Practices

There are many skills and talents required to run a business, build amazing products and be a purposeful company. While our teams are made up of skills required for them to achieve their goals, internal opportunities to grow skills and crafts are part of the continuous learning culture that we want to bring. From Dan Pink we know that one of the things that people need is Mastery, along with Autonomy and Purpose.

Make People Awesome and Practices

We ask people to bring their whole self at work, which means we ask people to bring skills they have developed by studying in school or skills they have learned by self studying and practicing. Traditional organizations group people by functional titles and roles. The opportunities for them to grow in the organizations are usually limited around that role and opportunities that those functions offer. A modern approach to this is needed to allow people to grow not only on 1 skill but also explore other skills, combine them and become people that feel accomplished and valuable.

Continuous Delivery and Practices

Technology changes by minutes. Business is always under competitive pressure and volatile markets that bring innovative and creative new ways of solving them. Organizations need to keep growing new practices and mature the ones they have already in place. By allowing our people to get trained and try hands on new practices, we enable our organizations to be ahead on new technologies, new business models and new governance practices. All of these enable agility in business and in how we better serve our customers

Make Safety a Prerequisite and Practices

For people to grow their skills, try new skills and decide how to use their skills when they join a team, safety needs to be in place as an enablement of this growth. If people font’s feel safe to speak about new skills they want to learn and try, we will miss opportunities to innovate. We will also see people leaving the organization, which is a loss on the investment we made to hire and grow them.

Experiment and Learn Rapidly and Practices

Skills grow by practicing them. Yes, training is one way to learn, but doing is better. Putting in action what people learn is about allowing experimentation of new ideas, new approaches, new tools and new technologies. Only when new lessons are put in action in our specific context, we can say for sure that we have learned. Only then we can say with confidence if new skills are valuable for us to implement and grow more.