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Empowering future leaders through communities of practice

CLO Magazine

There’s an underutilized resource at your company that can supercharge your leadership development efforts: Communities of practice. Every successful community has emerging leaders at its core. When your sellers set up a chat to discuss tips on closing difficult sales, they have formed a community of practice.

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Community of Practice and the TorranceLearning Download

The Performance Improvement Blog

One of many methods of organizational learning is a “community of practice”. TorranceLearning has created a kind of community of practice that they call the Torrance Download. This is a terrific model for a community of practice, either for people from different organizations or for people internal to one organization.

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Ritual

Clark Quinn

From the design purpose, I’d suggest it’s about agreeing to be a member of a community of practice; to undertake certain actions when appropriate, and to uphold certain values. Still, thinking about it in this way does suggest the utility in developing deeply held beliefs and appropriately practiced behaviors.

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Situated Cognition In eLearning: What eLearning Professionals Should Know

TalentLMS

Cognitive Apprenticeships and communities of practice also go hand-in-hand with situated cognition. Below you’ll find 4 best practices and 5 tips that can help you integrate situated cognition into your eLearning strategy. 4 Situated Cognition Best Practices. Foster learning communities of practice.

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Detailing the Coherent Organization

Clark Quinn

I had, as Harold’s original model provided the basis for, separate groups for Work Teams, Communities of Practice, and Social Networks. What emerged is a characterization of several different areas within which behaviors fall, which is useful because then I can look for missing (or redundant) elements.

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Lurking is Not a Static State

ID Reflections

I recalled some of the posts and articles I had read in the past about lurking as a behavior in online communities and what it indicated, and decided to dig through those again. Some of the research material points to a cycle of participation that I have mentioned later. Etienne Wenger, Nancy White and John D.

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Piecing together collaboration and cooperation

Clark Quinn

In an insightful piece , Harold Jarche puts together how collaboration and cooperation are needed to make organizations work ‘smarter’, integrating workgroups with the broader social network by using communities of practice as the intermediary.