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Greetings!
welcomes you to the Muse, our monthly email
newsletter.
An archive of the Muse is kept in the
Resources area of Calliope's Web site.
What does Calliope Learning do?
We use high tech and high touch to help you
create meaningful learning solutions that relate
to the organization's business strategy. We
also certify consultants in LearningEdge, a
toolset that provides a map for becoming a
learning organization.
Click here to learn more about our services.
| KTEP - Knowledge Team Effectiveness Profile |
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As Muse readers will know, we are keenly interested
in helping leaders and teams do great work AND enjoy
working together! We were excited to run across a
team instrument, KTEP, that turns data about fuzzy
team dynamics into clear performance feedback. It
is a diagnostic, assessment and discussion tool to
guide you in developing optimal team performance.
KTEP has been tested and proven reliable on hundreds
of teams around the world.
Tammy participated in a certification workshop this
June to work with this instrument, and was very
impressed with the tool's ability to provide
detailed analysis of how a team is functioning. The
real advantage, however, is how well this tool
facilitates the design of custom interventions and
coaching for a team.
Tammy is the only person in Canada certified to
work with this tool! Call her today to find out how
to use KTEP with your team!
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| Bringing Community and Learning to Langara College |
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As we noted in the last issue, we had a number of
Royal Roads graduate learners complete their major
projects using LearningEdge. This month we provide a
short summary of work done by Maureen Ewing.
Maureen worked with Langara College Continuing
Studies to help them identify internal learning and
community strategies that reflect their commitment to
facilitating lifelong learning for their clients.
Langara College has been named the number one
college in the city of Vancouver for the past three
years by a community newspaper survey.
As is perhaps typical of continuing education units
across the country, they very often provide
outstanding service to their clients, but may not
focus enough on how they support their own internal
learning and community building. By using two of
the tools in the LearningEdge process, Maureen
engaged various stakeholders in a dialogue of these
issues and provided many valuable recommendations to
Langara College on how to leverage their existing
strengths to keep up with the challenges they face.
Congrats Maureen on contributing to the ongoing
success of such an important organization!
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| University of Victoria hosts Online Course in September |
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We are very excited that the University of Victoria
is offering our Virtual Team Skills course as an
online elective in their Certificate
in Adult and
Continuing Education program this September. This is
an excellent opportunity to hone your virtual team
skills and complete the Virtual Team Skills
Inventory (VTSI). Please note that ANYONE can take
this course ... you don't have to be registered in
CACE to participate! Full details below:
Learn a competency framework and participate in a
variety of activities and tools that support virtual
teamwork and development. This course will be of
particular benefit to managers, supervisors,
leaders, members of teams (especially virtual teams)
and human resource professionals who design team
processes and evaluate team effectiveness.
Participants will complete a multi-rater online
assessment tool to provide them with a detailed and
individualized report on virtual team strengths and
areas for development. Additionally, participants
will learn how to ensure their virtual team fits
into broader organizational systems and how their
team develops skills to deal with ongoing change.
Instructors: Tammy Dewar, Ph.D., and David
Whittington, Ph.D.
Course Code: EDCA080 2005F1 D01
CACE 0.5 Elective
Fee: $275, plus course materials
If you have any questions about this course, please
don't hesistate to contact us.
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| 2005 LearningEdge Workshop Schedule |
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Here are the scheduled workshops for 2005:
Vancouver - October 3-5
Toronto - November 21-23
Please contact us if you'd like more information
about one of these or would like to suggest other
dates and/or venues.
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Teamwork within organizations has become a bit of
theme over the last few months. We hope you enjoy
this month's cartoon and hope that you don't come
across too many real teams like this!
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