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Leveraging Up!
By considering these points when designing and implementing a
peer learning community, a program can flourish as participants
collaborate and stakeholders realize their goals.
BONUS: 3 Ideas to Start Peer Learning
Within Your
Admin Community
No matter how big your company is, you can start a peer learning
program without much investment. One of the strengths of this type
of learning is that it can be done rather informally. Here are three
things you can do to kickstart peer learning at your company:
Learning Lunches
Many companies have instituted a learn-at-lunch program,
and you can organize one in just a few minutes. A learning lunch is
simple: everyone in a group, department, or company gets together
on a certain day to have lunch together (you can have the lunch
catered or just ask everyone to bring their lunch). During the lunch,
one person presents on a topic of interest.
The restrictions you place on the topic are up to you; some
companies encourage their employees to talk about work-related
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