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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeart Radio.
Good morning. This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.
Today's tip is to write your own operating manual.
Letting people know about how you work can make you more productive and hopefully limit the chances for misunderstandings.
Today's tip, like some others this week, comes from Amanda Imber's new book Time Wise.
In this book, Amanda shares tips from lots of successful people on how they work and make time feel more fun.
One of the tips is called, why you need a one-page operating manual.
Amanda interviewed Darren Murf of GitLab.
Murf noted that he had created his own one-page document, which is, as Murf puts it, an operating manual of how you can quickly get up to speed about working with me.
It explains how I like to be communicated with, what I hope to learn in working with you, and what you need to know about me.
Things like personality type, my working style, and when I generally prefer to work.
Amanda notes that reading this manual only takes a couple of minutes.
But you'll learn more in those few minutes than it would normally take in the two weeks or longer that it takes to understand a coworker that you are meeting for the first time.
I think this is a wise idea.
It's just efficient. Now, I know that it might seem a little presumptuous to create such a manual.
I mean, perhaps the idea comes across like those artist contracts, where they specify the kinds of candy in the green room.
I mean, really? I know I am a generally agreeable person, and I am happy to work with agreeable people.
And I hope that as fellow human beings, we can figure each other out.
However, if you start to think this through, you can realize that there is a ton of knowledge that you learn in time, but that it would be better to know at the beginning.
For instance, maybe you like to work at 10 pm.
You certainly don't expect anyone else to work at 10 pm, so people shouldn't think anything about your late hours, or they shouldn't wait up for your emails.
That's good to know. Or maybe you don't eat meat.
Most agreeable coworkers would like to know that before they propose a team kick off dinner at a steak restaurant.
Since I work for myself, I have all sorts of other quirks that I am sure drive people crazy for the first week or two, until they figure them out.
For instance, I don't use an electronic calendar.
I love my paper calendar, and I'm probably not changing now.
You can send me an electronic calendar invite, but if you are waiting for an acceptance to actually put it on your calendar, you might need to wait for a while, since it's not a standard part of my workflow.
In any case, you might think this through and write something down.
If you are the sort of person that lots of people seek out to work with, it might be helpful to post this somewhere publicly, like your website or your LinkedIn profile.
If you have a more standard job where you just work with new coworkers from time to time, propose that everyone creates such a document before your first team meeting.
So you can all read up on each other.
Who knows? You might find out that you and one of your colleagues are equally in love with the Oxford comma.
Now you can bond over that.
And if nothing else, creating this document will boost your own self-knowledge.
Sometimes, we just work in certain ways because we always have.
We don't think about it.
Committing these approaches to paper lets us think about them and think about why we do them.
Knowing yourself is just always a good thing.
In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening. And here is to making the most of our time.
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Thanks so much, I look forward to staying in touch.
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