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Hi Kenneth,

Thanks for the update .. any timeline for the practice areas will be firmed up?

Also, just a comment here with regard to the disclosure of "OTHER INFO" of members who had registered so far .. many do not even supplied "OTHER INFO" ..

If members are not even prepared to provide "OTHER INFO" and registered with just their names ONLY, I am wondering whether they will be open to share their knowledge and experience .. even, for those who are on LINKEDIn, one get more details about members .. not just the name at LINKEDIN ( http://www.linkedin.com/ )

What are the possible PRACTICE AREAS?

The Workforce Development Agency (WDA) of Singapore has funded HCS to design a process to expose1080 HR professionals to the concepts of Professional Communities of Practice (CoP). The HR CoP project unfolds in 2010-2011as 36 CoP workshops of 15 professionals occur each year. Each workshop will be facilitated by a facilitator trained in the workshop process.

To quote Madame Ho Geok Choo of HCS “We want to create a community of practice amongst people managers where we see them to be coming together to share, learn, and practice, as well as to unlearn, relearn, and learn.” Later, Madame Ho narrowed the scope to “we want participants to get a taste of CoP, to become ambassadors for the CoP approach.”

The broad and long term goal of this CoP project is to create sustainable Communities of Practice in the HR knowledge domain in Singapore and the pilot project is a beginning. WDA, the funding agency, requires these KPI's and the project is designed around them.

WDA KPI's

•  1080 HR professionals are to be exposed to CoP in half-day workshops, 15 in each of 72 workshops over a two year period
•  Each workshop is to focus on one of 12 distinct HR practice areas in 2010.
•  At least 30 facilitators are to be trained to conduct the workshops
•  40% of the CoP members must be converted into active members
•  This 40% CoP members should ideally represent 30% of the companies whose managers and above are part of the CoP member population.

HCS has expressed these short and long-term goals

Short Term (2010-2011)

• Produce action learning, leading to deployment of ideas and methods within the CoP Members’ companies and to the broader community.
• Produce enhanced interest in continuous improvement of HR functions.
• Record tangible information about HR practices into the HR Practice Library

Long Term:

• Produce enhanced morale and motivation among HR professionals, making the profession attractive to top talent.
• Produce a culture of peer learning and sharing.
• Produce a respected alternative learning channel based on action learning.
• Produce a dynamic interaction among CoP participants who will take control of their CoP processes and continue it

FWA (the process designers) focused on these outcomes:

• Members say their time spent in the workshops was worthwhile.
• Many members express an interest in attending more CoP worshops
• Many members express intent to apply CoP ideas in their enterprise
• Members say the workshops increased their professional-social connections
• Member are using the HR Practice Library

 Additional WDA and HCS design constraints:

•  Target organizations from which to attract CoP members are SME’s, MNC’s, and GLC’s, while acknowledging that CoP participants must share common problem sets and interests.
•  Target CoP members are: Diploma level managers, Directors (in SMEs), and (hopefully) CEO’s of SMEs and business unit managers in larger organizations
•  There will be 6 workshops in each of six industries (36 total); one contains an “industry champion”; 3 of the 6 workshops have members from SME's and the other 3 from MNC's and GLC's
•  Each CoP workshop meets for 4 hours. The budget funds fees for one facilitator for each workshop.
•  2010 Practice Areas are to be important HR topics to company CEOs and/or to the HR profession.  The Practice Areas will be selected by a panel of subject matter experts including by an HCS Network. The panel will assist in establishing the business case and creating provocative questions around each of the Practice Areas.