As part of International Facilitation Week, on October 22, and again on October 24, UK facilitator @MartinGilbraith and I are hosting a Twitter (aka Tweet) chat. Each chat will run for one hour, from 9:00-10:00am PST / 12:00-1:00pm EST / 5:00-6:00pm UK time (GMT +1:00). Each chat will include 6-8 questions, spaced throughout the hour, for […]
Cultural diversity in virtual conversations?
September 9, 2013 by · 2 Comments
Last month, I did a cross-cultural conflict management workshop for the Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria. The participants were all immigrants. Their time in Canada ranged from weeks to years. The content focus was the workplace and employment. Culture and conversation patterns One of the concepts I touched on dealt on was cultural differences in […]
Virtual Communities of Practice
July 8, 2013 by · Leave a Comment
If you asked Generation Y’ers how they like to learn, odds are it will be “socially”. And, most of us aren’t all that different. We do like to get together, at least sometimes, for learning. Getting together to learn. That’s what ‘communities of practice’ are all about. A community of practice is a “group of […]
