Developing a broader team: Professional Learning Community Launch

From one conversation to another and another, a spark of insight created what will become our agency's Professional Learning Community. Have you wondered how you can get your teams/departments to talk more to one another? We will try a PLC, a community/team of professionals that will share their personal insights as we read books and participate in professional development opportunities. We will use these first 6 sessions to go through the forming, storming and hopefully move into the norming stage. All of these stages are necessary to learn about each other, our team make-ups, our shared visions, and build trust. We can transition from the norming stage to the performing stage of teams and begin to discuss deeper team topics and move agendas at more optimum levels. This is my hope anyway! Please share if you have other ways to build work communities. I love my work leaders for supporting this idea and know we already have a good place to start.