leadership – learning – technology
How do we incorporate diversity into leadership and knowledge management practices? What tools can we use and what do we need to believe, think and understand in order to include diverse knowledge? I’ve been pondering questions like this for quite a while. Here’s what I have found. James Surowiecki’s book The Wisdom of Crowds?(2004) talks…
While consensus has its place in decision-making, it can’t get to the hard answers and narrowing down ideas elicited by the group is one place where group decisions would never get anywhere. In a recent post from The Innovationist titled The Hard Part: Sorting through all these ideas (quoted above) the suggestion was made that you…
They say to treat your friends like family and your family like friends. I think we should also say treat your staff like customers and your customers like staff. If the idea of that scares the heck out of you.. well as they also say Houston, we have a problem! Jesse Stanchak offered up an…
A few weeks ago I had the honour of attending a Hub Gathering in celebration of the third anniversary of the Ye mi sqeqo:tel la xwe’lets emo:t o Community Engagement Hub which is hosted by the Seabird First Nation. Linda Kay Peters is their Hub coordinator and as one of the first Hub Coordinators in…
Community engagement is grounded in creating healthy and productive relationships with constituents. I use the term constituents to more fully include all the individuals, groups, communities, organizations and government agencies that an organization may be in relationship with and therefore needs to engage with. Like all healthy relationships, relationships with constituents are grounded in and…
Yesterday I facilitated the inaugural meeting of a committee that is tasked with developing community driven health plans. The group was made up of representatives from several First Nations in the Fraser Valley including a few Youth and Elders, all interested in creating healthier communities. I sent out a basic framework for an agenda as…