Onboarding
How do we get newcomers onboard? Onboarding refers to the mechanism through which new staff acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviors to become effective “insiders”…
Author: Reda Sadki
Mentoring
Fostering relationships that enable and sustain collaboration and inquiry requires building trust about both technical competencies and each person’s interest in dialogue. Therefore, two contexts require…
Encourage collaboration and team learning
Our areas of work are siloed due to limited resources and time, the huge scope of our global mandate, the high level of specialization required, and…
I have no idea
What do we do when we cannot achieve certainty? We increasingly accept that we need to make decisions without the comfort of certainty. It is okay…
Teaching and learning in The Walking Dead (S05E14)
In this episode, the young Noah has asked to meet with Reg, an elderly architect or engineer who had the know-how to build the wall that protects…
Patterns and trends
How do we navigate these rules while achieving intended purpose? When we need new knowledge, where do we go? How do we go about it? How…
Dialogue and inquiry
We learn from each other through dialogue and inquiry. We are excited that we can participate in a rich, diverse world of different perspectives and opinions.…
E-mail is formal learning
Technology has enabled new conversations across time and space. Yet e-mail, for example, has become a formal medium, subjected to some of the same rules of…
Eureka
If informal learning constitutes an important way in which we learn, adapt and grow, it is important to be able to describe when, where, and how…
Accidents happen
Question: Why were you looking at their data? Answer: Just out of interest to see. We recognize that some of our most significant learning may occur…