Capturing the Creative Learning Academy

Doing something innovative is one thing, capturing it is another. I am capturing the personal development approach which I am taking forward with my team, and which I have been writing about here. The book which I have started on this, should be finished soon. (All part of the drive to ‘ship’ things before resistance kicks in!)

Below is the opening section of the book, which has the working title “We Get the Work Done Together”.

I’ve been reading Seth Godin’s weblog (www.sethgodin.com ) for a few years now, and as well as reading his free books which are on the internet, I have also bought a couple of his books to read. I really enjoy the free flow of provocative ideas that he puts together. It really gets you thinking about things in unconventional ways.

One of his recent books is called “Linchpin” and it has become one of the group of books which the team I lead is working through as part of the Creative Learning Academy which I have developed.

A free e-book by Seth Godin, “The Insubordinates”, is an add-on to the Linchpin book. It sets out the people who Seth feels have influenced his thinking, or helped him to achieve what he has. He gives a bit of a rant and storyline on each person. I read it the other day, and it inspired me to pull together my own summary of the key people who have really shaped my thinking over the last few years.

At the time of writing, I am in the midst of developing a new approach to learning as a team. The Creative Learning Academy takes a set of ideas around personal development, co-creation and creativity. Using an organic approach, a set of workshops and learning tools have been used to take the team through a shared experience.  The focus is on encouraging everyone to see learning as an essential part of work and the life that surrounds it.

I’m not sure, as I write this, who I am writing it for. I guess to some extent that I am doing it to clarify my own thinking, but it may also help to explain the broader context for the Creative Learning Academy and its ongoing development. Either way, here goes…