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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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The Case for Communities of Practice

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

In his 2001 book Kitchen Confidential , Anthony Bourdain describes how he became a professional chef and how he continues to support the community of professional chefs. Chefs are a community of like-minded individuals who identify with one another, advance the practice of their profession and help new entrants join the industry.

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Creating Tomorrow’s Life Sciences Sales Leaders: 3 Strategies

PDG

Key areas like these require more attention within a commercial leadership development program than ever before. But a program of this nature isn’t a series of events. It needs to be developed as a process to cultivate and nurture individuals so they can practice and apply their skills freely. And it needs to be fun, too!

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How Does Implementing Formal Measures to Ensure Continuous Improvement Build Organisational Capability?

Acorn Labs

Formal measures for continuous improvement include implementing communities of practice (a group of people with a shared concern or interest), training evaluation, training assessments and post-training tracking. Continuous improvement is a persistent endeavour to bring improvements across the whole organisation. You see the problem?

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LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS THAT WORK

PDG

We learned leadership informally, through participation in sports teams, youth organizations, or community groups. It certainly doesn’t help that a lot of leadership programs are a parade of models, disjointed, without context. Effective leadership programs have a strong experiential component, the more, the better.

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9 Strategies to Make Your Peer Learning Program Thrive

CLO Magazine

If you’re sponsoring or developing a peer learning program, you know that professional communities of practice are a cost-effective way to leverage the collective wisdom and experience of a group of leaders with similar roles, challenges or interest areas. Align around the peer learning community’s purpose.

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How Does Implementing Formal Measures to Ensure Continuous Improvement Build Organisational Capability?

Acorn Labs

This is commonly done through formal measures like training evaluation, training assessments, post-training enablement and communities of practice (i.e. That’s without mentioning poor strategy execution, if you can affect any at all, negating the purpose of a capability program.

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