?? The New Ways of Working Playbook

?? Playbook launch

This time last month, I launched my long-awaited and much-anticipated labour of love, the?New Ways of Working Playbook?https://bit.ly/NWOWplaybook.

The New Ways of Working Playbook will help you to explore the patterns found in progressive organisations.

I feel incredibly proud of this?free?resource. My goal was to create something that would help progressive people, teams and organisations to learn about?and crucially practice?New Ways of Working. And I’m thrilled to report that the feedback following the launch has been incredible ─ so if you haven't explored it yet, I think you’re going to like it! ??

?? What’s inside?

Inside, you’ll find some of the key?patterns found in progressive organisations. They are broken down into the?theory?behind the pattern and (the most important bit) how you can?practice?them with your team. The patterns include:

• Meetings?- meetings are probably the number one frustration felt by teams the world over, while healthy, participatory meetings are a clear pattern found in progressive organisations. The theory and practices in the New Ways of Working Playbook will help you to ensure that crap meetings are not a feature in your team ??
• Decision-making -?distributed decision-making is another tried and tested pattern found in progressive organisations. Recognising that it makes enormous sense to move control to where the information is, progressive organisations distribute the control that is traditionally hoarded by a few people at the top. The Playbook will guide you through making distributed decisions in your organisation ?
• Feedback?- regular feedback is one of the patterns that teams need most, a shortcut to improvement and better collaboration. The New Ways of Working Playbook gives you the theory, models and templates you need to give and receive feedback well ─ because we are all better off if we understand our impact on others ??
• Conflict?- whether it’s spoken or unspoken, conflict in the workplace is commonplace and something that really gets in the way of great collaboration. So it’s a great idea to agree a process and to plan for what happens when it inevitably arises. The Playbook will help you to think about a conflict process and upgrade your skills in order to handle conflict with care ??
• Roles?- in progressive organisations, rather than holding a single position with a fixed job description, people tend to hold a range of roles which evolve and change over time. The New Ways of Working Playbook explores this dynamic way of working and how it can benefit your organisation ??
• Agreements?- ‘How we do things around here’ contributes to your organisation’s culture and determines your team’s working ‘climate’. Without clear agreements, crucial patterns like the way you communicate in meetings, make decisions, give feedback, have disagreements and distribute roles are left to chance. The Playbook will help you to create and document healthy working agreements for your team and organisation ??

There are also resources on further crucial patterns:?psychological safety,?coaching,?mindset,?teamwork, and (the all-important)?experiments! ???Plus, you’ll find a bunch of inspiring books, tech, and case studies to help you explore the patterns found in progressive organisations.

?? Help

I would love for the?free?Playbook to be used and shared by curious people all over the world so that more and more organisations learn about and experiment with New Ways of Working.

In working towards this goal, I have a little favour to ask ─ if you find it helpful, please share it with your colleagues, with your teams/organisation on Slack/Teams, and with your networks on LinkedIn/Twitter. Here’s that link again:?https://bit.ly/NWOWplaybook. I appreciate each and every share.

?? Interested in a Playbook demo?

If you would like a free demo/lunch & learn for your team, let’s do it! Send me a message and propose a couple of one hour slots that work for your team and times and we’ll go from there ─?I’m offering five free demos, first come first served!

? What do you think of the Playbook?

I would love to hear your thoughts - do you feel it will be helpful to your team? How might it be even better? What’s missing? What do you appreciate? Any reactions at all are welcome, and I’ll be sure to respond to each one. ??