248 Articles match "Facilitator","Skills"

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Sunday, March 14, 2010
people to individually speak/write about their own hopes, fears, skills, Help facilitate agreement. Point Father of twins+1 and deep thinker about networks at Interaction Institute for Social Change , Curtis Ogden , has a thoughtful post on the IISC blog that draws some boundaries and installs some furniture in the invisible space between people, the relationships. Curtis draws on anthropology's "moral spaces"--Autonomy, Community, and Divinity (don't be put off by your preconceptions of this word)--and applies them here.
 
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
The Community Roundtable A peer network for community managers and social media practitioners. Home About Membership Who We Are Partners Facilitators News & Mentions Our Mission Community Maturity Model The State of Community Management Roundtable Schedule #TheCRLive Lunches - Boston Blog Community
 
Friday, March 5, 2010
Yesterday I facilited a session for the context masterclass on draagvlakversterking (draagvlakversterking is hard to translate but is something like 'strengthening your supporters base') on the topic of social media. But it is another thing to think through what is needed in terms of facilitation and support and what you really want to achieve with it. Not It was fun. After a presentation we did a card game in small groups talking about dilemmas.
 

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After posting my 4 Meta Skills for Learning Professionals in response to Tony’s July “Big Question,” he commented: I like your meta skills, but … was hoping that you would provide insight into the core skills and knowledge around communities and networks that learning professionals should have? It is hard to let some Tony Karrer disappointment persist. Nancy - I was super excited when I saw that you had posted on the topic.
I’d like to re-frame and talk about the skills we should be cultivating and the technology we MUST demand. It has been a while since I wrote about synchronous online facilitation is a focused way.  Plus, I guess this is a natural follow on to this week’s rants on Skills for Learning Professionals and Knowledge Workers ( Part 1 , part 2 , part 3 ). Alan Levine wrote a deliciously provocative post on last month that I’ve been meaning to comment upon, Five Ways to Run a Deadly Online Seminar . When I read it, my head was bobbing in agreement and recommendations.
I’m long-winded on the topic of new skills for knowledge workers and learning professionals, even if I don’t quite understand what a learning professional is. When Tony Karrer asks for 5 and 60 minute learnings on what new skills do learning professional need, clearly I’m falling well past the 60 minute mark. As I noted in  Part 2 , these are biggies and probably could have fallen It has become clear. Here is part 3.
world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, what new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals? So I want to focus in on three “meta” skills that may be a little harder to quantify, but which I feel are at the root of most of the other skills already mentioned. This month’s “Big Question” from Tony Karrer jolted me out of my sun-gardening-induced blogging lethargy to reply to this question: In a Learning 2.0
Great list of tips for online community leaders, designers, facilitators. ...Tags: Tags: online_facilitation online_community community_manager
Graphic Facilitation Workshops Beyond doing graphic recording myself , I offer two kinds of workshops on the practice of graphic recording and facilitation. One focuses on the use of visuals associated with specific facilitation techniques and group processes, and the other is a simple, hands on introduction to graphic recording, also known as “I CAN DRAW.” Using Well, I guess it is time to walk my talk and declare I CAN DRAW. After doing it on the side, teaching it to others, I realized it was time to declare this part of my practice on my website.
Engaged Learning Home Profile Speaking / Training Podcast E-mail Comment Del.icio.us Digg Reddit Technorati Furl Changing Skills for the Learning Facilitator Aug 5, 2008 Learning 2.0 , collaboration THIS POST asks, “Do you need to be a subject matter expert to run subject-based community?”  8221;  If I were to change it slightly, “Do you need to be a trainer or SME to be a Learning Facilitator in the social learning world?”  8221;  Then I got thinking, what are the skills of this Learning Facilitator
One of the joys of facilitation is the opportunity to work across organisations and communities and observe similarities and differences. And I wondered what some of my friends and colleagues across the globe were noticing about facilitation, particularly the trends, and their hopes for facilitation in 2009. Here’s a wordle made from the responses to facilitation trends. I’ve ve noticed that there are a lot more similarities, especially in the challenges and aspirations, than differences.
Tom Malone , director of MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence , a " We are Smarter than Me " project sponsor, openly admits that the project needed more active facilitation . Tags: 21st Century Skills Collaboration Complexity Connected Business Enterprise 2.0 Facilitation Industry change Innovation Knowledge Facilitation Organizational Networks Organizational Performance Strateg The Knowledge Innvovation Network (of the University of Warwick Business School) recently convened a diversely thought provoking workshop addressing "Knowledge and Prediction Markets".
wide array of skills from technical understanding for making markets perform Quantitative skills + tie to business Tags: 21st Century Skills Attention Conferences Connected Business Enterprise 2.0 Facilitation Industry change Innovation Knowledge Facilitation Organizational Performance Social Tools Trend A small and really smart group of people convened by John Maloney Maloney (at the Gleacher Executive Center in Chicago), on November 6 to explore