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EMPOWERED PEOPLE IN A CULTURE OF OPTIMISM

There is no need to ‘reinvent the wheel’. As an organisation we need to build on our strengths,
constantly benchmarking our CPTD programme learning experiences against international best
practice, modelling excellence in all our actions and interactions. We should continue to
capitalise on our team effectiveness (Rozofsky, 2015), exemplify what it means to find joy at
work (Liu, 2019) and inspire leadership that is characterised by both competence and caring
(Fiske et al., 2007).

Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) have been at the heart of our programme success for
many years, and we have already successfully migrated to WhatsApp as a means of retaining
these communities remotely. Our next steps should stimulate and elevate the twenty-first
century skills of communication and collaboration. We need to creatively use technology that is
within reach to place our participants at the centre of their own lifelong learning experience,
providing the platform where their ‘face-to-tech’ experience equals (or exceeds) their face-to-
face interactions (Luksha et al., 2018).

Source: Figure 7: Organization of learner-centered educational ecosystem
(Luksha et al., 2018, pp. 44)