Show Your Work

New comfort with social sharing, combined with the proliferation of new social tools, offer easy, useful means of sharing not just what we do but how we get things done. This title supports productivity, improves performance, encourages reflective practice, speeds communication, and helps to surface challenges, bottlenecks, and that elusive tacit knowledge. For the worker it illuminates strengths, talents, struggles, and the reality of how days are spent. For the co-worker or colleague it solves a problem, saves time, or builds on existing knowledge. And for management it helps to capture who.

Show Your Work: The Payoffs and How-to's of Working Out Loud; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Call It What You Like; Showing Your Work Isn't New; Showing Your Work Isn't Mystical; It's Not Just for "Knowledge Workers"; No One Said It All Had to Be Public; No One Said It Had to Be Instagram; Finally: Showing Your Work Is Not About "Information"; Benefits to Organizations; Increased Efficiencies; Overcoming Traditional Organizational Communication Traps; Learning From Mistakes; Preserving Institutional Knowledge; Improving Public Perception and Awareness of Work and Effort.

Better Customer ServiceReducing Space Between Leaders and Others; Other Benefits of Showing Work; Organizational Communication Case Study: Nasa's Monday Notes; Benefits to Organizations?; Workers: What's In It For You?; Establishing Credibility/Expertise; Raising Your Profile; Improving Performance; Creating Dialogue; Getting Help: Author's Story; Getting Help: New Ways of Working and Communicating at Yammer; Replacing Résumé with Something More Meaningful; Explaining Your Thinking Helps You Learn; Teaching Others Improves Practice; Reflection Improves Practice; Exercise 1; Exercise 2.

Exercise 3Paying It Fo…