What's in your user manual?
Edition 22 of Forward+
1 big idea worth considering.
What is your work style?
What do you value in colleagues?
How should people communicate with you? Or deliver feedback?
Everyone has different answers to these questions, and the answers to these questions (and others) are what tell us how to best work with ourselves and others.
They become a user manual of sorts; a way for an entire team to have a better understanding of how to work best with the individuals on that team.
I’ve used user manuals with several teams, and the results were immensely useful. And they’re immensely useful for a reason.
They cut through the noise.
It can take many months to understand the nuances of how someone operates by observation and interaction alone. But it doesn’t have to.
User manuals are a way to cut straight to the point of how can we best work together.
But don’t feel like you have to do this from scratch.
Because I’m giving you my user manuals template below, along with the process I’ve taken my own teams through. 👇🏼