Helping you grow your organization’s knowledge management capacity Coaching grows your expertise in place by collaborating on real problems. Connecting face-to-face communities, their online components, outsiders, insiders … and the leading edge. Aligning communities and an organization’s knowledge management needs and strategy. Technologies that support, not swallow, communities

Benefits to organizations include: Understanding your organization as a learning system to access and leverage its know-how; Helping communities move forward, instead of stagnating, drifting, or disintegrating; Reaching members around the globe; Keeping staff connected to the organization, to its core competencies, and to the future.

All communities are unique. The productive and vibrant ones get leadership and support:

• Specific services and products that I offer.
• Partners and clients inform my learning and my offering.
• Collaborating with Etienne Wenger and others to teach a workshop on communities of practice. I’ve written up an informal workshop history that describes some of the thinking as the workshop has evolved.
• Here are some handouts from recent talks and papers that capture some of the knowledge generated in my work.
• Planning and facilitating learning events and small conferences. Planning and facilitating on-line communities.
• Gathering and describing current research on communities of practice. Other resources for communities.
• Hosting phone events on communities of practice.
• Sharing some notes and learning from various events and projects.

This page has the following sub pages.

• Studies of and for communities of practice