Leadership Learning Community [beta]

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.  read more »

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:  read more »

• 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?

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.  read more »

Networks and communities of practice are often terms that are used interchangeably. Is there a difference?  read more »

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?  read more »

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).  read more »