📣 Announcing the NWOW Course: Oct Cohort
Explore the patterns found in progressive organisations
TLDR: there are
sixthree spaces left on my New Ways of Working online course, starting October 18 - hit reply to reserve yours or find out more. Here are all the details: https://marco.work/courseAfter three full cohorts in 2023, the course has scored (out of ten):
9.7 - I would recommend the course to my colleagues (that’s a ‘net promoter score’ of 90 - over 80 is ‘world class’) 🎉
If you and/or your colleagues would benefit from a commitment to learning about and experimenting with the patterns found in progressive organisations, then join me for cohort #13 of my New Ways of Working online course 😊
Course purpose
Ultimately, the course objective is for you to enjoy your job more and to become an even better member of your team. Along the way, you’ll learn collaboration and leadership skills, how to hold healthy meetings, and how to make better decisions, faster. You’ll learn techniques to help you become more comfortable giving feedback, know what’s getting in the way of being a great team, and understand the mindset needed to help make change happen.
To do this we'll borrow from the best sources. These include agile, self-management, organisational psychology, and the most progressive companies on the planet.
Course overview
The course is led by me, Mark Eddleston and I love delivering it 🥰
I’m a new ways of working nerd, consultant, facilitator and trainer. Since 2015 I’ve been practising new ways of working and synthesising the mountain of information that’s out there.
Throughout the course, you’ll be practising all the way. You'll get better at listening, teamwork, and self-organising. There will be pre-work ahead of each weekly live session on Butter (like Zoom but awesome). In between, you'll have the chance to ask questions on our Slack. You'll become familiar with Notion, where course content is shared, and Focusmate, which will help you to get through it. You'll experience Mural and Liberating Structures, plus loads more of Mark’s favourite facilitation techniques.
Crucially, you'll be designing experiments and implementing them in your own team. You'll also form partnerships with fellow participants who will help you, hold you accountable, and be depending on you.
What we’ll work on
Week 1: Challenges - identify what's getting in the way of great work.
Week 2: Teamwork - psychological safety & a culture of helpfulness.
Week 3: Mindset - this work requires mindset shifts.
Week 4: Feedback - understand the impact you have on others and share the impact others have on you.
Week 5: Decision-making - alternatives to top-down and consensus.
Throughout the course, you will experience collaboration tools and practices that you can pop in your pocket, take back to work, and use immediately.
Cost 💵
£750 plus VAT - attending with one (or more) colleague/s.
£1,000 plus VAT - attending alone.
*Your New Ways of Working journey will be more impactful if you have colleagues along for the ride, so you are advised (and financially incentivised) to bring one or two along.
Registration & eligibility 🎟️
To secure your place/s please check the eligibility criteria on the course page then send a note to confirm (mark.eddleston@marco.work) and that’s it, you’re enrolled ✨
I hope to meet you and your colleagues soon!
What 2023 participants say 📢
- The immersive nature of the course combined with a fast pace made it really engaging and massively increased what I took away. I loved that the best practice was built into how Mark ran the course each week, there are so many things I've copied for my own team meetings like check-ins, liberating structures and EasyRetro. The idea of the experiments seemed really daunting at the start of the course, but I've completely changed my mind. It's a way of telling people upfront 'I don't know if this will work or not' and 'I need your feedback' which myself and the team have found really empowering. I also learnt a lot from the breadth of experience participants on the course, it was really fun getting to know everyone.
- Mark's style is warm and reflective and I looked forward to these sessions all week. He is a great facilitator, super knowledgeable and has some brilliant facilitation tools that I enjoyed using/experiencing.
- I loved the structure - having a different focus for each session and a range of materials to familiarise yourself with in advance meant the time spent together ‘live’ was fruitful
- I really appreciated the welcoming atmosphere; any new social setting is challenging for me, but you did a great job of helping me to feel at ease, which made it easier for me to participate and learn - thank you! I also appreciated the range of learning materials provided. Finally, it was brilliant to see the things we learned about being put into action. I especially enjoyed the final session, because the practical example of decision making resonated with some of my own experiences, and opened my eyes to ways to do things better.
- The diversity of the cohort, there were so many different perspectives that helped me think out side of the box. Also, the effort gone into the perpetration of materials, and the format of Notion was SO EASY to follow - really great!
- I appreciated the de-mystification of New Ways of Working - in my org, the language can sound a bit foreign, but this course translated it into ways I intuitively understand and introduced structures to make them function properly. It makes NWOW feel... dare I day... safe to try.
