is raging at their game because "no-one will play healer!", what we see is a lack of flexibility. The team is there to win, but everyone only wants to play the role they're good at. Without the flexibility to learn and use different skills, the team loses out - and loses the game
Motivation & Understanding
This idea is the same when thinking about more 'real world', community based and work related skills. We need to gain flexibility in our thinking to develop the skills needed to play different 'roles' in our own lives and to support the people we care about. We can personify these as the Explorer, Healer, Defender and Worker.
"Through the characters we love, our motivations become clear. What you admire in them reveals the power already in you."
Just like in the game, as we develop the flexibility to move between different roles, we can shift from being an inflexible team member into the adaptive and flexible MVP who can collaborate and win with anyone.
This combines two key motivational dimensions: approach vs. avoidance and internal vs. external motivation.
By crossing these dimensions, we identify four goal-striving reasons:
- Pleasure. Pursuing goals for enjoyment and curiosity (approach/internal). Explorer / Researcher.
- Altruism. Striving to help others or make a positive impact (approach/external). Helper / Healer.
- Self-Esteem. Pursuing goals to avoid losing self-worth (avoidance/internal). Tank / Trickster.
- Necessity. Acting out of pressure or obligation (avoidance/external). Worker / Hunter.
Bringing It All Together.
By helping the participants navigate the space of motivation from a place that they already feel competent, they are able to identify areas they would like to grow through our services. This bridges their ideas into new skills, rather than adding pressure to a new environment or idea they haven't thought about. We are simply adding a skill into the process of their project.
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