Sustaining Networks Learning Circle
Posted March 30th, 2007 by Elissa Perry -->At LLC's national meeting in 2002, Creating Space III, there was a strong mandate from leadership programs and funders to build the potential for a national network of alumni by strengthening each leadership programs' capacity to effectively engage their graduates in sustainable networks.
LLC conducted several learning sessions with over a dozen leadership programs to mine lessons and innovative practices that support the sustainability of fellowship networks. The results of this learning are available in the knowledge and resources area.
During the LLC national meeting, Creating Space IV, in May 2003, participants in the Sustaining Networks Circle sessions began actively building relationships across programs around some joint ventures. The group has continued to meet and recently has been documenting its work using a wiki.
Blog Entries
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- For anyone interested in creating and sustaining breakthrough change, you may want to read a fascinating article by Matthew Chin entitled Sustainability and the Second Law of Thermodynamics (September 2003). Matthew runs Operations Success Programs with the Primary Care Development Corporation, an organization that helps health centers and clinics form learning collaboratives to achieve and sustain transformational change in serving the poor, the uninsured, and the under-insured in New York City. After years of implementing a highly successful organizational learning model in diverse health centers and clinics, he and his colleagues became interested in why clinics and health centers have a hard time sustaining the gains that they made. He discovered that leadership was critical to long-term success.25 Feb 2008 - 12:50pm
- Three LLC circles (Sustaining Networks/Alumni, Social Media and Leadership, and Health Leadership) convened for a conference call and web-based meeting using the WebEx platform to discuss creating and sustaining leadership networks. Twenty people explored the following questions:
- What forms of collaboration and network creation are we seeing in the leadership development arena?
- What tools or processes do we find strengthen leadership networks?
- What are the biggest challenges to sustaining network participation?
4 Feb 2008 - 2:31pm - To the Presidents and Deans of America's Arts, Theater, Design, Engineering, Science, and Journalism Schools: In one year we'll be asked to choose a President, 34 Senators, all 435 Congressmen, 11 governors, and thousands of state and local officials. Do you know of any candidate, at any level, that has a platform on creativity, the arts or innovation? Neither do I.29 Jan 2008 - 2:16pm
- Networks and communities of practice are often terms that are used interchangeably. Is there a difference?9 Sep 2007 - 9:12am
- Have you created an interactive on-line directory that enables alumni of your program to connect with each other around shared interests and to find resources?25 Jul 2007 - 12:55pm
- Welcome to the Evaluation Learning Circle blog space! We invite you to register to our site and create your own blog to share resources, ideas, and stimulate conversations about leadership development evaluation that are important to you. Here's my first blog post.... In the last few years there has been growing interest among those in the leadership development field to develop and strengthen leadership networks. One of the tools for understanding networks is Social Network Analysis (SNA).22 Jul 2007 - 12:04pm
Related Resources
Resources on this page have been designated as of interest to this circle or of general interest to all learning circles. Explore more in the Knowledge & Resources area.
| Title | Subject | Author | Uploaded | By |
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| Joint Meeting of Three LLC Circles on Sustaining Leadership Networks | 5 Feb 2008 - 12:02pm | Elissa Perry | ||
| Tom Tresser - The Creativity Imperative | 29 Jan 2008 - 2:12pm | tomtee | ||
| Evaluation Tools for Racial Equity - web site | 5 Jun 2007 - 2:47pm | Elissa Perry | ||
| A Dialogue with Bridge Leaders | 5 Jun 2007 - 2:02pm | Elissa Perry | ||
| Annie E. Casey Foundation Fellows Network | 30 May 2007 - 12:08pm | Anonymous | ||
| Changing the Face of America | 30 May 2007 - 12:01pm | Elissa Perry | ||
| Cross Alumni Learning Summary | 22 May 2007 - 12:20pm | Elissa Perry | ||
| Cross Alumni Collaboration Executive Summary | 22 May 2007 - 11:41am | Elissa Perry | ||
| Cross Program Alumni Gathering | 22 May 2007 - 11:37am | Elissa Perry | ||
| What we are Learning About Creating Sustainable Fellowship Networks | 22 May 2007 - 11:33am | Elissa Perry | ||
| Summary of Five Programs Discussing Their Alumni Development Practices | 22 May 2007 - 11:30am | Elissa Perry | ||
| Program Alumni Discussion Ideas | 22 May 2007 - 11:26am | Elissa Perry |
