WCL projects as Staff Development and Leadership training Vehicles

Creating a WCL project around important work is an excellent way of developing staff and “training” leaders. It’s better to develop and train through actual work projects than (only) thru classroom and seminar style training. We add a generalized coaching component, and an reflective, concept-oriented one to regular WCL project work.

Four Ways of working with us:

Please Contact us to discuss your interest and ideas about working with us.

• Project-based Work
  We describe our WCL project work under Our Approach and in our pages on clients and past projects.
  
  NOTE that we are always interested in new areas or types of projects — it’s the anthropologist-ethnographer in us that likes new terrain, new villages, new tribes. So, although we have done a great deal recently in health care, we are interested also in working in other settings, as we have in the past.
  
  
• Coaching WCL
  Your Projects. We coach your staff through new projects of their own, enriching their methods and perspectives. Especially good for staff development and leadership training programs.
  One-on-one. One of us coaches one or two selected staff in the underlying principles Water Cooler Logic and the field methods, taking a broad, organizational depth of field look at their primary responsibilities.
  
  
• GUIDED EXPERIENCE: Ethnography at work
  A much more extensive, thorough version of one-on-one coaching. We take a more in-depth, ethnographic-anthropological look at your organization, its culture and its contemporary challenges. We work with one or two of your staff as our ethnographic partners. A program for your most up and coming staff viewed for leadership positions.
  
  
• Workshops on the WCL approach
  Introductory half or full day workshops to introduce groups of 8 to 15 to WCL in more detail, prior to deciding on a specific work project.