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Leadership Academy Event
This event took place on 8th October 2008 at 10:00am (09:00 GMT)
Berrill Lecture Theatre, The Open University, Walton Hall Campus, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
10.00 – 10.15 Welcome (Mark Fenton-O’Creevy)
10.15 – 10.55 Etienne Wenger
11.00 – 11.40 Nigel Paine
11.40 – 12.10 Coffee
12.15 – 12.55 Sarah Robinson, Sue Peters and Lesley Swinn
This workshop is the sixth in a series of workshops bringing together leadership and innovation practitioners from across the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) region to share ideas and best practice in leadership development and innovation. The workshops are highly interactive and participatory and aim to develop new ideas and encourage new collaborative partnerships.
The 'Leadership, innovation and communities of practice' workshop is a virtual and real world event hosted by the Practice-based Professional Learning Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. "People who live in the intersection of social worlds are at higher risk of having good ideas"
(Ronald S. Burt, The Social Origins of Good Ideas, 2003)
Although in higher education institutions we are very concerned with the processes of formal learning, we are increasingly recognising that the majority of learning (and the most important) happens informally in the course of our everyday practices in work and our wider lives. This learning happens by virtue of our membership of a variety of communities. As Burt notes in the quote above, innovation is not mostly about sitting on your own and having good ideas. It is most often a process of importing and translating ideas from one setting onto another. Innovation arises out of interaction between individuals and groups with different ways of seeing the world and different ways of tackling problems.
This workshop will bring together participants from the different worlds of higher education, business, and training to consider how communities of practice can foster innovation and learning in business; and to look at the kinds of leadership necessary to build and support such communities. The workshop will include presentations from Etienne Wenger, Nigel Paine, Sarah Robinson, Sue Peters and Lesley Swinn who have significant practical experience of building and supporting communities of practice who will share their learning and understanding with delegates. |
| 10:00 am Leadership Academy Event Session 1 |
| 12:15 pm Leadership Academy Event Session 2 |
The webcast was open to 400 users
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