{"id":98,"date":"2017-12-06T09:15:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T09:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/?p=98"},"modified":"2017-12-06T09:33:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T09:33:40","slug":"find-your-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/find-your-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Your Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 Universities across the country meet in a skyscraping hotel in Birmingham to share ideas, network and learn together.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-105 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/602\/2017\/12\/pic-1-300x266.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/602\/2017\/12\/pic-1-300x266.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/602\/2017\/12\/pic-1.png 331w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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: <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/0B5DphlRblBAdRFZsbmo1a0RLWlk\">SDF conference<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>My key takeways<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Almost everyone is struggling with the same challenges you are, albeit in a different environment.<\/li>\n<li>Almost everyone is trying new things and making great progress in their own different environments \u2013 finding local and culturally meaningful solutions to widespread issues.<\/li>\n<li>Remember the enormous power of conversation \u2013 whether that be directed and focussed in a workshop, technologically enhanced through Twitter or Glisser or other such media, a provocative and powerful coaching question or simply chit chat over a coffee or a glass of wine.<\/li>\n<li>Put your hand up to be involved in new ideas \u2013 I wasn\u2019t really sure what I was volunteering for with the tweetchat, but very soon I became part of an (almost) award-winning collaborative team that I had never met until the night of the awards.<\/li>\n<li>There is something really invigorating about spending time with like-minded people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cbbc\/watch\/find-your-tribe\">link here<\/a> if you are interested).\u00a0Whoever your tribe are, I would encourage you to go out there and find them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Juliet Flynn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Twitter @CCCU_SD<br \/>\nNext #CoachingHE Tweetchat Friday 26th January<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"authorName":"Juliet Flynn","featuredImage":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/602\/2017\/12\/sdf-logo-website8.jpg","postExcerpt":"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 [&hellip;]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/staffdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}