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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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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.

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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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Detailing the Coherent Organization

Clark Quinn

I had, as Harold’s original model provided the basis for, separate groups for Work Teams, Communities of Practice, and Social Networks. As a start, I wanted to go back and look at these elements and see if I could be more systematic about it. Within each were separate elements.

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70:20:10 Tech

Clark Quinn

For the 20, coaching and mentoring, we can start delivering that wherever needed, via mobile. We can also have a richer suite of coaching and mentoring happening through Communities of Practice, where anyone can be a coach or mentor, and be developed in those roles, too.

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Yes, you do have to change

Clark Quinn

Think performance support first, and communities of practice, only resorting to courses as a last result. Tools that make turning Powerpoint presentations into page-turning content aren’t going to fix this, nor are tools that provide prettified drill-and-kill, nor ones that let you host and track courses.

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4 Ways L&D Can Maximize Learning Technology for Hyper-Connected Learners

Instilled

Capture Tacit Knowledge and Build Communities of Practice. With easy access to learning platforms and other technologies that support collaboration , L&D teams can foster social learning and encourage the creation and growth of communities of practice. Facilitate informal learning and mentoring.