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Narrating Your Work - Experimenting Around Knowledge Creation and Sharing

Writer's picture: Jessica GrossmanJessica Grossman

Updated: Sep 14, 2021

DAY 1

I started my day working on Project MARIO reading:

- About the impact of social class on teaming and the impact of teaming structure on those with low social class. https://hbr.org/2021/07/how-our-class-background-affects-the-way-we-collaborate.


- I then read John Powell case studies on Break vs. Bridging https://belonging.berkeley.edu/bridgingandbreaking. I believe that this idea might be fundamental to Anti-Racist Teams and I am excited to see how the MARIO teams team might leverage this work as part of a framework/maturity model.


As I walked home I touched base with a neighbor. We spent time exchanging stories about our kids and soon started discussing knowledge management work. This conversation connected me back to the amazing Jeff Merrell and his class called Creating and Sharing Knowledge. I reread my blog posts and looked back at the various articles we were assigned. I landed on narrating your work article. I thought about how my MARIO Team might use this during this challenging project. How might I use this?


As someone that has shied away about posting on Linkedin about the work I've been doing, I wondered, what am I losing by not engaging my community in bringing my ideas to life? What might it mean for me to start working out loud on a platform like LinkedIn? How much time would microblogging take each day?

Here I am experimenting. This microblog took me ~10 min. Are you interested in learning about my work each day?


 

DAY #2

It was hard to fit this micro blog in today but I realized I couldn't skip when it was ONLY Day 2!


So what did I work on today?

- Project MARIO!

- I spoke to a past coaching client

- put together an interview guide for a consulting project

- took my dog out for a walk on a BEAUTIFUL day listening to Tara Brach The Wise Heart of Radical Acceptance. The words were touching. She describes this idea of the 2nd arrow - the first arrow is our imperfections. the second one is the labeling of that imperfection as "bad". "it's here". Yes that everything is because of circumstance but also Yes to Agency.

- after Tara Brach The Indicator rolled on about water shortage, which quickly increased my anxiety- at this point is climate change actually an ambient stressor....??


Some highlights based on my research:


“Cohesive groups are much more able to come to a consensus and feel confident in solutions than diverse groups, but they are also more likely to be wrong.”


Greg Satell, & Windschitl, C. (2021, May 11). High-Performing Teams Start with a Culture of Shared Values. Harvard Business Review.https://hbr.org/2021/05/high-performing-teams-start-with-a-culture-of-shared-values


That feeling of "we all agree", might mean, "we aren't meeting our potential"! Do we prefer to feel good rather than be better? Is the necessary requirement to good Teaming discomfort, discourse, and repair? How do we let conflict bridge the group rather than fracture the group?


Bridging vs. Breaking

Heydemann, R., & powell, john a. (2020, August 19). On Bridging. Othering & Belonging Institute.https://belonging.berkeley.edu/on-bridging


Breaking


Fracture: A fear-driven response that causes individuals to recoil inward. It's based on ideals of scarcity and threat, in competition for limited resources (scapegoating, othering, divisive rhetoric, suppress critique


Impact of Breaking:

Built on the idea of separateness between individuals and groups. It ends up “diminishing our trust in one another, loosen social connections, and disrupt our ability to cooperate and compromise” (pg.2) Disrupts the ability to boldly address challenges. denies full humanity and mutuality in one another and impacts social norms, ways of participating, and sense of self.


Bridging


Solidarity: Investigate trust, social cohesion, reciprocity, civic bond, collaboration, cooperation, communalism, mutual aid


Bridging helps us turn outward while maintaining a growing inner awareness. It is meant to increase acceptance of diverse people, empathy while giving us greater access to parts of ourselves. Reminds us of our interconnectedness and help us build a large “we” that does not demand assimilation

 

DAY 3

My day consisted of

- taking Nora to the Dr

- interview for a client 360

- 2 casual catchup calls

- caught up on some emails

- Participated in Anti-racist training

- worked out & walked the dog


Spending time reflecting on unlearning the idea that our value is derived by the WHAT we did that day vs. ideals around BEING. How do we reimagine or shift the perspective to be balanced? What does the "being" part of the work look like?


 

DAY 4

MonDAY of Resistance. I was resistant to my need for self-care -- meditation, movement and breath. Resistance to my to-do list. Resistance to my yoga practice. My body did not want to move. My mind did not want to think. But sitting and being still, my mind and body went active, it did not want to be still. Resistance, restlessness and the grind. Yet I got through it all - my to-do list, my self-care practice, yoga, resting. Resistant to the present moment.


 

Day 5

As I took some time over the summer to slow down, I am now navigating the difficulties at speeding back up when you didn't support finding the next opportunity. This has proven challenging as I still have projects in progress but they are stuck in the mud. This creates a grinding feeling to the work. It can exacerbate feelings of disappointment. I am realizing I might need to let go of certain projects, as the background stress along with not seeing a way forward is taking its toll on the present. What do I do with the work that has already been done? How do I move forward with seeing and feeling around for my next opportunities?


Putting together the Anti-Racist Team Chapter

Final Interview for Leadership 360

Connected with a Fellow Mom

Planned out the upcoming week

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