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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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At the edge

Clark Quinn

Communities of Practice served as a model for this thinking. Instead of courses, the solution connected those with demonstrable skills to mentor those who could benefit. For an internal self-help solution, Allison Anderson developed a community of practice with events, portal, and a networking platform.

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The ‘Mastermind’ effect: Leveraging resources to support upskilling and reskilling for the future

CLO Magazine

There are numerous ways to use internal resources to support learning, including coaching, mentoring, apprenticing, job shadowing and engaging in trial or stretch projects. Leveraging internal resources for skill building is one of the most important tools in the learning and development leader’s arsenal.

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Do your leaders have the skills needed to successfully manage teams remotely?

Avilar

CLO Magazine shared these anticipated benefits of continued remote work, from McLean & Company’s 2022 HR Trends report: flexibility in hours that employees are available to work, an expanded hiring pool, improved employee retention, lower facility costs, and increased employee engagement and productivity. Communities of practice.

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John Seeley Brown Keynote at #ASTD2013

Learning Visions

Building a community of peer-mentors. Using simple social software to create a network of practice or a community of practice. The CLO will need to become the Chief Organizational Architecture. How can you make Mentorship and Reverse Mentorship work together? For this to work: We must thing about mentorship.

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A Vital View on Learning

CLO Magazine

While moving up the ranks at McCain, she attended the CLO executive doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania, where she first met Steier in 2007. “We McNevin joined the program to advance her career as a global CLO while Steier wanted to understand how to create a learning organization. The two of them immediately bonded.

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What’s in Your Toolbox?

CLO Magazine

On-the-job experiences, mentoring, discussions and networking with other professionals are traditional, low-tech forms of instruction and are considered among the most important forms of informal learning. Similar to tweeting, learning will adapt to create small yet relevant learning bursts,” predicts one CLO.

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