<aside> 💡 In progressive organisations, rather than holding a single position with a fixed job description, people tend to hold a range of roles which change and evolve over time. This is a far more dynamic way of working, and reflects the fast-changing reality of today’s markets, workplaces and customers.
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The advantages to defining job roles instead of job positions | Mark Eddleston & Nathan Evans (49 mins)
The world is dynamic, moving fast, and difficult to predict. Given such volatile conditions, consider building your organisation out of granular, dynamic building blocks (roles) rather than coarse-grained, rigid units (positions). This podcast explores one of the patterns found in progressive organisations with Nathan Evans, co-founder of Peerdom software.
Mapping roles in dynamic organizations with Nathan Evans | Peerdom (50 mins)
Feeling floating and confused about who’s doing what and when in your organization? Nathan Evans was too, which lead him to start Peerdom. At its core, their work believes that seeing something tangible and visual in front of you is a powerful way to make sense of how we work with each other.
Distributed roles replace the manager | Frederik Laloux (12 mins)
It's hard for many people to understand how a team can operate if there is no manager or team leader. The principle is actually quite simple: we just need to stop thinking in terms of boxes (jobs) and think in terms of roles. And then to distribute the roles of the box we used to call "manager". In this video I share some of the typical roles; how you can define the roles and how you can allocate them.
How To Distribute Work Into Autonomous Roles | Corporate Rebels (4 mins)
Do you get to use your strengths at work every day? If not, you're not alone. Painfully, a staggering 67% of employees don’t use their main talents in day-to-day activities. Talk about a waste of talent. Luckily, there’s another way to get things done. How? By distributing work into autonomous roles and letting people pick up the ones that fit their talents and interests.
Making the new roles structure visible | Frederik Laloux (6 mins)
We are all used to org charts. So much so that when the pyramid goes, many people mistakenly believe any form of structure in gone too. You'll make your life a lot easier, I believe, if you make the new structure as visible as possible for everyone to be reminded, again and again, about the structure and roles in the new organization.
Maptio (role mapping software) demo | Maptio (8 mins)
A walk-through of all of the main features of Maptio and a preview of some new developments.