Fake Work
Over the past 20 years I have worked in or around organizational development, open space facilitation, strategic planning, results based management, work process re-design. Throughout all this, what has been missing for me is a way for people to know in plain language what they need to do when they arrive at work to align themselves with their team to do “real work”; that is, work that supports strategy and drives results. For me, this “last mile” (to borrow an analogy from the broadband world) has simply been missing.
Fake Work is just what you think it is: it is all about the meetings, emails, conference calls, and silly training that The Office makes fun of.
The recent book Fake Work addresses this issue head on. The authors, Brent Peterson and Gaylan Nielson (both with long, distinguished careers with groups like Covey International), define “fake work” as work that is not aligned to the strategies of an organization.
I have banded together with Jules Fauteux and April MacLeod from Talentlogix to deliver “Fake Work” workshops and in-house facilitated sessions (for teams). These have been developed by Brent and Gaylan and successfully delivered world-wide.
Download the intro to the Real Work Workshop and The Work Itself, a facilitated two day in-house work session.
We are now booking Fake Work workshops and in-house facilitated sessions. We offer a free one hour on-site presentation at your location if you live in our neck of the woods or a one hour introductory online webinar.
Contact us about this.
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