Communities of practice: creating, managing, sustaining 

Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly (E. Wenger).  This workshop will help you tap into the collective intelligence of your workplace.  Learn how to link together, clarify problems, and create solutions faster than ever before.  The workshop emphasizes practical solutions based on real people in real places trying to address difficult problems.

What will you learn?

Using a comprehensive participant workbook (provided) and expert facilitation, each participant will learn:

1. What is a community of practice and how are they used.
2. The major components of a community of practice.
3. The major elements of a community of practice strategy.
4. How to create a community of practice - based on case studies taken from a range of organizations.
5. How to manage a community of practice - tools and templates will be provided
6. How to sustain a community of practice, including common problems and solutions, training and issues of communication and culture.
7. How to identify and overcome barriers to a successful community of practice.
8. How to monitor and evaluate progress of the community of practice. 

Who is this workshop for?

People involved in the management and delivery of knowledge based solution to complex problems in health, education, government, social services, business, and non-profit organizations.  This workshop is most useful for middle to senior decision makers who have the ability to make decision about the allocation of time and resources in their organizations.  It is also a helpful workshop for those involved in knowledge mobilization activities including: transfer, exchange, translation, publication, dissemination, and diffusion activities.

How Much?

Event Fee: $295.00

Who is delivering this workshop?

This workshop is delivered by Knowledge Mobilization Works, a leader in developing human and organizational capacity to access and use knowledge to create added value. The facilitator will be Peter Levesque, President and CEO, who has over 10 years of experience working with individuals and organizations to increase return on human investment.

What are people saying about this facilitator?

Peter is a visionary in the field of knowledge mobilization and knowledge strategies for community well-being. He brings a depth of theoretical understanding about the role of knowledge in social transformation to the challenges of using knowledge to solve the complex and multi-sectoral issues of these times.  He is a gifted networker, a superb facilitator and a creative designer of knowledge mobilization and related strategies. He is comfortable with business, government, academic and community audiences.  He is Canada’s leading voice in knowledge mobilization. Dr. Budd Hall, University of Victoria

Peter is on the leading edge of thought within the knowledge management. His, as well as his Canadian colleagues’, mantra is “knowledge mobilization” a concept that lends a much needed social and action orientation to the knowledge management arena.  Based on my personal experience and exposure in the field I believe the methodologies he and others are developing are responding to shifting realities and will have staying power and practicality for society in the coming decade.  Jonathan Green, Director of Knowledge Management, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Thank you for your presentation and follow up conversations. You were truly a hit! You seemed to appeal to everyone both more technically savvy and those less so.  Your message was clear and accessible no matter where people were on the continuum. Thanks again for doing this. Amy Coupal, Executive Director, Curriculum Services Canada