The document discusses strategies for skills development, competency assessment, and acculturation through alignment. It recommends training in specific skills, coaching/mentoring, curating and sharing knowledge, and using active learning teams. Other strategies include self-assessment, developing personal professional development paths, and establishing expectations, vision and trust. The goal is to form a social learning cohort and personal learning networks to facilitate skills and knowledge growth through small-scale implementation focusing on learning skills, competencies, values, and culture.

1. Skills & KnowledgeCompetency & AssessmentAcculturation & Alignment
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2. Skills & KnowledgeCompetency & AssessmentAcculturation & Alignment
Training (skills-specific)
Coaching/mentoring
Curation and sharing
Personal expertise
Active-learning teams
Knowledge areas (e.g.)
● Fundraising fundamentals
● Channels
(Annual/Planned/Capital/T
ransformational/etc.)
● Marketing & Comm
● Campaign prog.
managment
● Unique considerations of
pediatric hospitals
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3. Skills & KnowledgeCompetency & AssessmentAcculturation & Alignment
Training (skills-specific)
Coaching/mentoring
Curation and sharing
Personal expertise
Active-learning teams
Knowledge areas
Growth mindset
Self-assessment
Strength/weakness
Mapping
Tools and methods
Personal PD path
Curriculum dev
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4. Skills & KnowledgeCompetency & AssessmentAcculturation & Alignment
Training (skills-specific)
Coaching/mentoring
Curation and sharing
Personal expertise
Active-learning teams
Knowledge areas
Growth mindset
Self-assessment
Strength/weakness
Mapping
Tools and methods
Personal PD path
Curriculum dev
Expectations
Modes
Vision
Purpose
Outcomes
Trust
Initial Prioritization
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5. Competency & Assessment
Acculturation & Alignment
Skills & Knowledge
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6. Competency & Assessment
Acculturation & Alignment
Skills & Knowledge Professional Development / CoP
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7. Competency & Assessment
Acculturation & Alignment
Skills & Knowledge
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8. Competency & Assessment
Acculturation & Alignment
Skills & Knowledge
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9. Competency & Assessment
Acculturation & Alignment
Skills & Knowledge
PKM: Find. Filter.
Sense-make. Share.
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10. Social Learning Cohort
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11. Personal Learning
Networks (PLN) / CoP
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12. Skills & Knowledge
● Small doses of job skill
development
● Teach learning skills
● Practice “Learning/
Working Out Loud”
● Form learning teams
● Introduce peer
coaching/mentoring,
when ready
Competency & Assessment
● Provide time & tools for
self-assessment
● Individually-created
learning plans
● Share, when ready
● Map competencies to
specific skills
● Co-create learning
process norms
Acculturation & Alignment
● Start small but
consistently
● Incorporate values and
purpose explicitly
● Create ways for cohort
to provide feedback &
buy-in
● Be transparent
● Follow through, always
● Learn the culture...
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In the beginning….

13. Skills & Knowledge
Competency & Assessment
Acculturation & Alignment
Social Learning Cohort
Personal KM: Find.
Filter. Sense-make.
Share.
PLN / CoP
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14. Jane Hart, Centre for
Learning &
Performance
Technologies