Thanks Charles and Harry for the clarification, As regards coaching and mentoring, there is an interesting summary here:
http://www.coachingnetwork.org.uk/resourcecentre/whatarecoachingandmentoring.htm I think the idea of having Training meetings in Cambridge is a great idea. I would be happy to attend on either Saturday 14th/Sunday 15th (preferably Sunday) provided WMUK pay travel expenses. I found the informal discussion we had last Thursday after the Training session delivered at the Mozilla premises very useful. One point I remember in particular was the usefulness of keeping records of who came on training and having a suitable system of follow up and evaluation. I feel that we need more discussion amongst those already involved in the training before incurring additonal expenses by asking people such as Midas to create extra training packages. I think we already have an impressive range of experience amongst those who deliver training and would suggest it would make more sense to develop Team learning (see Wikipedia for a brief description!) This could be an important part of helping WMUK develop as a learning organisation. This involves systems thinking as well as training, with an iterative process which gets around what Martin Poulter calls the Hard Problem. What's more, I think this approach fits so well with the collaborative model which lies at the heart of Wikis. all the best Fabian (User:Leutha) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
