Thanks Charles and Harry for the clarification,
As regards coaching and mentoring, there is an interesting summary here:
http://www.coachingnetwork.org.uk/resourcecentre/whatarecoachingandmentoring...
I think the idea of having Training meetings in Cambridge is a great idea. I would be happy to attend on either Saturday 14th/Sunday 15th (preferably Sunday) provided WMUK pay travel expenses.
I found the informal discussion we had last Thursday after the Training session delivered at the Mozilla premises very useful. One point I remember in particular was the usefulness of keeping records of who came on training and having a suitable system of follow up and evaluation.
I feel that we need more discussion amongst those already involved in the training before incurring additonal expenses by asking people such as Midas to create extra training packages. I think we already have an impressive range of experience amongst those who deliver training and would suggest it would make more sense to develop Team learning (see Wikipedia for a brief description!) This could be an important part of helping WMUK develop as a learning organisation.
This involves systems thinking as well as training, with an iterative process which gets around what Martin Poulter calls the Hard Problem.
What's more, I think this approach fits so well with the collaborative model which lies at the heart of Wikis.
all the best
Fabian (User:Leutha)
On 2 July 2012 10:44, fabian@unpopular.org.uk wrote:
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I think the idea of having Training meetings in Cambridge is a great idea.
It would be great to have you there.
I would be happy to attend on either Saturday 14th/Sunday 15th (preferably Sunday) provided WMUK pay travel expenses.
Clash with Wikimania means the following weekend would be earliest chance, though.
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I feel that we need more discussion amongst those already involved in the training before incurring additonal expenses by asking people such as Midas to create extra training packages. I think we already have an impressive range of experience amongst those who deliver training and would suggest it would make more sense to develop Team learning (see Wikipedia for a brief description!) This could be an important part of helping WMUK develop as a learning organisation.
The Midas quote would in any case go to the budget holder, and a positive case would have to be made for it. Without a quote there would be a vacuum on the financial side.
As a general comment, I have an outside view to the effect that 20K from a 500K budget allocated to training would be on the low side.
The case for a larger training budget would need to be made on the basis of costed proposals that had particular targets (see the other recent thread on strategy and spending). We should be looking at a range of proposals to understand what things cost. This research does not exclude other ideas at all.
Charles
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