🏅Overcoming Barriers
Some tips to make working in the open as easy as possible.
💡Summary:
Find out how to overcome barriers to open working:
Time - use timers and build on pre-existing work
Confidence - practice, and ask a colleague to read over your work
Where to share your work - the Open Working and Re-Use Medium Publication
⏰Time
Although open working will help you to save time later on, many find it difficult to get started. Here are some tips for writing speedy weeknotes:
Use a timer. Here are our workshop slides with timers attached!
Share something that you already have! That could be summarising a report that you've done already, or writing up the process of how you did something.
"You only need to dedicate 30 minutes per week"
-Catalyst Re-use Circle
🌟Confidence
Sharing your work can be intimidating - but it doesn't have to be!
Start small - challenge yourself to write 100-200 words
Ask a colleague to read over your work
Have faith that your writing will be useful to someone else! What might seem boring to you could help someone else solve a problem they've been working on for months.
Practice, practice, practice!
🌍 Where to share
So, you've written your weeknote - now what? There might be a few places where it would be appropriate to share your work. Here are some ideas of where you could share it:
Publish to our Open Working and Re-Use Medium to reach others in the sector who have taken part in the Open Working Programme.
🔗Visit the Open Working and Re-Use Medium Publication
Share on your own Medium account.
Share on your organisation's blog.
Adapted from Christine Cawthorne's "Ways to Make Working in the Open Really, Really Easy"
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