Communities of Practice for the Solopreneur
Posted by Laura on March 25, 2009
A number of the people who read this blog are, like me, thoroughly engaged in organizational work, yet working on their own as a consultant / coach / facilitator to organizations. When we’re outside of organizations, one of the things it can be hard to build is a community of practice.
I was thinking about this on the weekend when I attended a get-together of the coaches who went through The Coaches’ Training Institute co-active coaching training with me. Our cohort connected so strongly that we’ve continued to meet together, after all the courses, to share our experiences building our businesses, coaching clients, finding coaching niches, identifying our own strengths, sharing resources, and comparing what we’ve learned.
I believe that it’s essential for those of us working on our own to find ways like this to support our own learning and share the meaning we are finding in our work. And for those of us working within an organization, it’s always a good time to ask the questions: Do I have a community of practice here? Who am I learning from? Who is learning from me? How are we coming together to make sense of our work?
