Leadership Groups: Roles and Responsibilities
Leadership role Overall responsibility
Community keepers Bring in the practice of the
participants and their diverse
voices
Social reporters Create collective memory of the
event contributing to a self-
representation of the community
Agenda activists Develop the learning agenda of
issues and activities to move the
practice forward
Critical friends
Carry out ongoing reflection and
feedback to drive the self-design
Institutional brokers
Maintain the interface between
the workshop/community and
UNITEC stakeholders
Community Coordinators Workshop, UNITEC 2010
Etienne Wenger and Beverly Trayner
Preparation
• Plan for visiting the booths and
prepare your wiki space to
contain your summary
• Divide labor
• Prepare a plan for creating a
collective summary of the event
including tools needed
• Review agenda for moments to
capture stories and insights
• Discuss the role of table host
and of facilitator of small group
discussion, including note-taking
• Prepare for collecting feedback
from participants, including
people who just came for the
morning presentations
• Prepare Moodle or other online
spaces that will be an interface
with the wider UNITEC
community
Action
• Look through booths for patterns
and bring in the voices of
people not at the workshop
• Create a summary on the wiki
• Give a reflection of the day on
Wednesday morning
• Capture stories through
snapshots, insights, interviews
via text, photos, video etc. and
present on Friday
• Give a brief summary of day
before at morning session from
the perspective of the
community
• Host discussions about learning
agenda in the café
• Lead conversations about types
of activities and timeline for
addressing priority issues
• Summarize these conversations
on the wiki
• Run reflection and feedback
activities
• Capture feedback on the wiki
• Prepare on the wiki a table of
constituencies and interactions
with them
• Give a brief summary of day
before at morning sessions from
the perspective of institution
Moving on
• Prepare a plan for including all
voices into the unfolding of the
initiative
• Consider how to extend the
collective memory for further
activities/events
• Review and consolidate
prioritized issues into learning
agenda
• Prioritize and plan activities on
the time-line
• Consolidate feedback into
suggestions and
recommendations for future
activities and events
• Plan for how the community will
interact with stakeholders and
sponsors moving forward
• Consider the role of the
institution in enabling further
activities/events