Show your organisation some love with New Ways of Working ❤️

To do this we'll borrow from the best sources. These include agile, self-management, organisational psychology, and the most progressive companies on the planet.

What we’ll work on

On this course, you’ll be practising and learning all the way. You'll get better at listening, teamwork, and self-organising. There will be plenty of required pre-work ahead of each online session, during which we’ll reflect on the content as a group. Throughout the course, you will have the chance to ask questions and form a community on Slack. You'll become familiar with Notion, where course content is shared, and with Focusmate which will help you to get through the content. You'll also experience Mural and Liberating Structures.

Crucially, each week you will design an experiment to test in your own team 🧪

You'll form accountability partnerships with fellow course participants who will help you, hold you accountable to your experiment, and be depending on you to do the same for them. Throughout, you’ll be experiencing some of the best collaboration tools and practises out there.

• Week 1: Challenges - identity ****what's getting in the way of great work.
• Week 2: Teamwork - we’ll uncover the research into what makes a great team.
• Week 3: Mindset & Power - this work requires mindset shifts and clarity around power.
• Week 4: Feedback - we’ll learn how to give and get more feedback.
• Week 5: Decision-making - we explore alternatives to top-down & consensus.

Throughout the course, you will learn meeting structures that you can pop in your pocket, take back to work and use immediately.

What to expect

Expect practical, interactive and participatory. This isn’t easy work and it isn't an easy workload. Each week the format looks like this:

• Course materials: Before each live session on Wednesday you’ll use Focusmate to work through the course materials (articles, podcasts, talks and tools) shared via Notion. 2-3 hours.
• Live session: We’ll discuss and reflect on what stood out from your pre-work, dive deeper into the topic, and figure out how you’ll apply it at work. 2 hours.
• Experiment: At the end of each session you’ll have designed an experiment to try out at work that week. This takes place in your workday so timing is your call.
• Accountability partnership: Having committed to an experiment you’ll catch up with a course peer to help each other out and hold each other to account. 1 hour.
• Retrospection: Each week you’ll be invited to write a quick reflection. 5-10 mins.