Reading the PDF? Here’s the live version: User Manual of Me & Co.
<aside> ℹ️ What Product Discovery achieves in product work, People Discovery replicates in teams and organisations: comprehensive contextual understanding and clear situational awareness with a focus on needs and boundaries – which we then can transform into value in terms of effectiveness, efficiency, and quality. In this case: better work and results paired with more cohesion and trust.
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The “User Manual of Me” is my proven centrepiece. Over the years, I have stripped the somewhat more widespread “Manager Readme” of its authoritarian directive character and reshaped it into a tool for curiosity and democratic inclusion.
The basic principle is as simple as it is effective: making people visible in all their relevant aspects to others. Only what is explicit can be communicated and negotiated – ideally on an equal footing. Guiding questions: What do I need to do my best work? What do I bring to my team? What is essential to me and motivates my behaviour? What do I stand for? What else helps you understand me?
At the same time, we become more tangible to each other as individuals. Especially in location- and time-flexible teams, this is an invaluable advantage for building sustainable bonds. This is not only important for human reasons: trust needs a sense of mutual care. Competence, accountability, and reliability are also necessary but not sufficient on their own. Therefore, even the most professionally excellent team with a transactional culture ("mercenary mentality") can never reach the potential of a team with a relational culture.
<aside> <img src="/icons/slideshow_gray.svg" alt="/icons/slideshow_gray.svg" width="40px" /> “People Discovery” Talk @ Product Camp Berlin 2024
People Discovery (PCAMPB 2024)
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<aside> 👉 See Hybrid Team Canvas for my full framework for happy high-performing teams.
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I would be glad to help you with implementing People Discovery in your team or company. Contact me to learn more about how it would fit your needs.
To get you kickstarted I can offer you a research-backed teamwork quality assessment The assessment wil help you understand where teams struggle and prioritise interventions.
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[Want to learn more about myself, what matters to me, my preferred ways of working, and what I bring to the team? 👉 Take a look at my 📖 User Manual of Me](https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVM2EL0cM=/?share_link_id=317001914984)
Want to learn more about myself, what matters to me, my preferred ways of working, and what I bring to the team? 👉 Take a look at my 📖 User Manual of Me
Download a PDF of the Miro board
Download a PDF of the Miro board
<aside> 📄 Variant in Notion: 👉 User Manual of Me for Sascha
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<aside> 📄 My core values
Live version: 👉 Core Values (personal)
Board with my prioritised core values (PDF)
Board with my prioritised core values (PDF)
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<aside> 📄 Leadership: My Insights, Beliefs, and Principles (Mindmap)
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