3. Our new world
• Old paradigms are gone
• Training is a formal input -
not equated with learning
• Learning is omnipresent -
fundamental to our
humanity
• We live in global
connectedness
4. It's happened!
• "The most fundamental
change in humanity since
we learned to talk" (Prof.
Pierre Levy. Prof. of
Philosophy, Univ. of Ottawa)
• "Our brains are shifting
physiologically as a result
of the social media
revolution" (Prof. Lord
Robert Winston. Emeritus
Prof. of Medicine,
University College, London)
5. What our new world is
like
• Open communication
• Work is learning - Learning is
work
• Wirearchies
• Communities - of Learning and of
Practice
• Individual choice - self-actuated,
self-directed
• Global environment - global
access
• Knowledge is free
6. In the new world......
• Management is
less significant
• Leadership is
more
prominent
• Style of
leadership is all
important
7. What's driving it?
• Organisations no longer
in "Command and
Control" mode
• Communities have no
hierarchy - run
themselves on a mutual
support basis
• Individuals do not want to
be told - interested in self-
discovery
8. SOME IDEAS THAT NO
LONGER APPLY?
• Structuring
• Organising
• Monitoring
• Reporting
• Measuring
• Designing
12. CONCEPTS FOR THE
NEW WORLD
• Supporting
• Enabling
• Collaborating
• Helping
• Connecting
• Sharing
• Suggesting
• Listening
13. RESULTING FROM.......
• Openness
• Other person centredness
• Knowing that giving leads to receiving
• Understanding that experience analysed is learning
• Sharing of insight - and receiving feedback
• Belief in "Community"
15. What is Leadership in
Learning?
• Encouraging community
formation
• Stimulating collaboration
aimed at discovery
• Modelling supportive
behaviourt
• Fostering relationships in
the community
16. Getting Communities
established
• Finding people with mutual interests
• Providing a "space" for them to learn together
• Offering a suitable platform to make
collaboration easier
• Encouraging agreement about behaviours
• Enabling people to express themselves
17. Stimulating Learning in
Communities
• Encouraging establishment of
threads, lines of enquiry, pins to
give a framework
• Asking questions, providing
responses, injecting new
thinking
• Alerting to new ideas and
information from outside the
community
• Using 70-20-10 appropriately
• Checking comfort and sense of
belonging
18. Working towards
sustainability
• Encouraging closeness,
respect and warmth
• Encouraging leadership
of the community to
move with people who
have appropriate insight,
energy and courage
• Encouraging individuals
to pursue their own
learning - and to share
outcomes with the
community
