🏅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!

🔗 Google slides with timers

• 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.

A post-it note of a light-bulb.

Adapted from Christine Cawthorne's "Ways to Make Working in the Open Really, Really Easy"

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