Communities of Practice Start Guide

Communities of Practice Start Guide, available at $54.99, has an average rating of 4.1, with 16 lectures, based on 13 reviews, and has 86 subscribers.

You will learn about What communities of practice are and why they are useful. How communities of practice are unique organisational structures and what does it mean for design and development. A best practice process model for the development of communities of practice that emerged from my own projects over the course of my professional career. How to apply this process model in real-life cases by means of a quick-start toolbox with its 20 practical tools. This course is ideal for individuals who are First of all, community coordinators who play a critical role in helping the community develop its structural elements. or Then the community’s core group: the most active members who take on leadership roles within the community. or Last but not least, managers and project staff, particularly those in information and knowledge management but also human resources, IT, project management and those in strategic departments. It is particularly useful for First of all, community coordinators who play a critical role in helping the community develop its structural elements. or Then the community’s core group: the most active members who take on leadership roles within the community. or Last but not least, managers and project staff, particularly those in information and knowledge management but also human resources, IT, project management and those in strategic departments.

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Summary

Title: Communities of Practice Start Guide

Price: $54.99

Average Rating: 4.1

Number of Lectures: 16

Number of Published Lectures: 16

Number of Curriculum Items: 20

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 20

Original Price: $39.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

What communities of practice are and why they are useful.
How communities of practice are unique organisational structures and what does it mean for design and development.
A best practice process model for the development of communities of practice that emerged from my own projects over the course of my professional career.
How to apply this process model in real-life cases by means of a quick-start toolbox with its 20 practical tools.

Who Should Attend

First of all, community coordinators who play a critical role in helping the community develop its structural elements.
Then the community’s core group: the most active members who take on leadership roles within the community.
Last but not least, managers and project staff, particularly those in information and knowledge management but also human resources, IT, project management and those in strategic departments.

Target Audiences

First of all, community coordinators who play a critical role in helping the community develop its structural elements.
Then the community’s core group: the most active members who take on leadership roles within the community.
Last but not least, managers and project staff, particularly those in information and knowledge management but also human resources, IT, project management and those in strategic departments.

Expand your management skills with a best practice process model that enables you to design, start and sustain a community of practice by understanding communities as unique organisational structures: i.e. as living things.

Do you have the feeling that developing communities of practice is not easy and at the same time that the available methods are either too simple or too complicated?

Then this course is just right for you! It is a practical introduction to the development of communities of practice that follows a process model that I have developed from real cases over the course of my professional career. A project for developing a community of practice needs to integrate three essential aspects in its process: 1) project management, 2) the community’s lifecycle and 3) its vital elements. The PLiED approach does exactly this and helps you in doing so to start successful, vital and viable Communities of Practice.

Why Communities of Practice?The business world in which we are living today is a world of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity: a so-called VUCA world. It is a new world which changes faster than we can learn. In order to cope successfully in the VUCA world, organisations should develop collaborative cultures, embrace collaborative practices and foster knowledge sharing (see IDC, 2016; Venkatraman, 2018). Communities of practice can help organisations to do exactly this and as such, increase the organisations’ performance and enable them to cope with the VUCA world.What makes communities of practice able to accomplish this? It is their unique organisational approach focused on people and specifically focused on suitable social structures that enable community members to learn with and from each other.

This course is an introduction to quickly starting, evaluating and sustaining communities of practice. An advanced course on the same topic will follow, providing a deeper explanation and broader application of the PLIED approach. I look forward to welcoming you to this and other courses that I would like to publish soon.

But let’s get to this course for now and familiarise ourselves with the PLiED approach, a perspective on community development that integrates the three essential aspects needed by a project for developing a community of practice in order to be successful.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Welcome & administrative information

Lecture 2: What is a Community of Practice (CoP)

Lecture 3: Examples and value of Communities of Practice

Lecture 4: How to guide the development of a Community of Practice

Chapter 2: Community Project Management

Lecture 1: The PLiED process for the development of Communities of Practice

Lecture 2: Initiation & Planning

Lecture 3: Execution & Monitoring

Chapter 3: Community Development Process

Lecture 1: Starting the CoP

Lecture 2: Evaluating the CoP

Lecture 3: Sustaining the CoP

Chapter 4: Quick-Start Toolkit

Lecture 1: Toolkit overview

Lecture 2: Tools set A: Project Definition

Lecture 3: Tools set B: Participative Community Design

Lecture 4: Tools set C: Community Roles & Responsibilities

Lecture 5: Tools set D: Community Events & Assessment

Chapter 5: Wrap-up & Additional material

Lecture 1: Communities of Practice Start Guide – Course Summary

Instructors

Marco Bettoni
Researcher, Lecturer, Consultant

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