The Potential of Work Out Loud and Work Out Loud Circles for Professional Development
1. The Potential of Work Out
Loud & Work Out Loud
Circles for Professional
Development.
by Helen Crump
Work Out Loud
2. Work Out Loud = Observable Work + Narrating Your
Work
Narrating your work: “journaling (blogging, microblogging
etc.) what you are doing in an open way”.
Observable work: “creating/modifying/
storing your work in places that others
can see it, follow it and contribute to it
IN PROCESS”.
Open Networks
Enterprise Social Networks
Williams, 2010
3. Work Out Loud
• breaks down knowledge silos
• transfers knowledge between
distributed individuals /teams
• makes tacit knowledge more explicit
• fosters connection, support and
collaboration
the benefits
4. “Working Out Loud starts with
making your work visible in such a
way that it might help others. When
you do that – when you work in a
more open, connected way – you can
build a purposeful network that makes
you more effective and provides access
to more opportunities.”
Stepper, 2015
Work Out Loud – the book.
5. What German companies want, it turns out, is what
every company wants.
They want to be more agile, to learn from mistakes
and leverage successes, to spread good ideas and
practices more quickly. They feel that having
employees who work out loud can help them achieve
these things.
Work Out Loud – the change programme.
6. If we want to help millions of people work out loud – individuals,
companies, and organizations that make the planet better– we’re
going to need more people who can spread the practice.
…Perhaps you’re an independent consultant trying to help your
clients work out loud. Or you’re inside an organization and trying to
spread the practice there. What if you want to customize everything
for your specific organization’s tools, culture, and kind of work?
Work Out Loud – practitioner certification.
7. "Working Out Loud: The
making of a movement"
April 9, 2016. Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ
8. Work Out Loud Circles.
Help you build your own network
toward a goal you care about in 12
weeks.
Circles help you develop a mindset
and habit you can apply to any goal.
These small peer support groups are
now in 16 countries and in
organizations ranging from multi-
national firms to universities to
humanitarian groups.
9. Work Out Loud – keeps on growing
Academic staff development?
Employability skill for graduates?
11. Why Research Work Out Loud?
• labelling /packaging - role of
language in leveraging momentum
• knowledge sharing paradox -
individual/organization (power)
• implications of greater visibility of
tacit knowledge
• Work Out Loud implicated in other
emerging network phenomena or
‘movements’
12. only 3 research papers on the topic.
• Margaryan, A. et al. (2014) Narrating Your
Work: An Approach to Supporting
Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Teams.
• Pearce, D. (2014) Developing a Method for
Measuring ‘Working Out Loud.
• Sergi, V. & Benneau, C. (2015) When talk is
text: the performativity of working out
loud on Twitter.
Gap in the Literature.
13. How is Work Out Loud Constructed in
Discourse?
Michel Foucault
Language, Knowledge and
Power
14. Thank you for listening.
helen.crump@open.ac.uk
@crumphelen
helen.crump.net
… lets others better know you, your
work and what you are trying to
achieve.
15. Resources.
The book: Stepper, John. Working Out Loud: For a Better Career and Life. New York: Ikigai Press, 2015.
The website: http://workingoutloud.com/
The circle guides: http://workingoutloud.com/circle-guides/
Sign up for a circle: http://powercrowds.squarespace.com/sign/ (or start your own)
The TedX Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpjNl3Z10uc
Work Out Loud Week: https://wolweek.wordpress.com/
The Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/workingoutloud/?multi_permalinks=1081510698582823¬if_t=group_highlig
hts¬if_id=1463002848433236
The journal articles:
- Margaryan, Anoush, Eleni Boursinou, Dane Lukic, and Hans de Zwart. “Narrating Your Work: An Approach to
Supporting Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Teams.” Knowledge Management Research & Practice 13, no. 4
(November 2015): 391–400. doi:10.1057/kmrp.2013.58.
- - Pearce, Dennis E. “Developing a Method for Measuring ‘Working Out Loud.’” University of Kentucky, 2014.
http://uknowledge.uky.edu/finance_etds/4.
- Sergi, Viviane, and Claudine Bonneau. “When Talk Is Text: The Performativity of Working out Loud on Twitter.”
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Claudine_Bonneau/publication/279853541_When_talk_is_text_The_perfo
rmativity_of_working_out_loud_on_Twitter/links/559c391e08ae7f3eb4cfff96.pdf.
Editor's Notes
knowledge sharing paradox
build organizational knowledge from individual knowledge-sharing. Most workers do not care about organizational knowledge bases. They care about what they need to get work done. People will freely share their knowledge if they remain in control of it. Enterprise knowledge sharing will never be as good as what networked individuals can do. Individuals who own their knowledge networks will invest more in them.