This is a template to help you create your own human user guide. The goal of a human user guide is to make working together and collaboration with colleagues easier, faster. The focus for this user guide is on the workplace. As such, many of the questions are geared towards information that would be pertinent to your colleagues.
- Tell us about things that others may not easily discern about you.
- Tell us about your pet peeves. These are things that put you in a bad mood.
- Tell us about those traits that are uniquely yours. How do you like to make decisions? How do you react to conflict?
- Think of some labels people may apply to you. Tell us why those are wrong.
- Tell us what your ideal colleague would look like. These are the people you normally seek out at work.
- Think of the people you avoid at work. What are their characteristics?
- Think of the time when a colleague puts a smile on your face. What did they just do?
- Tell us how you like to help others.
- If you hate emails, tell us. If you prefer a quick zoom over a 15 min write up, tell us.
- Tell us how we can change your mind, once it’s made up.
- Tell us the modes, means, timing, approach, and level of detail you like to employ when giving feedback, and why that's so.
- Tell us the modes, means, timing, approach, and level of detail you like to see others employ when giving you feedback, and why that's so.