emily webber - building successful communities of practice:
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Discuss with your neighbour:
What value do you get from meeting other people that do the same job as you?
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Building Successful Communities of Practice Discover How Connecting People Makes Better Organisations
Agile Cymru 2016 Emily Webber @ewebber emilywebber.co.uk / tacitlondon.com
“…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.” Wenger-Trayner
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Community of Practice
“Absence of support is taken as a sign of mass rejection” Matthew D. Lieberman
Social: Why our brains are wired to connect
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Connecting people through communities of practice will help break down silos and make your organisation better
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“Knowledge is something you buy with the money. Wisdom is something you acquire by doing it” Taiichi Ohno
“Copying other people’s successes, when combined with individual learning, is dramatically better than individual learning alone.” Alex “Sandy” Pentland
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By learning and practicing together members of communities of practice get better at what they do (faster)
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Communities of practice create the right conditions to help retain tacit knowledge
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from silos
to sharing knowledge
to solving shared problems
to using the collective knowledge of the community to create better practices
“Teams of people have a collective intelligence that is independent of individual intelligence and greater than individual intelligence.” Alex “Sandy” Pentland
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By solving problems together communities of practice use their collective knowledge to create better practices
“Happier workers… were 12% more productive. Unhappier workers were 10% less productive” ‘Happiness and Productivity’ by Andrew J Oswald, Eugenio Proto and Daniel Sgroi
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Communities of practice will give people the emotional support they need and motivate them through mastery of their craft
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Don’t underestimate the time and effort you need to put in to make them work
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Adapted from Cultivating Communities of Practice - Wenger, McDermott and Snyder
Community maturity stages
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ENER
GY
AND
VIS
IBIL
ITY
POTENTIAL
FORMING
MATURING
SELF-SUSTAINING
input needed
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You won’t get the best results without a sense of community
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Don’t become your own silo and look for ways to share with other communities
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Thank you.
Emily Webber @ewebber emilywebber.co.uk / tacitlondon.com