Learning Layers 1st workshop 16/04/2014, Professional Networking

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Scaling up Technologies for Informal Learning in SME Clusters
Help us to Design your Practice
Manager & Data Quality
Professional Network!
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Workshops
• Workshop 1: Professional Networking benefits
and existing tools
• Workshop 2: Help Seeking – Co-designing
your own professional network – Phase 1
• Workshop 3: Help Seeking – Co-designing
your own professional network – Phase 2
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Learning Layers
Project
Consortium
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Project Coordination
Technology Research
Regional Application Clusters
Scaling Partners
Technology Partners
Health Care – Leeds
Construction &
Building – Bremen

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Healthcare Cluster
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Co-design activities
Bradford City GP Practices

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Practice Managers Network
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Paula asks others for
information and advice
Current Situation
 Well established network in Bradford City
 Small but effective core group of members
 Monthly face to face meetings
 Good use of email to share questions/answers & information
 Facing common problems
Your aims
 Expand the group
 Improve sharing – workload, knowledge, expertise
 Strengthen the voice and impact of the network within the CCG

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Data Quality Leads
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Paula asks others for
information and advice
Current Situation
 No existing network
 Hard to find out who does similar role in different practices
 Not all practices have this post
 Can feel quite isolated, although likely to be tackling problems
common to all practices
 Hard to get good practice shared
Possible aims
 Establish a network
 Set up sharing – workload, knowledge, expertise

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Nurses Forum
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Paula asks others for
information and advice
Current Situation
 New network in Bradford City
 Regular face to face meetings – variable attendance
 Small number of active members
 Little communication and sharing between Nurses by email
 Small number of Nurses in each GP practice
 Can lead to feelings of isolation
 Make it hard to attend training or network meetings (GP practice dependence on
Nurses)
Your aims
 Support and expand this new group – ideally making it self-supporting
 Improve sharing – questions, knowledge, expertise and concerns/support
 Explore potential for mentoring within the network
 Use the group to help support your professional development
 Strengthen the voice and impact of Nurses in practices – help to be heard

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How can social network technologies
support professional networks?
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Paula asks others for
information and advice

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Social Technologies Today
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Source:
http://www.mckinsey.
com/insights/high_tec
h_telecoms_internet/
the_social_economy

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Social Networking Tools
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Paula asks others for
information and advice
64% adult internet users in UK* said they had a social
networking profile
* http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/media-literacy/adult-media-lit-
13/2013_Adult_ML_Tracker.pdf (OFCOM 2013:4)

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Social / Professional Networking Tools
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Paula asks others for
information and advice

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Professional Networking Tools
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Main Benefits:
Build on and expand your professional networks
Get advice or support from others in the network
Share the workload
Spread knowledge
Improve practice

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Workshop 1
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By the end of the workshop, you will have:
Created a professional profile
Used the tools for building networks
Connected with other professionals
Ask questions or created/joined discussions
Explored the main features of LinkedIn
Started to explore and discuss what you would
want from a Help Seeking tool to support your
PM & DQ networks

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Workshop 1
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Activities:
 Tell us about your current experience:
http://goo.gl/ICN1wN
 LinkedIn
 Give us your feedback on LinkedIn and let us know what
you want from the HelpSeeking tool: http://goo.gl/20WD7B
 Discussion

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Scaling up Technologies for Informal Learning in SME Clusters
Thank you!
Next workshop: 20th May 2014
Help us to Design your PM & DQ
Professional Network!
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