48. 1. Follow John Stepper, Austin
Kleon, Jane Bozarth
2. Start internally - intranet
3. Create social media profile
4. Join communities on FB, Linked
In
49. 4. Join a WOL Circle
5. Create a NOW page
6. Invest 15 minutes a day to show
up and share
Notas do Editor
Two related by different approaches that I want to share with you
The first is by John Stepper which is a goal orientated approach and we will look at that first.
Started here - 2015 - before John’s book was published.
facilitating for Helen Bevan and horizons team, team building and shared a graphic of what they were focussing on and this included WOL and John Stepper and I asked what it was, and they offered to introduce me to him
Invited to meet John when he was working with the Horizons team - here we are in 2015
John Stepper told me that when in early stages of developing WOL his wife said ‘isn’t it just blogging?’
So much more - here are the 5 elements
One way to do this is through a WOL Circle. In 2015 started first WOL Circle in my team, H S A, helping test the early version of the guides that John has developed.
The next year I did Seth Godins AltMBA - early task then book review that impacted your life - I did John Steppers book and Susan connected with me as she was interested in it as well.
We became WOL accountability partners after the course - talk about that later
I hate networking - last event went to was RSA networking event, left after 15 minutes. Traditional networking approach is can this person be useful to me?
New networking - approach of Generosity, appreciation, contribution, connection, community. How can I be helpful to you - lets see what develops
Paradigm shift - learning in health and care - published articles (6-12 months after learning done) or books (1-2 years in development)
Conferences (papers submitted and accepted)
little if any opportunity for connection and exploration
Now blogs and curated newsletters (like the Edge) WOL opportunity to learn together
WOL - sharing what you are reading, who is influencing your work
Tweeting about books I am reading and thinking in line with Claire about online book club (idea from Helen Bevan)
Someone called Gary tweeted about his annotated book list that he posts on his blog and mentioned someone called Perry Timms and his book Transformational HR
Ordered book
Then posted about it on Linked In and tagged Perry and Gary into it
(Spirit of generosity)
Perry invited me to join his online community on FB and connected there
He asked me more about what I was doing
He was excited about it and we had a chat over messenger
He asked if I would be interested in stepping in for him at a Ted Talk (he had been asked to do 2 that year and one clashed)
Met in real life for pizza
Speaking at Future of Work and meet up
Supporting each other’s work
Later tell you how a tweet about a book this led to Perry Tims becoming National Advisor to WBT
Read a book you enjoy
I now contact author to tell them - find them on twitter or Linked In
Why? Sucking up? Trying to network with rich and famous?
Or - live life of appreciation and generosity and we know that random acts of kindness benefit us as the giver, and as someone who has written books I appreciate it and who knows what synchronicities can lead from th
And often no response at all - eg Professor Pferrer - used his book to inform by Ted Talk and told him how useful it had been - on Linked In and tagged him in that - no response at all. Was I disappointed. No, because I am doing this because it is who I am/want to be
Did this
Naming my podcast - Instead of my suggestion, Cup of Teal with Helen Sanderson
Policies and procedures for Wellbeing Teams
Referral cards
Read idea in Neil’s book
Developed ideas for them
Talked about them on Linked In - showed rough ideas/statements for cards
Asked people for comments/other ideas
From this took people’s suggestions to create top 10 possibilities
Asked people to vote
Took top 6 - got designed and printed
Sent set to people who had helped to say thank you
CEO of voyage talking about what learning in his back to the floor week each year
Sarah Livedas lived in care home and posted about this then made into Guardian article
Learning from this I did tweets when I was on shift in Oxfordshire and summarised learning in a blog on what I had learned
Insights from the inside - don’t think anyone ever publicly shared what it was like to do a CQC registration interview before and I did a before/during/after film of my experience of a CQC inspection
Health - Saskia Dorman, consultant in hospice creates sketchnotes to summarise what she is trying and learning - share Confirmation Practices one
I contacted her to say how great they were and any tips to help me learn - share mine
If nothing else - you will meet some amazing people
helps people find you
John Stepper post about this recently
Mark Hall, RSA doing research around self managed organisations
Asked people who was working in this area and my name was mentioned - because of my posts on Linked In
I was one of a range of people and organisations however this connected led to a partnership with RSA and Wellbeing Teams being part of Transform Programme
Job descriptions?
Sharing on social media an expectation for leaders?
Gone are the days when it is acceptable for a leader to say ‘I don’t do social media”
Follow John Stepper on Twitter (tell him you were on this webinar!), sign up for his blog and buy his book or Austin Kleon’s book, Show Your Work
Start internally, as John did, if your organisation has a intranet, yammer, Slack share what you are working on, reading, learning, be helpful, be appreciative
Create a Now page, update it and share it each week
Read out Loud - share what you are reading, appreciate the authors
Find people who share your interests, eg Beth has a wonderful FB group for business founders, or groupd on Linked In and start to contribute
Join a WOL Circle
Starter circle, based on WOL Circles but over 6 weeks instead of 12. First week in July every Tuesday 4 - 5 pm for 6 weeks