Building Leadership in Project and Network Management

Hans-Werner Franz ist Mitglied der Geschäftsführung der Sozialforschungsstelle der TU Dortmund.

Messages for facilitators and lateral leaders.- The functions and roles of network facilitators.- Moderation as a role.- Visualisation — why and how it helps you to understand and remember.- Basic concepts of perception and communication.- Basic concepts of learning and competence.- The concept of responsibility.- Basic concepts of organisation and co-operation.- Basic concepts of management and leadership.- Communities of practice and self-organisation.- Basic concepts of knowledge and knowledge management.- Project work as a work style.- The nature of quality: continuous improvement, continuous learning.- Basic concepts of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).- Basic concepts of networks and clusters.- Learning networks - constructing social capital.- Reminder – Konrad Lorenz dixit.- Didactics and curriculum.- Making learning easy – facilitation and the didactics of action learning.- A curriculum of action learning - the modules.- Tools.- Improving Communication.- Collecting information.- Planning and managing projects.- Analysing problems and preparing decision making.- Growing experience — from unconscious incompetence to unconscious competence.- The SME ACTor project experience.- e-Facilitating networking in distance co-operation contexts.