Silence and management - part 10

…text about Silence in organization continues - this is part 10.

4.5       New work

 

 

 

4.5.1          New way of working is still in its infancy

In every organization and actually in every situation there is also a lot of silence. This is because there is always a lot that could be shared or said but what remains unsaid and unshared. As we have talked in previous texts it is simply impossible to share everything, apparently sharing everything would stop everything.  Whereas sometimes fear in its different forms may cause that something is not said and silence prevails. Again there are situations and moments of frustration when someone has lost her/his enthusiasm to speak and share.

In addition to these three sources of silence, I wish to add one quarter to the silence pie. That part comes with the name “new work”. 

New work is something which does not exist yet, it is just developing.  The hallmark of new work is professional sharing. This means a mode of working where we think all the time what to share to others.  This means that we learn to see professional sharing as an integral and elementary part of our work. 

I use here the term professional sharing with a purpose. The word professional means that we do the sharing as intelligently and wisely as we can. So we are willing to continuously learn to understand better what to share, to whom to share and how to do the sharing. In professional sharing the goal is to increase to success potential of our organization.

It is proposed here that when the “new work” develops to its full potential it will mean a lot more sharing than what happens today. When looked from the perspective of a new work there is a lot of silence everywhere.  In order to illustrate this point it could be said that from the point of view of “new work” we may occupy the same building but we do not really work together. Hence the level of sharing to which we are used to today is actually full of silence.