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Alternative workstyles can be a way to attract, retain, and motivate talented employees
"Enlightening, enjoyable, and extremely practical . . . offers real clarity about what is wrong with the way most companies work, plus exact directions on how to fix each and every office foolishness. Do what Froggatt says and watch your employees productivity rise."--Scott Shuster, BusinessWeek
Corporate and individual resistance to new ways of working are often imbedded within a company's culture--and can stifle change and hinder productivity. Organized around eight simple yet critical principles of the new workplace, Work Naked challenges long-held beliefs about the appropriate time, place, look, and feel of productivity in the knowledge era, showing how a wealth of hidden potential can be released by giving employees the freedom to work how, when, and where they want. Cindy Froggatt suggests workplace options that can help balance work and personal life, and helps managers address the needs of the many knowledge workers who require a greater degree of autonomy to perform, create, and innovate. She presents numerous examples of companies of different sizes and types that have instituted telework or alternative programs--and clearly explains the benefits and pitfalls of implementing them.
Cindy Froggatt (New York, NY) is Principal of Froggatt Consulting, whose clients include Compaq, Mercedes-Benz, Capital One, and Nova Corporation.
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A compendium of virtual work advice, a little one-sided.......2003-10-30
Do you work naked? If you're one of the millions of people who work away from the corporate office much of the time you might. Or you might follow a strict routine of showering and dressing first thing. As Cynthia Froggatt argues in detail, non-traditional working practices vary tremendously - but eight principles can help employees and managers alike shape those practices for improved satisfaction *and* effectiveness. Making the change from traditional, regimented working practices to "virtual workplace" practices can be difficult but the rewards can be great. Froggatt's principles cover the issues thoroughly.
To ensure that working away from the office (whether at home, a coffee shop or library, a client's office, or elsewhere) increases productivity without causing anxiety on either side, this book recommends these guidelines:
Initiative: Overcoming the fear of change and becoming change agents - Froggatt provides a checklist for uncovering obstacles to peak performance in the virtual workplace.
Trust: Achieving confidence in the management-employee relationship - this requires doing away with the layers of outdated performance measures. A real concern is the "input bias" according to which managers evaluate workers more highly based on what they see rather than on what is actually produced.
Joy: Creating a work environment that is enjoyable in atmosphere and attitude. Even if your company is not considering allowing or encouraging virtual work, the points discussed under this principle could help improve your workforce's motivation and commitment.
Individuality - Creating a culture of autonomy creativity versus conformity. Froggatt outlines three types of solo workstyle, effectively demolishing the idea that virtual work equals working in a home office.
Equality - Flattening the hierarchy so cooperation and teamwork can flourish. Perhaps the principle least specifically tied to virtual work, this one promotes the removal of all forms of hierarchy which, ironically, may be less influential for those who aren't often in the office to experience them.
Dialogue - Providing an honest communication forum to inspire and inform. Even more than for regular workplaces, virtual work relies on open, honest communication.
Connectivity - Optimize technological advantages, including employee locale. This principle is all about equipping your virtual workforce to enable people to take full, productive advantage of increased flexibility.
Workplace Options - Provide comfort /creative setting for all work locations. Here, Froggatt goes some way to redressing the emphasis on virtual work by stating that both the physical infrastructure of workplaces and the technological infrastructure of online work are crucial to the emerging environment of virtual work. Workplaces of the future are being shaped by six trends, argues Froggatt: Access will become more important than ownership; People will commute less but travel more; Individual choice takes precedence over management control; No more captive audience at "the office"; More attention to workplaces in the home; Blurring of leisure and work.
Drawing on companies such as Cisco Systems, Autodesk, Verifone, The Promar Group, and SAS Institute, Froggatt paints a diverse picture of the ways that companies can help balance work and personal life while enabling knowledge workers with differing work styles to become more productive. The illustrations of each principle help to make clear how you might go about implementing the abstractions. The downside - for some readers - is an absence of real theoretical underpinnings and little attention to the validity of studies cited to support the author's contentions.
For example, on p.40, a Nortel employee survey is used to show higher employee satisfaction of teleworkers as compared to the overall Nortel population. We are given no reason to believe that this is a fair or useful comparison. Perhaps the types of workers made virtual were more satisfied to begin with - a before and after survey would be more revealing. Readers may also find that in the author's eagerness to establish the viability and attractiveness of virtual work, the real challenges of virtual work may sometimes have been assumed away too quickly. On the whole, however, Work Naked provides plenty of ideas for those interested in exploring new working styles for 21st century knowledge workers.
