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Crowdsource professional development fund ideas for team members.  I think it'd be great if members could start and share a thread on how funds have been used previously or your ideas on how to use them.

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Crowdsource professional development fund ideas for team members.  I think it'd be great if members could start and share a thread on how funds have been used previously or your ideas on how to use them.

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Offer both pre-planned learning/presentations as well as opportunity for questions, discussion, group brainstorming, etc.

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Offer both pre-planned learning/presentations as well as opportunity for questions, discussion, group brainstorming, etc.

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A USAID-focused COP where we talk about USAID culture, organization, and policy updates that impact our work. 

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A USAID-focused COP where we talk about USAID culture, organization, and policy updates that impact our work. 

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Virtual Production CoP is a great resource when a solution for a problem is needed!

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hearing about issues and solutions that have come up

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hearing about issues and solutions that have come up

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It's critical to create ownership of the members for sustainability.

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How do I learn about which COPs exist, and how do I join one if I'm interested?

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Community leads to longevity and isolation leads to burnout. If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. 

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Community leads to longevity and isolation leads to burnout. If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. 

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I am new so I don't know if this exists but it will be great to have an internal CLA CoP to share resources and learn from the practice of CLA

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I appreciate collaborating and sharing experiences with others. Learning.

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It would be great to have a COP on evaluation approaches and another one on analysis approaches.

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For the person building a session it is a time commitment to bring learning together and share. 

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For the person building a session it is a time commitment to bring learning together and share. 

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Love it when the forums present practical skills and/or how to use the latest technology and how we can use it to bring our work to the next level.

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Being about to think about problems or solutions you haven't yet encountered but might in the future - brainstorming and sharing with others prepares you and allows you to be proactive

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Being about to think about problems or solutions you haven't yet encountered but might in the future - brainstorming and sharing with others prepares you and allows you to be proactive

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How do you create and maintain engagement in a CoP? 

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How do you create and maintain engagement in a CoP? 

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More cross-pollination, less silo-ing (is that a word??)

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More cross-pollination, less silo-ing (is that a word??)

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The best CoPs help people learn about new to them resources and ways of working.

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I have only engaged in the design forum but that was almost 2 years ago but I loved learning about NEW things in the field. It was a great way to learn. 

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I have only engaged in the design forum but that was almost 2 years ago but I loved learning about NEW things in the field. It was a great way to learn. 

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I really want to start a CoP, and understand at the same time what the critical success factors are! 

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I really want to start a CoP, and understand at the same time what the critical success factors are! 

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How do you design it so engagement is sustainable?

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How do you design it so engagement is sustainable?

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To keep the energy up we need to foster ownership and give leadership to the members to keep collaboration and learning going.

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Opportunities to collaborate with and learn from others in a CoP fosters growth in various skills and creative ideas. It's a form of informal professional development amongst colleagues

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Opportunities to collaborate with and learn from others in a CoP fosters growth in various skills and creative ideas. It's a form of informal professional development amongst colleagues

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What's the difference between a CoP and a Working Group? 

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What's the difference between a CoP and a Working Group? 

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How can the EnCompass LMS be used to support CoPs?

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How can the EnCompass LMS be used to support CoPs?

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I'd love to participate in creating a CoP focused on Instructional Design.

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CLA, it would be great to have a CLA community of practice.

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Importance of communicating goals with others in CoP

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Importance of communicating goals with others in CoP

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Lots of rich experience among colleagues

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Lots of rich experience among colleagues

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Please stay tuned for info on how to provide input for the revisioning!

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How can you establish a robust Community of Practice that has partially required participation (a Business Development one, for example :) ). 

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How can you establish a robust Community of Practice that has partially required participation (a Business Development one, for example :) ). 

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What if a COP isn't public? Should it still have a Compass page? (We have 2 new-ish ones in TA/Eval)

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What if a COP isn't public? Should it still have a Compass page? (We have 2 new-ish ones in TA/Eval)

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The internal USAID CLA CoP is super vibrant and is mostly email-led (people asking questions and sharing resources via email); there are facilitated meetings, but they aren't regular and demand-driven

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The internal USAID CLA CoP is super vibrant and is mostly email-led (people asking questions and sharing resources via email); there are facilitated meetings, but they aren't regular and demand-driven

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For Design Forum, will appreciate any ideas you have! 

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For Design Forum, will appreciate any ideas you have! 

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My biggest issue is finding time in the day to participate in COP.

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My biggest issue is finding time in the day to participate in COP.

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I think the "forums" should be rebranded as "Communities of Practice"--so Design COP instead of Design Forum. Forum sounds less interesting and less inclusive than COP (to me at least).

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interact with the rest of colleagues and learn from other experiences

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interact with the rest of colleagues and learn from other experiences

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It would be great to have guidance on the various COPs at the time of employee onboarding with points of contact to join the ones that are most of interest.

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It would be great to have guidance on the various COPs at the time of employee onboarding with points of contact to join the ones that are most of interest.

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What are the Communities of Practice? What does it mean?

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How many CoPs do we have? and in what topics?

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How many CoPs do we have? and in what topics?

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I used to get notifications about the Design Forum COP but I have not received any for at least a year. Didn't know this was still active

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I used to get notifications about the Design Forum COP but I have not received any for at least a year. Didn't know this was still active

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I appreciate learning from colleagues across the company both in the learning evaluation forum and in the design forum. I usually walk away inspired.

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What is the criteria for development of a new CoP?

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What is the criteria for development of a new CoP?

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We are putting together a COP for our MEL offices outside the US and it would be great to learn from these existing COPs at EnCompass.