More good days
In their first meeting, we ask them to remember a good day they had at work. The kind of day you’re eager to talk about when you get home. The kind of day where you feel alive at work.
“Your goal in this program,” we tell them, “is to have more days like that.”
Five new WOL programs
“Working Out Loud” has evolved. The original method is still networking and visibility. And new methods apply to doing all sorts of work (inner work, team work, collaboration, leadership) “out loud”—together with other people in a trusted peer Circle.
These five new methods—and more to come—are designed to strengthen feelings of self-efficacy and connection.
“If you have to teach kindness, then you have already lost.”
Does it help to teach people how to relate to each other in the workplace?
Or is it too late?
Office-ism
Employees are not thriving at work and they haven’t been for a very long time.
What if we knew the reasons why? How long would it take for conventional wisdom and workplace practices to change?
Unsafe at any level
I used to think a new generation of employees would, inevitably, make companies more open and collaborative, maybe even kinder.
But what I see is that young new joiners don’t change the company. The company changes them.
Unless you stage a kind of positive intervention.
WOL Circle Workbooks now in SPANISH and FRENCH
Our newest translations make it easier to connect and empower more people in more places.
The first scientific paper on the effectiveness of Working Out Loud®
Can a social learning program change people’s behavior and sense of empowerment? If so, can these changes stick?
“Yes” and “Yes”.
This post summarizes the study, its findings, and ideas for future research.
What happened to “Working” in the past 50 years
50 years after Working captured the experiences and yearnings of everyday workers, the themes remain the same. Our search for feeling effective and fulfilled—for meaning—isn’t new. Helping people with that search is as important as ever.
The Voiceless at Work
We must seek ways to give a voice to "those that never sing" so they can offer “all their music in them.” When we humanize the workplace in this way, we make work and life richer for all of us.
Everybody Matters
When it comes to how their employees relate to each other and to the work they do, Everybody Matters serves as an inspiring example of the way things could be.