SKIL2 is alive and Liz is back

[liz lennon]

HI Folks
It's been just over a year since I last wrote.

Many thanks to my brother Marc for adding in all the really useful sites and information.

I've been working away at SKIL2 doing lots of research and reading and thinking ... and working with my test organisation ... Depaul Ireland.

I've also been living life offline.

From this week I will be writing more regularly and will start this week with an update on the key work and decisions I have made regarding SKIL2.

I'll also be sharing interesting sites I have found as well as the ups and downs of the SKIL2 process to date.

In essence ... SKIL2 is still very much in development ... and ... it's potential just keeps getting clearer and clearer.

I'm now working with a Depaul SKIL2 Team (part of the whole engagement and buy in strategy I developed last year) that consists of a cross section of the organisation.

They are a brilliant group of people to work with ... intelligent ... motivated ... and happy to test everything about SKIL2.

The Depaul SKIL2 Team have met twice in the last 2 weeks for 3 hours each ... last meeting was on Friday.

We are working to refine the SKIL2 site design that I developed ... and they have already added tremendous value to the design.

In the process of talking back and forth about the design they are also asking questions about policy ... how we can integrate it with existing systems and processes ... how to engage workers to use it ... how to skill up workers ... ways that SKIL2 will capture the organisational memory ... how it will challenge and develop working practice and service delivery to clients ... the conversation is stimulating.

SKIL2 is now in a new phase where my vision is beginning to be shared and understood by others ... and that is really exciting.

I'm building my SKIL2 Champions pool.

I'm chairing the Depaul SKIL2 Team and was gobsmacked when we were setting the date for the next meeting ... I had promised 2 hour meeting from now on as I know how busy people are in their work. People groaned and I then said I could try for 1 hour meetings.

They were groaning because they wanted me to keep the meeting time to 3 hours!

First time in 25 years of working with groups that people have asked for longer meetings ... SKIL2 and hopefully my chairing ... seem to be energising and engaging them all.

I'm delighted.

My learning curve in terms of actually building the SKIL2 online learning space ... is vertical.

Thankfully I have a number of people globally who have offered to mentor and support me as I build SKIL2.

My heartfelt thanks to you all.

Tomorrow I'll give you a run down on some of the key things I've been doing in the last year.

It's good to be back talking with you.

Slan

Liz