Welcome to Nakedize. We provide cutting-edge professional development training and resources for knowledge workers. We only cover essential topics and we only provide short courses and concise, easy-to-read texts.
Is your work worthwhile business or costly busyness?
| Knowledge Worker Red Zone | Knowledge Worker Green Zone | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | They work busily without questioning value or cost. | They clarify and prioritize the value of their work before expending their finite resources. |
| 2. | They do what they’ve always done and their contributions look very similar to the status quo. | They solve problems and realise opportunities by collaboratively designing creative solutions that suit the context and leverage the system. They aim for sophisticated simplicity and do not reinvent wheels. |
| 3. | They don’t do change management. | They design the behaviour change that must occur for their solutions to be enacted. |
| 4. | They write how they’ve always written and their documents look like a thousand others. | They design and deliver whatever information is needed for their solutions to be enacted. |
| = COSTLY BUSYNESS | = WORTHWHILE BUSINESS |
Nakedize’s business is to help busy office workers to slow down and get on with cost-effectively solving problems and realizing opportunities.
To be useful and cost-effective, knowledge workers need to complete this circle
Nakedize Optimal Knowledge Working Framework
…so Nakedize teaches the four steps
Recommended reading | Course book | Talk
| Okw process step | Courses (one day unless noted) | Books | Consultancy | Talks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Illuminate Value | Introduction to Optimal Knowledge Working1 | Optimal Goals | ||
| 2. Design Solutions | Part 1 (Systems) of Strategy Essentials | |||
| Part 1 (Thinking) of Skills Essentials | ||||
| 3. Design Change | Part 2 (Transformation) of Strategy Essentials | Optimal Change | ||
| Part 2 (Change) of Skills Essentials | Optimal Change | |||
| 4. Design Information | Part 3 (Information) of Strategy Essentials | Optimal Information | ||
| Part 3 (Writing) of Skills Essentials or Writing Essentials2 | Optimal Information | |||
| Improving Document Production2 | Optimal Information |
1. Half day course. Included in the full-day Improving Document Production course.2. These courses are also delivered as public and private courses through Victoria University Professional and Executive Development.