Work design and templates
Design where people will contribute, how their contributions will relate and what the work should produce. Adjust freedom and guidance to the job.
Headings such as “Problems”, “Options” and “Reasons” need not remain coloured boxes. A designer can declare the kind of contribution an area is intended to hold, giving the same layout a consistent meaning across different pieces of work.
A free-form visual template, a structure with behaviour and a work design with declared meaning represent different levels of depth. Not every job needs the most constrained structure.
The objects an area accepts, contribution counts, connections between areas and transitions between phases can be part of the design. Rules can be binding, advisory or turned off.
For a decision workshop, you might first collect options, then evaluate them against criteria. In another activity, you might leave room for free expression. The design should explain what is expected without creating unnecessary data-entry work.
The Room owner or Designer prepares and publishes a work design, then places it from the Room library. Participants contribute to an instance of that definition.
The version of the design and the content produced in a session remain separate. Improving the template does not silently rewrite the output of earlier work.
EXAMPLE ACTIVITY
A consultant uses a similar option-evaluation activity with different teams.
Create areas for the question, options, criteria and reasons.
Specify which contributions will connect and in which phase they will be produced.
Set aside a flexible area beside the structured areas for unanticipated views.
Place the design from the library into new work; each team develops its own context and outputs.
A repeatable way of working with separate, meaningful contributions belonging to each session.
WHAT REMAINS?
Working areas with defined roles
Rules and phases adjusted to the job
A design that can be reused from the library
YOUR QUESTIONS
No. Xohre’s approach supports different depths, from a free visual template to more guided work.
The source of meaning is distinct. A design declaration, personal interpretation and a system suggestion are considered with their own supporting basis.
Bring ideas, records and decisions into the same context.
