Liberating Structures

I had the opportunity to learn about 9 liberating structures at a PD workshop at Royal Roads University last week. As a facilitator and educator, I am always looking for what is new in the field and for new ways to engage participants. These liberating structures, although not necessarily new (Fishbowl, What So What? Now What?), are conceived and …

A new leadership mindset

Another wonderful post from the Leadership Learning Community! Most leadership educators are aware of the new leadership paradigm: the focus on process rather than on the individual or “the leader”. Although we understand this concept and happily talk about it, I wonder if we really understand what the implications of this approach are. Deborah Meehan, …

Resources for Cultivating Systems Thinking

I want to share this post from the Leadership Learning Community blog. If you haven’t heard of it and are interested in leadership resources and learning, you must check it out. Original post can be found here. — Submitted by Deborah Meehanon Wed, 05/18/2011 – 17:19 Listening to Professor john powell’s webinar yesterday on Systems …

Networks and Communities of Practice

I just read a blog post from the Leadership Learning Community entitled: Networks and Communities of Practice: What is the difference? The article starts stating that those terms are used interchangeably. I have used “knowledge communities” and “learning communities” to represent “community”, which is what really matters to me. A group of people with similar …

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Deliberate Practice is the name of the blog I write for the University of Toronto. The topics are related to leadership development, organizational change, social justice, social innovation and higher education.