Peer Group Learning
Peer groups have quickly become the most effective and economical way to increase on-the-job performance.
Peer groups are bi-weekly or monthly meetings of co-workers in the same role or at the same level of the organization who help one another to do their jobs better. The meetings are conducted virtually with a planned agenda intended to further both skills and professional relationships among the attendees.
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For example, a group of 8 – 12 project managers might meet bi-weekly to discuss interpersonal issues, such as how to deal with an underperforming direct report and occupational issues such as how to keep a technical glitch from derailing a project (aka sharing experiences and best practices).
The meetings are ninety minutes. For the first sixty minutes, we introduce topics that we have identified – with you – as critical to developing leadership skills. These discussions may be prefaced by reading or video assignments or assessments. The final thirty minutes are for in-the-moment sharing and Q+A.
“To maximize fluency with new material, learners should practice skills, concepts, and strategies in multiple contexts over time. Practice builds neurons in the brain, making it easier to retrieve and apply this knowledge.”