WORK FLEXIBILITY.......2003-01-25
The virtual office/organizations have been a concept that has received a lot of attention in the last decade but has had a hard time surfacing as a viable option. According to the author, the reason for this being businesses and management insist on using the same management principles in a changing environment. This leads to frustration and failure of an idea that can be fruitful to so many.
Work Naked simply implies that as individuals, your employees have different personalities and different work methods and to be a successful manager you must take the differences and make them work for you. This can include allowing your employees to work different hours, flexible shifts and from home or a combination of all of these options. To achieve success Froggatt proposes eight principles that must be addressed.
1. Initiative-Overcoming the fear of change and becoming change agents.
2. Trust-Achieving confidence in the management-employee relationship.
3. Joy-Creating a work environment that is enjoyable in atmosphere and attitude.
4. Individuality-Creating a culture of autonomy creativity versus conformity.
5. Equality-Flattening the hierarchy so cooperation and teamwork can flourish.
6. Dialogue-Providing an honest communication forum to inspire and inform.
7. Connectivity-Optimize technological advantages, including employee locale.
8. Workplace Options-Provide comfort /creative setting for all work locations.
I found this book to be a very pokerfaced voice for change. Each principal demands respect from all levels of management and staff.
The eight principles taught in the book can be useful to any work environment, even if virtual workplaces are not incorporated. The most important theme in the book is flexibility. The principles are based in a human resources frame as the goal is employee empowerment. However, with this empowerment or lack thereof can bring success or failure to the businesses.
Most organizations have traditionally been based in a brick and mortar setting where the organization as a structure is valued above all. I see the organizations of tomorrow to be more information centric or knowledge based. Before reading this book, I had not given careful consideration to the implications of this statement. Now I can see that if we wanted to, most service related organization could venture into the virtual workplace if proper facilities like phone, Internet and computers available.
After reading this book I actually made a few informal interviews with colleagues and asked them if they honesty needed to be at work for forty or more hours a week. Most said they spent their time working on proposals and documents on their computers, answering e-mail reference questions and other work that did not require being physically present. I then took it a step farther and asked if they would be open to a FLEXIBLE schedule in which they worked 8 hours shifts on the desk but only worked 2 OR 3 days physically at office with the rest being at home. After a few strange looks and careful consideration most staff said that it would help them be with their kids more, schedule doctor appointments and avoid the commute.
As Work Naked shows, you can accomplish wonders if you provide the initiative, the training and the supports to your staff. Work Naked is not steeped in theory. It is not a book that scholars will debate for years to come, but it will provide interesting conversation. For each principle listed there are case studies of real company situations to show an example of why the principle is important. At the end of the book there are resources listed to help companies get more information on making the switch. Cynthia Foggart believes in taking the bull by the horns and getting the job done. The only fault I have with this is a fairly negative attitude to the workplace environment as a whole. There are some bonuses to corporate culture and there are some individuals that are at their best in that environment. Their needs should not be shunned. Also, the book does not delve into any of the new issues that might come up in a virtual work environment. Managers need to find another book to help them resolve those issues. In a nutshell the book is good read but a lot of cons of a virtual organization could have been presented...
Let Go! Create a New Kind of Workplace.......2002-11-04
Let go. That's the message to corporate leaders who have decades of reinforcement that their job is to control the people who work for them. There's a new game in town-a new way of operating that releases creativity, boosts productivity, and drives more profit to the bottom line.
This new approach involves stripping away the old ways of thinking about managing. It means removing policies that inhibit employees in their self-driven initiatives to do truly amazing things. The new approach suggests that people can work from anywhere without the traditional trappings to achieve results far beyond current reality. In a phrase, the new approach allows people to work naked, without constraints. Froggatt, a consultant specializing in aligning workplace strategies with business plans, describes the process as "shedding the layers" of control, overwork, conformity, hierarchy, poor communication, geography, and unproductive work environments to release the bonds.
While explaining the problems, Froggatt presents the principles that can empower a leadership team to change the way their company does business. Eight simple principles: initiative, trust, joy, individuality, equality, dialogue, connectivity, and workplace options. Some leaders will read this book and stick it on a shelf to gather dust. Others will really "get" the message and will transform their organizations. With the content of this book, and the way it is presented, transformation will not be that difficult . . . for the enlightened leaders. Unfortunately, we have far too few leaders who fit into that category. Hopefully this book will win a few more converts.
