Posts from Awesome Folks #3

Author

Emily Webber
March 25, 2022

Every week, I share links on the Tacit Twitter account (@hellotacit) to posts I’ve found interesting this week. They are all collected here they are in a weekly digest, loosely grouped into themes to make them a little easier to navigate.

Enjoy!

Emily

People and culture

Links relating to people, the most important part of our organisations.

This week is all about team leadership, the impact and benefits of salary transparency and a model of motivation.

How big of a team can someone lead well? What are the factors that might decrease or increase this size? Find out more in this article

Europe is about to decide whether to make everyone's salaries public, a move that could dramatically narrow the gender pay gap.

There are six core needs researchers find are important for humans (both at work and in our personal lives). Each of us have a personal hierarchy for the six however: You might find that equity and belonging are most important to you, but choice and status are most important to your employee, your partner, your child. Getting to know them is a shortcut to better communication, as well as greater inclusivity at work. 

Organisations and systems

Links relating to our organisations as systems that people work within.

This week is my new Miro board for my existing Community of Practice kick-off canvas, why the "IT department" shouldn't be centralised and why people should be the most important part of your organisation.

Another day, another Miro template. I have now published my Community of Practice Kick-off Canvas on the Miroverse. The Tacit community of practice kick-off canvas helps get your community started or reset using a canvas framework that guides you through six questions.

It is no longer viable to design your organization around a centralised IT department. It's not agile. It's not customer focused. Here's why.

Although we are already well into the new year, I wrote this when 2022 had just started. Traditionally, new years start with good intentions being formulated. However, after two years of COVID, I believe it is not just time to formulate good intentions — it's time to formulate radical intentions.

Setting and measuring goals

Links relating to creating clarity around work, so people can get on and do it.

This week it is looking at JTBD applied to focus organisational strategy and some things to look out for when using OKRs.

Asking what really matters to customers helped focus the company’s priorities.

Understand how OKR's can negatively impact company culture, how it can create a them vs us mentality and how to ensure a successful experience

Tools and approaches for teams

Links relating to team working and tools that help them do it better.

This week we look at the importance of a meeting check-in, some quick practical tips on risk strategy and the wonderful Aino Corry talking to Uloaku Ojiaku about retrospective anti-patterns.

If you want participation in a meeting with people who don’t spend a lot of time together, one thing that can help is getting everyone to say something at the start; here is a low-pressure way to do that.

A quick way to identify risks for a new feature and think of ways to mitigate them

Podcast talking to Aino Corry about the all important retrospective and the antipatterns

Links collected on @hellotacit by @ewebber

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