Show Your Work (Jane Bozarth) Book Club (September - November 2017) - Invitation

This invite was originally hosted elsewhere. Republishing here for searchability reasons across the blog.

The following listing is the reading and action plan proposed for the group starting in September 2017 to read and apply Jane’s “Show Your Work” book.

To join the Slack workspace for this group, send your request including your email address (ideally) via Twitter DM to @srjf. If you are not on Twitter, message Simon on Facebook.

In Weeks 1 to 6, each week the intention will be to:-

1. read the relevant book section

2. apply anything that is easily applied there and then (and show it!)

3. list any exercises, activities etc the reader wants to do on their own or in collaboration with others in weeks 7-9 that will need more thought and work than the above action.

W/c Monday 11 September 2017: Week 1. Introduction

1. Call it What you Like

2. Showing Your Work Isn’t New

3. Showing Your Work Isn’t Mystical

4. It’s Not Just for “Knowledge Workers”

5. Before Anyone Says “Yes, But...”

6. No One Said it All Had to Be Public

7. No One Said it Had to Be Instagram

8. Finally: Showing Your Work is Not About “Information”

9. Better Customer Service

10. Reducing Space Between Leaders and Others

11. Other Benefits of Showing Work

12. Organizational Communication Case Study: Nasa’s Monday Notes

13. Benefits to Organizations?

W/c Monday 18 September 2017: Week 2: Workers: What’s In It For You?

1. Establishing Credibility/Expertise

2. Raising Your Profile

3. Improving Performance

4. Creating Dialogue

5. Getting Help/Saving Time/Not Reinventing The Wheel

6. Getting Help: Author’s story

7. Getting Help: New Ways of Working and Communicating at Yammer

8. Replacing Résumé with Something More Meaningful

9. Explaining Your Thinking Helps You Learn

10. Teaching Others Improves Practice

11. Reflection Improves Practice

12. An Aside: Tips for Becoming More Reflective

13. Exercise 1

14. Exercise 2

15. Exercise 3

16. Paying it Forward

17. Benefits to You

W/c Monday 25 September 2017: Week 3. What Is Knowledge? and Why Do People Share It?

1. What is Knowledge? Three Views

2. But Why Would People Share What They Know?

3. Other Reasons?

4. True Story: “I Care and Want to Help”

5. Share is The New Save

6. And Finally

W/c Monday 2 October 2017: Week 4. “This Is How I Do That.”

1. Topiaries

2. Doctors in Surgery Wearing Google Glass

3. Detailed Branching E-Learning Scenario

4. Cookies Become A Business

5. Making an RSA-Style Video

6. “This is What I Do All Day”: Médicins Sans Frontiérs/Doctors Without Borders

7. “This is How I Spent This Day”: Designing A Mobile APP

8. “This is What I Do”: The Consultant

9. “This is How I Decided”: Visual Design Choices

10. “This is How I Decided”: Yammer

11. “This is What I Did Today”: Attending A Conference

12. “This is What I Learned Today”: Attending A Webinar

13. “This is How I Learned That”: How I Taught Myself...

14. “This is Why I Learned That”: New Employee Onboarding

15. “This is How I Learned That”: Using New Web Tools

16. “This is How A Government Agency Shows its Work”: The UK Ministry of Justice Digital Services Blog

17. “This is How I Created That”: Matt Guyan

18. “This is What I Did”: Demofest

19. “This is What I Did”: How I Solved A Problem

20. “This is What I Did, and Why”: Bruno Winck and UX Design

21. “This is How The Collaborative Project Looks”: A Large Aluminum Manufacturer Engages in Narrating Work. Brian Tullis and Joe Crumpler Offer an Example in One of Their Presentations.

22. “This is What I Did”: My Portfolio

23. “This is What I Can Do”: Résumé

24. “Here’s Something From My Work I Think Might Be Useful to Others”: David Byrne

25. “What are You Working on Right This Second?”: Snapshots of Working Days

26. “Showing Workflow”: 2 Approaches to Organizing A Conference

27. “Showing Workflow”: Storyboarding My Thesis

28. “Showing Workflow”: The Evolution of A Painting

29. “Showing Workflow”: Sketchnoting to Show ... Sketchnoting

30. “Showing Workflow”: Two Approaches to Planning A Book

31. “Showing Workflow”: Book Layout

W/c Monday 9 October 2017: Week 5. Learning & Development

1. What’s L&D’s Role?

2. What Does Learning Look Like?

3. What Can L&D Do?

4. For Example?

5. For Example?

6. For Example?

7. Fill New Roles

8. Support Serendipity

9. L&D Needs to Narrate Work, Too

10. Lead By Example

11. Here’s Your Chance to Show What L&D Can Do

12. Showing Learning Spawns New Learning

W/c Monday 16 October 2017: Week 6. How?

1. Ship It

2. Name Things

3. Platforms, Templates, Formats

4. How Not to Do it? Don’t Overformalize or Overengineer

5. Consider The Value of Making Things Public

6. Tools and Strategies

7. Video

8. Remember to Turn the Recorder On

9. Draw a Picture

10. Worker Concerns

11. Evaluating Efforts

12. Wenger Value-Creation Story Worksheet

13. Leaders Need to Show Their Work, Too

14. Case: The Social Coo

15. Be Honest: Are You Ready? What Do You Need to Do?

16. What Works? Lessons Learned

17. Some Realities

18. When?

19. Just Do It

20. The End

21. Ask The Right Questions

<< This ends the reading of the book. >>

W/c Monday 23 October 2017

W/c Monday 30 October 2017

W/c Monday 6 November 2017

Weeks 7 - 9. Implementing

1. Do the personal (and any group!) exercises that you have set for yourself.

2. Giving others feedback and encouragement on their work.

Week 10. Conclusion

1. So what?

2. What did I/we learn?

3. What have I/we we applied?

4. What specific actions do I/we want to do next?