METHOD: SHARED WORK
The Shared Work model puts getting to work back at the center of our collaborations. Tuesday developed this simple model after years of working with folks who had passion and commitment for making change in their systems and organizations, but struggled to figure out how to work together over time.
THE MODEL
Often the differences between collaborators — different perspectives, backgrounds, ideologies and aspirations — becomes the focus of meetings rather than getting work done together. Shared Work offers a way for us to think about taking the next step together to begin to move forward on those issues and challenges we care about in our organizations, communities, and systems.
In groups that have been successful in working together over time, there seem to be five key stances the group is able to adopt in relation to their work together.
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Shared Work — Teach Video
In this video teach by Tuesday, she demonstrates the first part of the Shared Work model in Madison, Wisconsin. The audience was a small group of community folks, including nonprofit leaders, activists, students, community members, foundations, educators, police officers, and government representatives working to make their neighborhoods better.
Shared Work not Shared Aspiration or Analysis
In this blog post about Shared Work Tuesday explains how sharing work keeps us from getting stuck in our entrenched ways of working and allows us to keep moving forward.
Other great blog posts about Shared Work:
Shared Work — Teach Video
In this video teach by Tuesday, she demonstrates the first part of the Shared Work model in Madison, Wisconsin. The audience was a small group of community folks, including nonprofit leaders, activists, students, community members, foundations, educators, police officers, and government representatives working to make their neighborhoods better.
Shared Work not Shared Aspiration or Analysis
In this blog post about Shared Work Tuesday explains how sharing work keeps us from getting stuck in our entrenched ways of working and allows us to keep moving forward.
Other great blog posts about Shared Work:
- Shared Work is Enough — a post by Tim Merry challenging the idea of shared purpose as the driver for change.
- Protopia: Our Shared Work — a post by Josh Cubista on the AoH Beyond the Basics blog bringing in the idea of Protopia to shared work.