1st Community Chat - The Power of Conversations

I'm a big believer in the power of conversation and its importance in sharing ideas, connecting people and supporting the learning process. This conversation has traditionally taken place face to face or over the telephone but with the meteoric rise in social networks & platforms and online meetings e.g. Skype / WebEx etc over the last few years, more conversation takes place online than ever before.

There are those who would argue that online communication is a poor relation to face to face and that online meetings & conversation don't have the depth and produce the quality outputs that a face to face conversation or meeting provides. On the other hand there are those that would opt for online communication rather than face to face. In my opinion the modern professional should be well versed in all forms of communication and feel at home conversing online and face to face in different situations and in different circumstances whether it's in a forum, community, skype, instant messager, face to face meeting, phone, Facetime, Twitter etc etc - you get the idea.

For me it's about flexibility, adaptability, relationships and of course productivity - being able to adapt and meet the needs of your business, colleagues, customers, clients and stakeholders and having the skills in the toolbox to match the situation with the right approach.

But what about personal development?

Well the same applies - conversations are key (80% of what we learn we learn informally), it's about being able to use a range of different approaches to meet your needs and this can take form in a variety of ways depending on what you're looking to achieve.

I started joining Twitter chats about 12 months ago - the two that I'm mainly involved in are #lrnchat#chat2lrn both are focused on Learning & Development but there are 100's of other 'Tweetchats' out there that allow people to connect across the globe via Twitter and discuss topic of interests and share ideas. They really do help you learn and process new information and when you get to grips with how it works it is a real value add activity for me.

I love the concept of spending 1 hour just getting a group of people together to discuss a topic and share ideas and this is what the DPG Community Chats are about. They will last approx one hour and will discuss different topics each chat..... the first chat is scheduled for next Tuesday 26th June 4pm-5pm. You can find out more info from the events section

All you need to do is log in and go to the main chat room for 4pm where I'll start the chat and do some intros before sharing the first question, there are normally about 6 questions (approx 10 minutes on each question)


Next weeks topic will be "The Importance of Continuous Professional Development"

There will be lots to discuss and share and I hope you join us for the first community chat to see how it works and to benefit from the power of conversation

See you there !!

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