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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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70:20:10 Tech

Clark Quinn

In the past, other than courses, there was little at could be done except providing courses on how to coach, and making job aids. For the 20, coaching and mentoring, we can start delivering that wherever needed, via mobile. We can look up information as well, if our portals are well-designed. But that’s changed.

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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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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.

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6 Steps To Creating Learning Ecosystems (And Why You Should Bother)

Learnnovators

More than a fixed environment, the word ‘ecosystem’ implies complex interactions and continued growth which might include: a range of people (managers, peers, mentors, coaches). To embrace informal learning we must empower learners to play a central and proactive part in the process. That’s where learning ecosystems come in.

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What does change(d) look like?

Clark Quinn

Employees would be tightly coupled to their work teams, and more loosely coupled to their communities of practice. Managers would be playing a leadership and mentoring & coaching role rather than a directive role. Similarly social would play a much more central role, arguably our first recourse.

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Re-imagining Work & Learning in a Networked World

ID Reflections

Or will work itself subsume learning enabled by a transformed L&D / facilitators / coaches / mentors and the "right" organizational culture? How do we help organizations see that social and informal learning is not a new and fancy way to learn but an essential requirement in a complex, rapidly changing, and uber connected world?

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