Moving forward, we are making significant improvements upon the ways team members can log their tensions.
The Tensions app becomes Inbox. Inspired by David Allen's productivity methodology Getting Things Done, Inbox is your new repository to write down all your tensions so you can quickly get them out of your head and decide later what to do with them. It's convenient, quick and simple!
This new update provides you with the right tool to be more productive.
From Inbox:
Capture any tension that you need to address. It can be anything from opportunity for improvement to an endemic challenge that needs attention within the organization.
Process what you've captured into clear and concrete action steps.
If you know how to process your tensions, you can quickly turn tensions into Actions, Projects or OKRs. or just import them as agenda items to the next meeting.
If you want to discuss a tension with your team, you can simply bring the tension to the next meeting and turn it into an agenda item.
Quick tip ⭐
Review your tensions, frequently look over and revise your lists to make sure everything gets processed in time.
Create and process a tension from Inbox
To add a tension, go to Inbox in the blue navigation bar:
Click on Add a tension
Type in a Name and Description
Assign a circle (optional). Note that once a tension is linked to a circle, it can be imported only in a meeting of that circle.
Add a document (if necessary)
Your tension is now created. A tension is private by defaut until you decide to process it. Tensions can be held in your inbox indefinitely until you process them. There are different ways to process a tension:
Asynchronously: a tension can become an Action, a Project or an OKR.
In meetings: a tension can become an agenda item to discuss with your circle members.
Asynchronously
If you already know what to do with your tension, you may process it directly and turn it into a project, an action or an OKR.
Note: Once a tension is processed as an Action, Project or OKR, you can find each item in their corresponding app in the blue navigation bar (Projects, Actions, and OKRs).
In meetings
If you're not certain which accountability the tension falls under, you may also bring the tension to a Meeting and simply let the process take care of it.
Once a tension is uploaded to the meeting, it becomes accessible by others. All circle members have access to the tension in the meeting app upon clicking on the scheduled meeting. When the meeting is open, it will show up in the agenda to make sure your discuss the point.
Working with Holacracy
The GTD methodology is fairly connected to Holacracy practice, which requires Holacracy practitioners to track projects and next actions.
There is the same event: a gap between reality and an ideal situation to come. In GTD, these are all the things that grab your attention, that you would like to do or that you know you should do; in Holacracy, it's all the issues or ideas that you encounter or that cross your mind. In both cases, it is a question of reducing this gap, generally in favor of the expected or by deciding in conscience that the current is sufficient for the moment.
Regularly, the GTD practitioner will empty his inbox to identify what needs to be done, organize, defer, delegate or postpone. In Holacracy, the members of the Circle attend the Tactical meeting: tensions are discussed, solutions are found.
With this update, each tension can be in your Inbox just for you to process or it can be turned into an Action, Project, OKR or Agenda items to bring to a meeting.
It makes the process of capturing and processing tensions more efficient and improves productivity.