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Learning Matters

By Learning Lab, July 2022

Note from the Learning Lab Team

Adjusting to annual summer transitions, and perhaps the more recent circumstance of hybrid work schedules, is a good time for individuals, teams, and organizations to revisit how they work together.

The ability to adapt requires an environment that promotes intentional learning and allows for flexibility in responding to changing contexts and circumstances, either within organizations or programming.

If your team is working out new, in-person dynamics or trying to manage knowledge retention during staff turnover, there are a variety of resources that you can turn to. Tools and templates for pausing and reflecting and after-action reviews are good starting points to build common ground for moving forward - and you may even want to incorporate new norms for hybrid facilitation in the process!

Check out this month's featured content below for inspiration and guidance.

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What We're Excited About This Month

Becoming an Adaptive Organization: U.S. Government Perspectives
By MSI, A Tetra Tech Company


A panel of four U.S. Government department and agency leaders convened on June 7, 2022 to share their organization's experience, approaches, stories, and lessons learned on adaptive management. Watch the recording of this insightful discussion.
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Open Letter on Hybrid Facilitation
By USAID Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL)

This conversational open letter from staff in PPL shares reflections on the trials and tribulations of shifting to hybrid facilitation and avoiding various risks of "participant disconnect" to unwieldy tech logistics.
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Managing Staff Transitions Through CLA: Preserving Institutional Memory as Staff Come and Go
By USAID Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning

This handy guide is particularly relevant to USAID/Washington operating units and Missions that are looking to minimize institutional memory loss in the process of offboarding and onboarding staff.
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In Case You Missed It!

Find more content and news from Learning Lab and our partners below, or browse the site.
  • The MOMENTUM Knowledge Accelerator published a landscape review of six adaptive programming guidelines and toolkits and one implementation science framework.
  • Chris Thompson and Paige Mason from Social Impact posted a blog on lessons and guidance for technical management of remote evaluations.

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