Tools & resources

Useful links

Introduction to CoPs (Wenger)

How to turn a group of strangers into a team (Amy Edmondson/psychological safety)

White Privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack

Critical corridor talk: Just gossip or stoic resistance? Unrecognised informal higher education leadership

How to get people to actually participate in virtual meetings

Moving stories: exploring the LIFE session storytelling method as a way of enhancing innovative, generative outcomes in practice

What is distributed leadership?

How participative leadership brings the workplace together

Promoting and assessing value creation in communities and networks

What are various ways to facilitate a retrospective?

Virtual collaboration tools

Mentimeter (polls & quizzes)

Mural (single whiteboard)

Jamboard (multiple whiteboard pages)

Trello (project/action tracker)

Survey templates

MS Forms template for set up 

MS Forms template for renew

MS Forms CoP Stage 3-(5): Understanding impact survey template

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Related resources

'What works in CoPs': Two projects (UofG and ODHE)

Communities of Practice Toolkit (ODHE)

Facilitation tools for meetings and workshops

CoP roles and contributions

Stage 1 workshop questions

Example set up workshop design prompts

Example set up facilitation outline

Working together online 

Review Planning Template

Where to now?

What are CoPs & how do they work?

Stage 1: Find the energy

Stage 2: Set up/renew

Stage 3: Launch & initiate

Stage 4: Deliver projects & learning activities

Stage 5: Understand impact