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About Stacey Spirito, MS, SPHR
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I am able to answer questions that relate to Adult Learning, Adult Learning Theory, Andragogy, Human Development, Workforce Development, Adult Literacy, Multi-Sensory Instruction, Continuing Education, and Lifelong Learning.
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Stacey is a Human Resources and Workforce Development professional and consultant. She researches and develops instructional materials with a focus on teaching organizations how to communicate and create a more effective workplace. She has worked with numerous organizations within public and non-profit sectors, designing and realigning human resources and employee development for manufacturing, retail, and service industries. Many organizations have benefited from her insights, including large global corporations, small start-ups, IPOs, and non-profit organizations.
Stacey holds an undergraduate degree in human resource administration and a graduate degree in human development. She is a certified Senior Human Resources Professional (SPHR) as recognized by the Society of Human Resource Management and has been teaching, facilitating, and providing consulting services related to numerous human resource issues for more than a decade. She frequently leads workshops and classes on training techniques, employee development, and human resource issues for civic, professional, volunteer organizations, and at a college near Washington DC. She provides answers and guidance to human resource related questions as an expert on Allexperts.com and writes articles on creative training techniques, development strategies, and human resource issues.
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Expert: Stacey Spirito, MS, SPHR
Date: 5/10/2008
Subject: communites of practice
Question
I am in a data management class and have been asked to explain what communities of practice means. I work for a law firm and I guess I am not understanding what a community of practice really is or how it would apply to my office. I was thinking that a practice group would be a community of practice. I dont think that it has to be related to the firm where I work and was just wondering if you could give any examples relating to this term. I would very much appreciate it. Thanks
Answer
Sherrie,
Communities of Practice (CoPs) = an informal organizational learning technique. An excellent source to see this in action is in the article by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid, "Organizational Learning and Communities-Of-Practice: Toward a Unified view of working, learning and innovation." as published by Organizational Science, Vol. 2, No. 1, February 1991.
CoPs are based in informal organizational learning, organized around a practice, and provides opportunities to groups of people within an organization to share what they know, learn from one another, and collaborate experiences with others who have similar interests or goals.
The function of CoPs is to develop the individuals within to enhance their expertise and define their roles. The CoP is brought together informally and not for the purpose of a project, individuals within belong because they want to build their knowledge and share what they know with others, and increase innovation. The CoP is for an unknown duration and lasts as long as there is interest.
For additional information, follow this link: http://home.att.net/~discon/KM/CoPCharacteristics.htm
I hope this helps you. If you have additional questions, please let me know.
Stacey
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