Brie ( OL7 culture track)
brie999au opened this issue · 2 comments
Project Lead: @brie999au
Mentor: @mrjohnc
Welcome to OL7, Cohort E! This issue will be used to track your project and progress during the program. Please use this checklist over the next few weeks as you start Open Leadership Training 🎉.
Before Week 1 (Jan 31): Your first mentorship call
- Complete the OLF self-assessment (online, printable). If you're a group, each teammate should complete this assessment individually. This is here to help you set your own personal goals during the program. No need to share your results, but be ready to share your thoughts with your mentor.
- Make sure you know when and how you'll be meeting with your mentor.
Before Week 2 (Feb 7): First Cohort Call (Open by Design)
- Complete Assignment 'Write Your Vision or Mission Statement'. Leave a comment on this issue with your draft vision statement & be ready to share this on the call.
- Watch 'Mozilla & Working Open'.
- Check the Syllabus for notes and connection info for all the cohort calls.
Before Week 3 (Feb 14): Mentorship call
- Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their vision statement.
- Complete your Open Canvas (instructions, canvas). Comment on this issue with a link to your canvas.
- Start your Roadmap. Comment on this issue with your draft Roadmap.
Before Week 4 (Feb 21): Cohort Call (Build for Understanding)
- Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their open canvas.
- Pick an open license for the work you're doing during the program.
- Use your canvas to start writing a README, or landing page, for your project. Link to your README in a comment on this issue.
Week 5 and more
- Submit your project to Mozilla Pulse, add the tag
#mozsprint
This issue is here to help you keep track of work as you start Open Leaders. Please refer to the OL7 Culture Track Syllabus for more detailed weekly notes and assignments past week 4.
I’m working with a core group of open thinkers within my organisation to promote open work through a combination of advocacy and modelling open leadership, so that our colleagues across the whole organisation can see the benefits and begin to figure out how to bring openness into their own work.
I believe that greater openness in our work will improve our relationships with partners, make the tools and solutions we build more relevant, and bring us closer into alignment with the Principles for Digital Development (agreed best-practice principles for applying digital tools in a development context). Treating this culture change journey itself as an open project and applying open leadership principles to it is useful both for us to gain experience working in the open, and for our colleagues to see what it looks like in practice. More fundamentally, however, since this project is about doing a better job of translating values into practice, the only way to get there is by living those values - we can only reach increased openness through increased openness!
I’ve set two personal goals - one to address a weakness (I need to make a point of creating time for communication and information sharing, rather than letting it slip through the cracks when I get busy), and one to get the ball rolling on setting up an open project within my organisation. I’ve also set two organisational goals - one to assemble a core group of evangelists to work with me on this, and one to develop good systems and processes for open working within my team.