#WOLWeek Day 5: Ask For Help

Working Out Loud Week is from 5-11 June 2017.  Working Out Loud Week is a chance for a global community of practitioners to find new freedom to work together to practice sharing work in progress with relevant communities for learning and collaboration. The theme of this WOLWeek is ‘Contribute and Create Value’ Day 5: Ask For Help We all need help in our work.  The scale, pace, and complexity of our work are greater than ever.  We need help to keep being effective – to know what we need to know, to learn the skills we need and to get … Continue reading #WOLWeek Day 5: Ask For Help

#WOLWeek Day 4: Share

Working Out Loud Week is from 5-11 June 2017.  Working Out Loud Week is a chance for a global community of practitioners to find new freedom to work together to practice sharing work in progress with relevant communities for learning and collaboration. The theme of this WOLWeek is ‘Contribute and Create Value’ Day 4: Share In a digital workplace, much of the value that an employee can contribute and will receive depends on sharing: openness, transparency, better use of data, better use of knowledge, learning from peers, effective collaboration, greater autonomy, agile work practices and much more.  Working out loud … Continue reading #WOLWeek Day 4: Share

#WOLWeek Day 3: Contribute

Working Out Loud Week is from 5-11 June 2017.  Working Out Loud Week is a chance for a global community of practitioners to find new freedom to work together to practice sharing work in progress with relevant communities for learning and collaboration. The theme of this WOLWeek is ‘Contribute and Create Value’ Day 3: Contribute When we think of working out loud, our thoughts often go first to sharing. We begin with how our work can be shared with others. However, in the design of these five days of WOLWeek, we have put contribution before sharing.  The generosity of contribution … Continue reading #WOLWeek Day 3: Contribute

#WOLWeek Day 2: Connect

From 5-11 June 2017, it is Working Out Loud Week, a celebration of the practice of sharing work in progress in a relevant community. This WOLWeek the theme is Contribute and Create value. Day 2: Connect Working out loud involves sharing your work with a relevant community. It is all about creating new connections. Making your work more effective can be as simple as adding one more person to the conversation around your work. New people bring new perspectives, new skills and experiences and new energy to your work. New people can contribute and add value to your work in … Continue reading #WOLWeek Day 2: Connect

#WOLWEEK Day 1: Purpose

Working Out Loud Week is a chance to step into a degree of freedom, a chance to enable change in the way you and your community works.  From 5-11 June 2017, a global community of working out loud practitioners will come together to connect, to share and to learn.  This year’s theme is ‘Contribute and Create Value‘, reflecting that generous contribution is the heart of working out loud. Purpose We start Working Out Loud week with a reflection on the purpose of work because we want to ensure working out loud adds value for you and your community.  Working out … Continue reading #WOLWEEK Day 1: Purpose

WOLWeek 5-11 June 2017 – One Degree of Freedom to Change

Next week is International Working Out Loud Week (5-11 June). For the week, a global community of working out loud practitioners, advocates and organizations will share their work, their lessons, and their stories.  This WOLWeek the theme is “Contribute and Create Value”. We created Working Out Loud week to draw attention to working out loud. Importantly, we also wanted to authorize people to share their interest in or passion for working out loud. In corporate life and in social situations, we can often worry whether we have the authority or the permission to share. Our actions are tightly constrained. Acceptable behaviour … Continue reading WOLWeek 5-11 June 2017 – One Degree of Freedom to Change

Contribute and Create Value: WOLWeek 5-11 June 2017

The theme of this WOLWeek is “Contribute and Create Value”. Contribution is the beating heart of Working Out Loud.  Sharing, learning, recognition and other forms of support in relationships help power the value creation of Working Out Loud.  Contribution helps remind us that working out loud is always based in the relationships and communities around us. We can’t work out loud alone or simply for ourselves. We work out loud with others. The purpose of all our work is shared value creation to advance our purpose.  For many people financial value is the first kind that comes to mind.  However, … Continue reading Contribute and Create Value: WOLWeek 5-11 June 2017

VR Working Out Loud Week 2017: 26 February- 4 March

It’s back! Following the success of the inaugural VR Working Out Loud Week last year, it will run again on 26 February – 4 March 2017. Participation is open to anyone who is working with or experimenting with Virtual Reality, whether that be at home, at school or at work. Use the hashtag #VRwolweek on Twitter to share your successes, failures, questions, answers, work-arounds, or anything else that your fellow pioneers will find useful. Whether you are playing with apps or developing high-end immersive experiences, we want to hear about it!` Continue reading VR Working Out Loud Week 2017: 26 February- 4 March