Some Preliminary Conclusions

It's been a while and my poll asks about frequency of checking on each others' blogs, hmmmm. These are just the thoughts rumbling in my head and I needed to get them down. I'll fine tune later - if I wait until I have time to document the entire thing it will be too late and I will run out of TIME.

• Time is quoted as an issue for lots of the LC members. Time to read, time to respond, time to do the work, time to research, time to reflect. Seems like we never have enough. Conclusion: Plan for what is reasonable, make sure everyone in the LC understands the expectations, make sure that the supervisors are aware and support the expectation, and then live by it.
• Number of people in a LC does make a difference. Everything I have heard and read said 8-10 tops. Conclusion: Limit LC size to 8 but keep it crossfunctional. Focus is important but it's nice to learn from those with a different perspective and a different focus - it helps stretch the brain. Some may prefer to have an identical focus - not me.
• Commitment is necessary. Compliance may get some rudimentary work done but commitment creates energy, advancement beyond expectations, and is just more fun. Conclusion: Again planning is important and part of the plan should be to get commitment to required tasks. If commitment is absent, non-committed participants should not be forced or feel forced to participate. Commitment may be easier to come by if the LC work relates directly to the job.
• People are not BORG. Humanity still requires the "human touch" or face-to-face meeting. Conclusion: Build in real-time when people can look at each other or at least hear each other and talk, discuss, reflect, disagree, agree...LEARN