Interactive Online Workshop:
Productivity Tools & Practices for Individuals
Zoom | December 14th,
8am MST/4pm CET
In the new world of work teams are increasingly relying on their members to be self-organized. No matter where you work: we all need to stay on task, wrangle our to-do lists, focus on what matters, and take care of ourselves along the way.
This 2 hour interactive workshop will help you in all these areas: increase your productivity & focus, and find a more spacious & relaxed way to get through your work. You'll leave with tools you can immediately integrate into your work & life.
Your Guide
Drew believes that by remembering more equitable, democratic ways of working together we can solve the crisis of our time. He has worked within activist movements, mutual aid groups responding to disaster, income-sharing communes, radical self-directed K-12 schools, cooperatives, and non-profits as a participant, facilitator, and technologist.
He has over 15 years of experience working for himself and on small self-directed teams.
Drew Hornbein
What people say about us
Irem Tumer
UNFPA
"The training was the perfect way to equip our team with tools to overcome challenges of organizing in a decentralised and value-driven way. Rich and Nati guided the journey with commitment and positivity at every step and we supported us with their vast experience and knowledge. The atmosphere of safety and trust they created was inspiring and set the tone for our follow-up plans."
Sean Andrew
Forum for the Future
Nicola Round
Adfree Cities
“Participating in The Hum's course brought home and demystified questions of what new forms of governance and organising for change can look and feel like. Their way of grounding theory into practice through simple and clear language, applied learning opportunities and sharing examples from the field encouraged me to try new things out in my own organisational context."
"I have come away from the course understanding that deciding to have a flat structure was just the first step for us. There is a lot of work to be done to build the structures and processes that we need to thrive. The Hum has given us the tools and the inspiration to help us on this journey. I feel much more confident about trying new ways of organising."
Become a self-managed pro
Without formal hierarchy and management, self-managed organizations need easy-to-implement tools & patterns that keep things running smoothly. Individual team members need supportive tools & patterns to manage themselves and get their work done.
In this interactive workshop we will look at tools and techniques to better manage your time, tasks, and most importantly take care of yourself. By using cycles of intention setting and reflection you’ll develop patterns of time management, tame your to-do lists, and get the habit of personal accountability. We will examine methods of iterative self-improvement through setting small goals and achieving personal mastery with personal retrospectives. Finally we will explore tools to self-regulate: how to identify what we need to thrive, stay in our zone of growth, and build personal rituals to show up as our best selves.
Expect a two hour interactive session, group sharing, and practice tools to support your growth into a self-directed all star.
Watch a taster of the content in this video.
Learning Objectives
Cycles of intentions, creation, and reflection
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Kanban, or how to make your to-do list manageable
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Achieving deeper focus
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Personal accountability
Iterative self improvement
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Small goals
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Personal Mastery
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Personal retrospectives
Self regulation
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Comfort, stretch, panic zones – Stay within your zone of tolerance to avoid burnout
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What you need to thrive – Self Care Labor (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly)
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Demystifying ritual – Personal rhythms that keep you sane
And the awesome thing is that all these tools & practices apply at multiple scales: you can use them solo to improve your own productivity, and you can extend them to include your whole team in better ways of collaboration. For example: personal retrospectives will flow with team retrospectives, cycles of intention setting & reflection will map to team tools such as Trello or Asana, patterns for self-regulation and self-care will map to setting boundaries within a team and care work within organisations.
Check out this video to get a sense of one of the features we'll be covering.
The Hum training methodology
Our training method combines four elements:
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Our knowledge is rooted in our lived experience in our own organisations at the forefront of collaborative work practice.
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We bring examples from different groups around the world, as well as research from academic studies.
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We host participatory learning exercises for participants to reflect on how these lessons apply in their group context.
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We don’t arrive with predetermined solutions, instead we facilitate conversations for people to co-design solutions that are right for them.
