A quick posting to record some thoughts on this extremeely useful and personaly satisfying day.
The OU hosted an event organised by the South East Leadership Academy yesterday on the value of Communities of Practice and Leadership. The day was split it two halfs; the morning for presentations from Ettiene Wengner, Nigel Paine and the team at LEAD in Lancaster University. The afternoon we broke into groups and discussed what CoPs meant to us, the issues and challenges surrounding their growth, adoption and so on. We returned for a panel session in which the breakout group questions were put to the panellists. All very good stuff and I enjoyed it enormously!
Met some very interesting and knowledgeable individuals, but the highlight for me was meeting Ettiene! And, he asked me to share my own story with the rest of the audience during the panel session! Don't laugh but I feel like the first guy picked for the footy team! In your face, £$%$£ [name removed for privacy reasons] –
Very interesting discussion on the nature of tension, conflict and the management of personal agenda in horizontal communities along with some practical insight and advice. A good day.
Have to go and prepare my own big day for Emerald now. Dr david Lamon will be here soon to help me facilitate a company wide conversaiton on the value, indeed the very idea of, community and what it means to su and to Publishers. I'm looking forward to it very much.
