otsukare Thoughts after a day of work

Working With Transparency Habits. Something To Learn.

I posted this following text as a comment 3 days ago on Mark Surman's blog on Transparency habits, but it is still in the moderation queue. So instead of taking the chance to lose it. I'm reposting that comment here. This might need to be develop by a followup post.

Mark says:

I encourage everyone at Mozilla to ask themselves: how can we all build up our transparency habits in 2015? If you already have good habits, how can you help others? If, like me, you’re a bit rusty, what small things can you do to make your work more open?

The mistake we often do with transparency is that we think it is obvious for most people. But working in a transparent way requires a lot of education and mentoring. It’s one thing we should try to improve at Mozilla when onboarding new employees. Teaching what it means to be transparent. I’m not even sure everyone has the same notion of what transparency means already.

For example, too many times, I receive emails in private. That’s unfortunate because it creates information silos and it becomes a lot harder to open up a conversation which started in private. Because I was kind of tired of this, I created a set of slides and explanation for learning how to work with emails. Available in French and English.

Some people are afraid of working in the open for many reasons. They may come from a company where secrecy was very strong, or they had a bad experience by being too open. It takes then time to re-learn the benefits of working in the open.

So because you asked an open question :) Some items.

Let's learn together how to work in a transparent way or in the open.

Otsukare.