🖤 Welcome to The Revolution

Greetings Pioneers!

Welcome to the second edition of Open Org’s newsletter. If you’re reading this then three things are probably true:

1. You are cool af.

2. You give a shit about creating a better world of work and not just talking about it.

3. You believe transparency generates trust.

👉️ Quick reminder of what’s in the box?

Glad you asked! This is our regular drop of tips, resources, templates and insights from our small but mighty community of amazing People People trailblazing workplace transparency in the pursuit of a less opaque, less busted world of work.

Ready to dive in?

Let’s go.

Free shit to make your life easier: The Open Policy Index

Adam and I started to notice a repeating question reverberating across the many excellent People people slack groups and communities that we’re part of.

“Has anyone got a policy for…” 

So we put on our thinking caps and figured it might be a cool community-driven project to invite everyone to contribute to a spicy Airtable database and share the love.

The result? 300+ policies and counting!

Bookmark it here 👇️ 

Big thanks to the folks at Unleashed for leading the charge on give-back efforts.

If you want to join in and add one of your policies, then please do here. Feels good to give back.

💡 Transparency Tip

💡 It’s important for everyone to know what transparency means to you, what you do and don’t share by default and why it’s important to your business.

Gitlab (ofc!) have a fantastic example and we’ve also got you covered with a Notion template (ofc!) below 👇️ 

📚️ Interesting Internet

1. Book: Gamestorming is pretty cool if you’re looking to spice up your EX facilitations

2. Template: Check out the transparent policy template we made for you in Notion.

3. Post: Adam goes to war with vague benefits.

4. Framework: I recommend Gustavo Razzetti’s incredible culture design canvass at least once a week. Check it out.

5. Tool: Valuebeat is a culture analysis and decision-making platform that looks ace.

🎉 Transparency Shoutouts

Let's give a huge hand to these heroic pioneers who are pushing the bar higher when it comes to transparency:

Emily Sivey at Bippit shared some great learnings and results from their recent hiring journey. 🎉 Read more

The team at cal.com open-source opportunities in their codebase as paid ‘bounties’ as a way to connect with folks who might be interested in joining. Love to see it. 🎉 Read more

Join the Transparency Revolution

Looking to roll up your sleeves and go deep on transparency? [OO-PL] 'Open Org People Leaders Cohort' is kicking off on September 12! We have 2 spaces left!

More details on openorg.fyi or if you’d like a chat with Adam and me to learn more, our cal is here.

p.s we’re just starting up so if you know other People People whose jam this might be, please forward it on/share in Slack.

With 🧊 & 🔥 

John

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