Creating Space VIII Reflections: Synthesizing and Going Deeper
Posted May 30th, 2007 by Elissa Perry
As the Leadership Learning Community staff and the Creating Space VIII design team reflect on our experiences, observations, and our still emerging learning, a few themes keep showing themselves. So far we have been organizing the synthesizing of the experience around four themes: roles, structures, context and strategies. read more »
"New" Architectures and Change: A Bay Area Discussion on Leadership and Social Media
Posted April 14th, 2008 by Elissa PerryThe social web is a brand new way of doing very old things with still emerging implications. The nature of change has always been connected and collective but our recent history and the infrastructure of the nonprofit sector and our social change organizations has been much less so. We as a people, and our communication tools, are on a path to bring the individual and the collective back into balance and planning for this is both impossible and necessary. A document in progress examining this shift is available here.
Join the Bay Area LLC on May 16th, 2008 (save the date!) to discuss this topic live and in person at the next Bay Area circle gathering.
Evaluation Wisdom - an overview of evaluating leadership development programs
Posted June 21st, 2007 by Elissa PerryIf you would like to learn more about how leadership programs evaluate their outcomes and impacts, e.g., what outcomes and indicators they define, what approaches, methods, and sources of information read more »
News from the Evaluation Circle
Posted June 21st, 2007 by Elissa Perry
The Handbook of Leadership Development Evaluation is now available! The Handbook provides broad and practical information about how to conduct leadership development evaluations using a variety of approaches. This companion site includes the book's introduction, a summary of each chapter, and links to resources that are mentioned in each chapter. The Handbook was edited by Kelly Hannum, Jennifer Martineau (both with The Center for Creative Leadership), and Claire Reinelt of LLC and brings together a collection of outstanding leadership development evaluators from the nonprofit and for-profit sectors to share their learning about leadership development evaluation design, implementation and use in different contexts. read more »
Creating Space VII - 2006
Posted June 21st, 2007 by Elissa PerryAt Creating Space VII, the Evaluation Learning Circle hosted three sessions. Click on the links below for more information and resources. read more »
Deepening our Capacity to Foster and Evaluate Collective Leadership
Posted June 21st, 2007 by Elissa PerryThe Evaluation Learning Circle held a meeting on January 17th-18th, 2007 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The first day combined the work of the Funders' and Evaluation Learning Circles. Our theme was "Deepening our Capacity to Foster and Evaluate Collective Leadership." With a growing interest among funders and practitioners in cultivating boundary-crossing leadership, community leadership and collective leadership, we saw an opportunity and a responsibility to deepen our understanding of what collective leadership is and how to evaluate it. read more »
