Peer Group Learning
Peer groups have quickly become the most effective and economical way to increase on-the-job performance.
Peer groups are bi-weekly or monthly meetings of co-workers in the same role or at the same level of the organization who help one another to do their jobs better. The meetings are conducted virtually with a planned agenda intended to further both skills and professional relationships among the attendees.
For example, a group of 8 – 12 project managers might meet bi-weekly to discuss interpersonal issues, such as how to deal with an underperforming direct report and occupational issues such as how to keep a technical glitch from derailing a project (aka sharing experiences and best practices).
The meetings are ninety minutes. For the first sixty minutes, we introduce topics that we have identified – with you – as critical to developing leadership skills. These discussions may be prefaced by reading or video assignments or assessments. The final thirty minutes are for in-the-moment sharing and Q+A.