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<\/p>\nLast week saw a group of staff developers (I wonder if there is a collective noun\u2026a workshop of developers, a mindmap of\u2026a dazzle of\u2026any suggestions on a postcard please) from Universities across the country meet in a skyscraping hotel in Birmingham to share ideas, network and learn together.<\/p>\n
\nSince joining HE a couple of years ago I have been searching for a broad community of practitioners in my field of staff development and organisational development (OD). I spent many years in the NHS where I had a strong sense of identity with other OD colleagues both regionally and nationally. Within CCCU I am part of a great team, and have instigated a community of practice of staff developers across the University too. Attending the SDF conference enabled me to network more widely \u2013 particularly with some colleagues I had connected with through Twitter. A few months previously\u00a0I had responded somewhat nonchalantly to a call-out about setting up a monthly tweetchat on the topic of Coaching in HE; it has now become a real success. I finally got to meet the others in the group in person, and we received a Highly Commended Award for Developing Excellent Practice.<\/p>\n
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There were workshops on coaching, leadership, learning technology, team development and neuroscience. My personal favourite moment was exploring moments for leadership through Shakespeare\u2019s Henry V \u2013 a powerful story indeed. All the presentations are openly available if anyone is interested: SDF conference<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n My key takeways<\/strong><\/p>\n I was reminded as I wrote this of the recent CBBC campaign to Find Your Tribe \u2013 encouraging children to recognise and celebrate their interests, skills and passions\u00a0(link here<\/a> if you are interested).\u00a0Whoever your tribe are, I would encourage you to go out there and find them.<\/p>\n Juliet Flynn<\/strong><\/p>\n Follow us on Twitter @CCCU_SD Last week saw a group of staff developers (I wonder if there is a collective noun\u2026a workshop of developers, a mindmap of\u2026a dazzle of\u2026any suggestions on a postcard please) from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136217,"featured_media":129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,37,42,38,33,25,29],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-coaching","tag-conversation","tag-learning","tag-networking","tag-shakespeare","tag-tribe","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n
\nNext #CoachingHE Tweetchat Friday 26th January<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"