{"id":103,"date":"2015-05-11T14:03:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T14:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nwc.co\/3\/?p=103"},"modified":"2015-05-11T14:03:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T14:03:54","slug":"tours-of-duty-for-coworking-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nwc.co\/3\/tours-of-duty-for-coworking-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Tours of Duty for coworking communities"},"content":{"rendered":"

When two people I trust deeply (Eric<\/a> and Amy<\/a>) nearly simultaneously introduced\u00a0me to The Alliance<\/a>, I knew I had to read it.<\/p>\n

Among other things, it advocates for a new employer-employee dynamic that emphasizes specific, finite, mission-based efforts that are designed to benefit both employee and employer. Toward the end these “Tours of Duty,” both parties meet to review and decide what to do next.<\/p>\n

This approach stands in stark contrast to the traditional “employee for life” conceit that, the authors argue, is often dishonest for both parties.<\/p>\n

While I’m all for this for not just my employee and myself, I can’t help but want to see how peers could implement a similar model in a coworking community. We already do this in a way with\u00a0Cotivation, but perhaps this could be taken further?<\/p>\n

Let’s say, for instance, that we implement regular periods for recruiting new members, onboarding them as a group, and giving them the opportunity to set and share goals in a communal setting.<\/p>\n

New Active Coworking programs could be set up to match the needs of the new groups, for example, and then re-evaluated at the end of the Tour. While individuals would be free to opt out at any time, having a coordinated ideal start and end time gives people a default structure to plan around. (It also makes things easier to administer.)<\/p>\n

Looking forward to the next version of New Work City, the idea of structuring many of our interactions around specific, finite, well-defined Tours seems like a promising direction to go.<\/p>\n

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When two people I trust deeply (Eric and Amy) nearly simultaneously introduced\u00a0me to The Alliance, I knew I had to read it. Among other things, it advocates for a new employer-employee dynamic that emphasizes specific, finite, mission-based efforts that are designed to benefit both employee and employer. Toward the end these “Tours of Duty,” both parties meet to review and … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwc.co\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwc.co\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwc.co\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwc.co\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwc.co\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nwc.co\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/nwc.co\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwc.co\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwc.co\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwc.co\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwc.co\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}