Moving Forward Together - 15 Ways
Here are 15 powerful ways you can begin to bring the Work It Out Way into your workplace, business, agency or community, starting today. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list, simply a few suggestions. You will think of others!
1. Host a “Just One Conversation” Session
Pick a topic from this book and invite 2–5 people to discuss it over coffee or lunch. No agenda. Just show up, share and listen. What’s one perspective that really resonated with you? Could this be the start of a process?
2. Create a Pocket of Purpose at Work
Bring together a small group of colleagues who want to contribute beyond their job descriptions. Choose a shared cause, idea, or change you want to make - inside or outside the business. Where can you make a difference?
3. Re-start Your Team Meetings
Start each meeting with a personal check-in that brings something from each person not directly related to their job. It might be a family story, a personal challenge, a point of gratitude, a success story, an example of kindness, etc. It sets the tone and shifts the focus from tasks to people, from transactional to interpersonal, from hierarchy to community.
4. Build Your Inverted Pyramid
List out the people you trust, admire and would love to work with. Then reach out. Invite one person to collaborate or co-create something with you. Who’s already part of your ecosystem?
5. Write about Your Purpose
Spend 15 minutes writing about what matters most to you and how you want your work and life to reflect that. Share it with someone you trust. Are you building a life that can bring all that really matters to you?
6. Reimagine Your HR Function as ‘Human Relationships’
Start a project in your organization to explore a shift in HR - from compliance to connection. How might you move beyond policies into people-first practices, such as coaching, listening, community formation and co-creating growth. What if HR became the heartbeat of your culture?
7. Create a 10-Minute Daily Reflection Practice
Set aside a quiet moment each day (morning or evening) to ask yourself: Where am I heading? What matters now? What do I want to create today? Could your personal time with yourself be your most valuable daily meeting?
8. Hold a “No Agenda” Gathering
Bring together a few colleagues or friends with no formal agenda. Just talk, explore, listen and see what surfaces. Sometimes the best ideas come from nothing being forced. What would you talk about if there was nothing to produce?
9. Make Kindness a Leadership KPI (Key Performance Indicator) for Yourself
Choose kindness, encouragement and reaching out as leadership metrics. Ask: Who did I support this week? What if your legacy wasn’t just mor performance, but more caring?
10. AI Insurance Policy
What is our strategy for ensuring we grow and thrive in an AI world? Set up a working group to explore this in your Organization. Who will be on this group?
11. Chat with AI About These Ideas
Use ChatGPT or another AI platform to explore some of the points in this book. Talk about how to integrate Work It Out into your organisation or develop new ways of working that are more interpersonal rather than transactional. Begin this Chat today.
12. Train Your Staff in the Work It Out Way
Share this book with staff and then set up an initial pilot workshops to discuss. These could be exploratory sessions to introduce the methodology to your core group.
13. Get Your Senior Team Involved - now!
Host a facilitated session to help your senior leaders engage with these ideas and explore a people-first approach. We can help you design and run the conversation. Where might your team take this?
14. License Our Training Across Your Organisation
By licensing the Work It Out Way, you equip internal facilitators to deliver this work at scale - building long-term competence, collaboration and culture from the inside out. How could the Work it Out Way become part of your organizational DNA?
15. Have a Conversation with Me
So, here’s the question. What’s the biggest problem in your organisation, your area, your world of work? What are you serious about changing? I’m happy to help in any way I can. You can find out more about a Consultation call here or book one below
1. Host a “Just One Conversation” Session
Pick a topic from this book and invite 2–5 people to discuss it over coffee or lunch. No agenda. Just show up, share and listen. What’s one perspective that really resonated with you? Could this be the start of a process?
2. Create a Pocket of Purpose at Work
Bring together a small group of colleagues who want to contribute beyond their job descriptions. Choose a shared cause, idea, or change you want to make - inside or outside the business. Where can you make a difference?
3. Re-start Your Team Meetings
Start each meeting with a personal check-in that brings something from each person not directly related to their job. It might be a family story, a personal challenge, a point of gratitude, a success story, an example of kindness, etc. It sets the tone and shifts the focus from tasks to people, from transactional to interpersonal, from hierarchy to community.
4. Build Your Inverted Pyramid
List out the people you trust, admire and would love to work with. Then reach out. Invite one person to collaborate or co-create something with you. Who’s already part of your ecosystem?
5. Write about Your Purpose
Spend 15 minutes writing about what matters most to you and how you want your work and life to reflect that. Share it with someone you trust. Are you building a life that can bring all that really matters to you?
6. Reimagine Your HR Function as ‘Human Relationships’
Start a project in your organization to explore a shift in HR - from compliance to connection. How might you move beyond policies into people-first practices, such as coaching, listening, community formation and co-creating growth. What if HR became the heartbeat of your culture?
7. Create a 10-Minute Daily Reflection Practice
Set aside a quiet moment each day (morning or evening) to ask yourself: Where am I heading? What matters now? What do I want to create today? Could your personal time with yourself be your most valuable daily meeting?
8. Hold a “No Agenda” Gathering
Bring together a few colleagues or friends with no formal agenda. Just talk, explore, listen and see what surfaces. Sometimes the best ideas come from nothing being forced. What would you talk about if there was nothing to produce?
9. Make Kindness a Leadership KPI (Key Performance Indicator) for Yourself
Choose kindness, encouragement and reaching out as leadership metrics. Ask: Who did I support this week? What if your legacy wasn’t just mor performance, but more caring?
10. AI Insurance Policy
What is our strategy for ensuring we grow and thrive in an AI world? Set up a working group to explore this in your Organization. Who will be on this group?
11. Chat with AI About These Ideas
Use ChatGPT or another AI platform to explore some of the points in this book. Talk about how to integrate Work It Out into your organisation or develop new ways of working that are more interpersonal rather than transactional. Begin this Chat today.
12. Train Your Staff in the Work It Out Way
Share this book with staff and then set up an initial pilot workshops to discuss. These could be exploratory sessions to introduce the methodology to your core group.
13. Get Your Senior Team Involved - now!
Host a facilitated session to help your senior leaders engage with these ideas and explore a people-first approach. We can help you design and run the conversation. Where might your team take this?
14. License Our Training Across Your Organisation
By licensing the Work It Out Way, you equip internal facilitators to deliver this work at scale - building long-term competence, collaboration and culture from the inside out. How could the Work it Out Way become part of your organizational DNA?
15. Have a Conversation with Me
So, here’s the question. What’s the biggest problem in your organisation, your area, your world of work? What are you serious about changing? I’m happy to help in any way I can. You can find out more about a Consultation call here or book one below
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