This International Working Out Loud week we are celebrating the practice of working out loud with the global #WOL community. The theme of this week is “Sharing the Benefits of Working Out Loud”. Today we are focused on “The Benefits of Innovation”. Innovation Innovation is where Working Out Loud brings the organisation and the community together to create a new future. Many organisations talk about innovation but few have it as an every day collaborative activity for all employees. Working Out Loud can help create that. Innovation brings together all the benefits that we have explored across the previous four … Continue reading #WOLWeek Day 5: The Benefits of Working Out Loud – The Benefit of Innovation

This International Working Out Loud week we are celebrating the practice of working out loud with the global #WOL community. The theme of this week is “Sharing the Benefits of Working Out Loud”. Today we are focused on “The Benefits of Solving – Problem Solving”. Solving – Problem Solving Everyone has problems. Nothing about work is routine or predictable any more in our rapidly changing complex world. The challenge for everyone is how to solve problems as quickly and as painlessly as possible. Working out loud brings the whole community around your work in to assist you to solve problems … Continue reading #WOLWeek Day 4: The Benefits of Working Out Loud – The Benefits of Solving Problems

This International Working Out Loud week we are celebrating the practice of working out loud with the global #WOL community. The theme of this week is “Sharing the Benefits of Working Out Loud”. Today we are focused on “The Benefits of Solving – Learning”. Solving – Learning One of the biggest barriers to success at work is a lack of capability. When you lack the capability or the confidence for a task, work can be a lonely and daunting place. Working Out Loud can help solve this challenge. Many of our work problems and barriers can be address when someone … Continue reading #WOLWeek Day 3: Sharing the Benefits of Solving – Learning

This International Working Out Loud week we are celebrating the practice of working out loud with the global #WOL community. The theme of this week is “Sharing the Benefits of Working Out Loud”. Yesterday, it was exciting to see the global community respond to #WOLWeek and renew connections around the world. Today we are focused on “The Benefits of Sharing”. Sharing Sharing is at the heart of the practice of working out loud. Mostly we focus on the sharing of information, but the process of sharing work still in progress shares a great deal more. Yesterday, we spoke of how … Continue reading #WOLWeek Day 2: Sharing the Benefits of Working Out Loud: The Benefits of Sharing

Welcome to WOLWeek Welcome to International Working Out Loud Week 18-24 November 2019.  WOLWeek is a celebration of the practice of working out loud (& related practices) and a chance for the global community to advocate for increased openness of work.  This is the seventh year of WOLWeek and it continues to grow along with the global WOL community. For those new to WOLWeek, working out loud is the practice of sharing work in progress with a relevant community to foster learning and collaboration. The Benefits of Connection This International Working Out Loud Week we will be exploring the theme … Continue reading #WOLWEEK Day 1: 18 Nov – Sharing the Benefits of #WOL – The Benefits of Connection

Next week from 18-24 November will be International Working Out Loud Week.  This WOLWeek the theme will be ‘Sharing the Benefits of Working Out Loud.’  WOLWeek is all about advocacy of the practice of working out loud by surfacing and sharing the stories of the global Working Out Loud communities.  WOLWeek is a celebration of any forms of sharing work in practice openly with a relevant community, whatever that practice may be called. We embrace open work, narrating work, share your work, and many other names, practices and schemes of bringing work in progress out in the open so that … Continue reading #WOLWeek 18-24 November 201: Sharing the Benefits of Working Out Loud

International Working Out Loud Week returns from 18-24 November 2019. The theme of this week is ‘Share the benefits of working out Loud’. WOLWeek is unashamedly a week of advocacy with an international community. We want to share the benefits to encourage others to practice WOL. We also want to share the benefits so that more people experience how WOL can help them to connect to others, learn and achieve their goals. Diverse Benefits This theme was inspired by the ongoing work global WOL community and in particular two tweets today. They reminded me that more people need to experience … Continue reading Share the Benefits of Working Out Loud – 18-24 November 2019