Do not expect policies, contracts, procedures, systems, and all that sort of garbage in these pages. No, this book is about people and principles. The pages are rich with concrete examples that will be an inspiration to readers who are inclined to adhere to the concept of working naked. Checklists, bullet-point lists, charts, diagrams, and plenty of chapter subheads make this book superbly readable. Adding to the value of "Work Naked" is an astonishingly detailed 13-page index and a index-like list of the companies profiled in the book. Over ten pages of chapter notes await you at the end of the book and a concise summary awaits you at the end of each chapter.
I read this book with a high degree of interest, from my perspective as co-author of "Impending Crisis: Too Many Jobs, Too Few People." Our book talks about the coming severe labor shortage and how many companies are headed for extinction. "Work Naked" supplies the treasure map for employers who want to avoid extinction and thrive instead.
Highly recommended!
Insightful!.......2002-01-30
Cynthia C. Froggatt tackles the pros and cons (mostly pros) of having your employees work at a location away from the office, particularly in their homes. She includes plenty of successful examples, an eight-step blueprint for making it work, and addresses the usual corporate reservations about the whole topic. You'll find a refreshing dash of wit on every page, which one would expect from an author whose book title is, Work Naked. We [...] recommend this book to anyone interested in mechanics of the virtual company.
To maximize the power of virtual workshop.......2001-10-26
Virtual workshop could bring lots of benefits to the company. However, many companies failed to run the virtual workplace well.
This book tells us there are eight essential principles for peak performance in the virtual workplace.
With the concise wording and clear structure, this book is easy to follow and understand. Every chapter has a brief summary and responsibilities for both leaders and employees that makes the book more practical. Moreover, this book also provides plenty of real examples.
As virtual workplace is essential to future business development, this book can help to maximize the power of virtual workplace.
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Wonderful, Wearable Wire is a new book of 180 wire working designs made on the WigJig Olympus Transparent Jig. This 172-page book has 5 chapters - "Chains, Links and Clasps", "Pendants and Earrings", "Yokes and Pins", "Suncatchers and Holiday Ornaments", and "Wire Working Tips & Hints". It's so simple to duplicate the book's designs because of the transparency of the WigJig Olympus. Just place the jig on top of the patterns, place the pegs and form the designs. The book has many great ideas for wire designs, that it is a great resource, even without the WigJig Olympus.
The "Wire Working Tips & Hints" chapter is filled with 28 pages of wire working techniques. We show you how to make wire cages, how to wire wrap beads, how to make pins, coils, scrolls, and much more. We have also included color photographs throughout the book that depict many of the book's designs in a variety of wire types, including sterling silver, gold-filled and colored "Artistic Wire.
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Wonderful but not really wearable.......2002-01-14
The book has lots of good design. Unfortunately, as an adult, I do not think I would wear the work instructed in the book.
Wonderful, Wearable Wire.......2001-08-19
The reviewer above obviously didn't even read the book, as it gives (in several places) the website and 800 number of where to order the jig used. Also, the Wig Jig is not a mass production jig, it and the designs in the book are intended for personal use.
The book is an excellent start for beginners - It gives specific step by step instructions. The jig is not required for any of the designs, but it does make things easier & quicker.
Specialized workbook.......2000-10-19
An interesting little workbook, designed to be used with something called the Olympus WigJig, a transparent wire bending jig. If, like me, you have never heard of this device, the book gives no information on how to obtain or make the jig. Fortunately, the designs can be made without the jig. The designs, while interesting, are copyrighted. Why does the author give us copyrighted designs for a mass-production jig? The book is strictly for beginners who are interested in simple wire bending without using soldering or any advanced techniques.
Instructions and directions.......2000-09-21
If you just bought wire-bending equipment and need help, buy this book. It's perfect for the novice-- slide your clear Wig-Jig Olympus over the template, put in the pegs and copy the designs. The book contains interesting and important wire-bending start-up information, too. More advanced? Lots of information and projects for you, too. The book is divided into sections by project (ornaments, pendants, links and clasps)with easy and challenging projects in each section. The book is wirebound, so you can fold it flat open. One pattern per page keeps you focused, not flipping pages. Some of the pages are busy with information, and require some patience to understand. One important page not to miss: the one that says patterns are all under current copyright, and are for personal use only.
Wonderful, Wearable Wire.......1999-12-22
This is a very good book for the novice to advanced wire jewelry artist. Using the Olympus Wigjig is very easy. You just place your wigjig over the template in the book, add the pegs and wrap wire in the directions of the arrows. Success is had by all with this solderless process! Makes great wire ornaments. You will truly love it for making jewelry to wear and give.
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