Taking the #ResponsiveOrg discussion scales to work
#ResponsiveOrg is a growing community of people connecting to help each other make our orgs more responsive. Last night a bunch of us met up in London, UK (click here to find or run a meetup near you).
A week ago, Luke Grange posted instructions on how to create a tool to help your organisation’s responsive conversations happen. I figured I’d take inspiration and create a large version of the discussion scales for people to view from afar as I introduced it to the room, and mini-scales for people to have breakout conversations and ‘take home’ to help them have conversations in their own orgs.
You could create your own to help your discussion, and tweet with the #ResponsiveOrg hashtag to let people know how it helped. You can learn more about the shifts by ‘Saving’ the ResponsiveOrg presentation and viewing the speaker notes.
Here’s how we used them (there’s not set way, this is just one approach of many):
- I provided context for 5 mins about what ResponsiveOrg is (a global community that promotes and enables a fundamental shift in our way of organising and working), why it was created (to help all the people around the world that a broadly working towards the same goal to connect with each other), how people can get involved (attend/lead a local meetup, co-brand content, etc), and so on.
- I talked people through the ResponsiveOrg sliders. Considering that typically, in order to create value, orgs optimised for efficiency. Nowadays, given the rate of change in the world is accelerating, we’re increasingly seeing examples of why and how orgs are in fact optimising for responsiveness in some areas.
- People then formed small groups to discuss where their orgs are on the sliders.
Of the five mini-scales we created, only one remained ☺
