Clark Quinn

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Supporting Work

Clark Quinn

I was thinking about this in terms of the ways in which L&D can support this process, and started noting the ways in which we can help besides courses. I broke it up into two different forms of support: direct, and supporting the associated skills.

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2023 ITA Jay Cross Memorial Award: Keeley Sorokti

Clark Quinn

She co-founded the Chicago Online Community Professionals peer-to-peer community of practice and coworking group where KM, L&D, online community, and digital workplace professionals from around the world support each other as they work to transform the way we work, learn, and share knowledge in our organizations.

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Unpacking collaboration and cooperation?

Clark Quinn

Less intently, it may be a ‘show your work’ type of thing, where the organizational culture is supporting sharing, but it’s also an expectation. Or you could be part of a Community of Practice and actively trying to improve something. And I could be totally missing the nuances he’s talking about.

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Will we still need L&D?

Clark Quinn

If, of course, we extend L&D to support informal learning (and I suggest we should ), there’s another opportunity. Until schools also develop effective communication and collaboration skills, L&D would be useful. There’s the further issue of creating a learning culture, too, where people share and cooperate.

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Locus of learning: community, AI, or org?

Clark Quinn

I’ve argued that the community of practice should determine the curriculum to be a member of that community. Similarly, the resources to support progression in the community should come from the community, both within and outside the organization. ” Count me skeptical.

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At the edge

Clark Quinn

Communities of Practice served as a model for this thinking. The solution includes continuous assessment, mobile performance support, and coaching. For an internal self-help solution, Allison Anderson developed a community of practice with events, portal, and a networking platform.

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Community of improvement?

Clark Quinn

In a conversation I had recently, specifically about a community focused on research, I used the term ‘community of improvement’, and was asked how that was different than a community of practice. First, let me say that a community of practice could be, and should be, a community of improvement.

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