Traditional decision-making 🧍‍♂️ In most organisations, centralised authority (such as the senior leadership team) holds much of the power. A few people at the top make most decisions, plus some lucky middle managers, while everyone else does as they are told. Employees need approval before they can do stuff that they haven’t been…

User Manual for Teams 👩🏾‍🤝‍👩🏼🧑🏾‍🤝‍🧑🏻 If you don’t have one already, then your team would really benefit from a user manual. Why? Because life at work is a lot easier when our colleagues know how we work best & when we know how our colleagues work best. …

The ‘Lean Coffee’ meeting structure ☕ — Lean Coffee is a simple and wonderful meeting structure that’s perfectly suited to teams exploring new ways of working. People gather, suggest agenda items in real time, vote on the suggested topics, and discussion begins. Crucially here, the group — not just the boss — suggest and select the discussion…

Feedback — Regular feedback is one of the tools that teams need most. It’s a shortcut to improvement and better collaboration. Done well, feedback will help your colleagues, your team and your organisation. …

In the second edition of Do try this at work I’m excited to share with you the shiny new New Ways of Working Canvas. The New Ways of Working Canvas The canvas is designed to help you to get clear about some of the themes that are critical to progressive organising. Think purpose; roles and responsibilities…

Introducing the ‘Do try this at work’ series — A lot of people ask me where to start with their #newwaysofworking journey. The answer is often frustrating to hear — there is no ‘one right way’ — sorry! It is something that teams need to figure out for themselves and build on through constant experimentation, doing more of what…