The other night over pastries and slowly delivered tea in Seattle, David Anderson and I spent a good deal of time discussing personal kanban.  I said that I had been using them for a while, and didn’t think it was a big deal.  David was adamant that it was in fact a big deal, because the nature of personal tasks is much more complex than team tasks.

This probably should have been one of the meta skills because it goes to scanning (what am I looking for), filtering (what has value), synthesizing (what does this mean), connecting (who might use this?) , reflecting (did this work?) think I’ll continue in a part 3 tomorrow to include Community Leadership, Network Weaving and Reflective Practice. It is hard to let some Tony Karrer disappointment persist. After posting my 4 Meta Skills for Learning Professionals in response to Tony’s July “Big Question,” he commented:

After a couple of days social reporting at a conference in Lisbon, my co-reporters Bev Trayner , Josien Kapma and I decided we should turn the camera on ourselves and reflect on what worked well - or didn’t. You’ll hear at the end of our reflections a reminder from Josien that we should not just rely on video, but also do good blog posts. As I showed here earlier , we have been reporting on the Powering a New Future conference, which is celebrating and showcasing eight years of European Social Funding for innovation projects through the EQUAL programme. Our

When I was asked to facilitate a discussion on reflective learning and weblogs at the workshop on Informal learning and the use of social software in veterinary medicine I hesitated: while reflective learning is part of my practice, at the moment I’m far from the theories about it or from facilitating reflective learning in educational settings. Well, at the end it worked – we didn’t go that far into the reflective learning itself, but talked about uses of weblogs for learning of students and practitioners. [This post was in drafts for a while; posted on the actual date of the workshop, so the participants can find it.]

At the past two Art of Hosting trainings (Bowen Island in September, and Springfield, IL earlier this week) we used that practice to reflect and ground the experience of the Art of Hosting and to set up a way of diving into what comes next, as a way of leaving the deep space of learning together and re-entering the world.   The whole things takes 25 minutes minimum, if you give people a minute or so for reflection and writing.  I Over the past few years, I have enjoyed watching Otto Scharmer’s practice develop as he moves between the world of high level systems thinking and grounded facilitation practice.  The

When I read  Dan Oestreich ’s  Reflective Leadership in the Age of Layoffs , I said “aha!” Dan encourages us to slow down, to reflect, to ask questions that matter. The role of reflection seemed to be bypassed in this rush to create the right strategy — and then, ipso facto, to know what to do. It seems every conversation I have with someone here or overseas  starts with some comment about “these times we are in.” 8221; Moreso for my US colleagues, but the change in economic times is on everyone’s mind.

This paper examines each phase, reflects on how this external triangulation relates to some exemplar learning theories, and finally, offers some examples and suggests how designing this external triangulation into learning and work efforts can increase project success. They need time and space for reflection. OK, I need your help. I

Tags: events learning reflection OpenEd0 Chris Lott posted a really important bit at the end of his overview of Alan Levine’s OpenEd09 presentation on Alan Levine ’s Amazing Stories of Openness . And lest I forget, don’t miss the recording of Alan’s work. It is… well… AMAZING!

often think of these admonitions as reactions reflecting past negative experiences of something. “I Tags: UsThem reflectio (I wrote this in January - never finished, nor published it. I’m cleaning out some blog drafts and it felt worthwhile to try and tidy this one up and get it out. ) As I chew over my learnings of the past week in Rome for the Share Fair and work at IFAD (the

social media, RSS, blogging, and podcasting. Blog Consulting Starting Point Yahoo Pipes and RSS Hacks Speaking OpenID? About « Art of Community Video Art of Community Announcement » Warning : join() [ function.join ]: Invalid arguments passed in /mnt/local/home/fastwonderblog/fastwonderblog.com/wp-content/themes/k2/app/includes/info.php on line 697 "> Reflections on Community Management: AKA “What Do You Do” Published by Dawn on August