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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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Recommended Reading Summary: A Chapter of “From Practice Fields to Communities of Practice”

Adobe Captivate

Chapter 2: From Practice Fields to Communities of Practice by Sasha Barab and Thomas Duffy (2012). There are a range of opinions and positions within the constructivist and situativity communities regarding even the basic concepts laid out in this text. Here is this month’s chapter summary.

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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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Accelerate Employee Performance Using the Learning Curve: Part 3 Knowledge Formation

Infopro Learning

Timing is Everything Series: Intro , Anxiety , Information Overload , Knowledge Formation, (Part 4 Optimum Performance coming May 31st). This is a period of learning in which establishing communities of practice is especially beneficial. Knowledge Formation. The Student Becomes the Teacher.

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Deep learning and expertise

Clark Quinn

In general, getting information in the head is hard (if we’re doing it right), and we should try to avoid it when possible. Instead, if we follow the intent of the 70:20:10 framework, it’s going to take some initial courses, then coaching, with stretch assignments and feedback, and joining a relevant community of practice, and….

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Eight Leader Habits of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

Communicate clearly and often – Do not assume that in this age of email, cell phones, text messaging, and Web conferencing, people are getting the information they need. In a learning culture, people are continually sharing needed information with the people who need to know. These are eight leader habits of a learning culture.

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Learning from Experimentation

Clark Quinn

We were talking about how to lift the game of Modern Workplace Learning , and each had staked out a position, from human performance consulting to social/informal. Jane talked about how you had to walk the walk: working out loud, personal learning, coaching, etc. Mine (of course :) was at the far end, innovation.

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