Unicorn Rising challenge: WORKING NAKED Visualise Work

The “Open” ways of managing and working that Teal Unicorn introduce to our clients result in huge improvements to results and morale.

Why should I believe Teal Unicorn? You don’t need to believe us. There are many more exponents of these ideas that we call Open, including some prominent business leaders.  But you don’t need to believe anyone. Just try it, in small experiments.

So here is a challenge, one of our Unicorn Rising challenges. Follow this course of completely practical activity (and some totally optional theoretical background) for one month, a few hours a week, and see for yourself the results you get from Open ways of managing and working.

We predict you will get 10-30% productivity improvements after a month.

Again, we don’t care if you believe us. We want you to try it for yourself and see.

We show you how to apply a few of the concepts of Open to change just one aspect of how you work, and manage work, within an area that you control, as a safe-to-fail short-term experiment.

Will you rise to the challenge?

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This course is a work in progress. In fact it is wildly experimental, the first iteration. It’s not even finished, but there is enough here that you can try it, for free!!. Please buckle up and bear with us. It’s free, so we welcome your feedback to make it better for future iterations.

This course leads you through a challenge activity for a month. This challenge is to visualise your work. We call it “Working Naked” because that is the title of our book on the topic.

You will see how simply making work visible has an amazing effect on communication, collaboration, prioritisation, performance, and optimisation of flow. We will use a Kanban board and a Value Stream Map. Even if you are familiar with those, try the experiment if you are not already using them. And if you are using them, you already know how powerful they are, so take the challenge to another team that doesn’t.

You will do the challenge self-paced with support from us at Teal Unicorn. Expect up to one day in the first week, half a day in the second week, then 2 or 3 hours a week for the last two weeks.

(Spend more hours if you want to, if you dive into the theory. Spend longer on the challenge if you want to: we give you three months access!).

You will

• See for yourself how these concepts improve your work: better results and better working lives.
• Learn some useful practical tools and techniques that you can apply anywhere.
• Learn more about modern ways of working along the way.

Start now!

This is the first of a series of four challenges.

You can do them in any order or you can just do one, but they’re designed as a sequence. More on that later….

This course is offered by Teal Unicorn, a global management consultancy.

Learn more about us…

We have consistently proven the effectiveness of our body of knowledge, “Open”, with our clients. Now we want to prove it to you!