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Emily Webber

@ewebber.bsky.social
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People first, organisation consultant. Author of Building Successful Communities of Practice and creator of the Team Onion. Londoner in Merseyside. Blog at emilywebber.co.uk Biz at hellotacit.com Other websites and projects at ewebber.co.uk

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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
This is one of the best letters to receive. Year 1 all clear, next test in another year.
Patient: EMILY WEBBER 
Your recent breast imaging showed no evidence of breast cancer.
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Communities of Practice go through different phases as they mature, and their needs vary throughout. Sign up for my new self-paced course today to learn more, including practical strategies to grow, supercharge, and measure communities of practice in or across organisations. at tacit.pub/learnCoPs
What are the phases of a Community of Practice?
Potential
The community begins life as a loose networks of individuals
Forming
Members get immediate value from joining up around a shared purpose
Maturing
The community grows membership and value of interactions.
Self-sustaining
The community has enough momentum to keep itself active
Building Successful Communities of Practice An online self-paced course with Emily Webber
tacit.pub/learnCoPs
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
This just appeared, I’m crossing everything for them
M&S
Sorry you can't browse the site currently.
We're making some updates and will be back soon.
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Communities of Practice have so many great benefits. These are the five I like to use to describe them. To learn more, including how to grow, supercharge, and measure communities of practice in or across organisations, sign up for the new online self-paced course at tacit.pub/learnCoPs
What are the benefits of Communities of Practice?
tacit.pub/learnCoPs
Communities of Practice Support people Giving them the confidence and motivation to excel.
Communities of Practice Grow capability Accelerating learning and raising collective skills.
Communities of Practice Bridge knowledge Joining up people and ideas to reduce gaps and silos.
Communities of Practice Scale approaches Spreading good practices and creating consistency.
Communities of Practice Enable collaboration Creating better practices, raising standards and quality. 
Learn more, including how to grow, supercharge and measure communities of practice in or across organisations.
tacit.pub/learnCoPs
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This labour of love is now live! Learn to start, grow and supercharge communities of practice with: ★ Expert-led videos, discussions, tasks and downloads ★ Practical, hands-on activities to support your learning ★ Tutor support ★ A certificate of completion Start learning at tacit.pub/learnCoPs
Building Successful Communities of Practice with Emily Webber
Learn how to form, grow, supercharge and measure communities of practice in or across organisations. 
An online self-paced course at tacit.pub/learnCoPS
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Brill - I would add "recreated by Aoife from the original board at miro <link>." Under this bit.
Usage of this board
 
This workshop was created by Jamie Arnold and Emily Webber and is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0

You can edit and use this board according to the licence, but always credit it to Jamie Arnold and Emily Webber.
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Exciting news! I'm launching my brand new online self-paced course very soon. With videos, reading, and hands-on activities, learn how to identify, form, grow, and supercharge communities of practice in and across organisations. Sign up now to receive a discount at launch tacit.pub/onlinecourse
Building Successful Communites of Practice with Emily Webber

Coming soon, sign up now for a discount at launch.

Learn how to form, grow, supercharge and measure communities of practice in or across organisations 

An online self-paced course at https://tacit.pub/onlinecourse
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
New blog post The Leadership Team Purpose Workshop emilywebber.co.uk/the-leadersh...
The Leadership Team Purpose Workshop
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Some snaps from Sweden #griiix #granaps #gr3x
A yellow building from underneath with pleasing anglesThe edge of a swing bench on the walkway next to the water Blue skies and a Swedish street lightBuildings and bright road signs
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I immediately thought of this but with the Lewisham council logo on it and you could only take one sheet.
Toilet paper that looks like tracing paper with “council property” and “now wash your hands” printed on it.
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
However Dave is an import from London like me, this is him meeting a local, Dave doesn’t stand a chance. (Sound on)
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Close up of a black and white cats face. He has his mouth open like he wants to have a word.
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I am running a Masterclass on Communities of Practice on 20th March, and the slides are looking 👌 Expect lots of insights and practical steps for communities at all stages. Join me at leap-online.mn.co/plans/1510719
An image showing people connected across teams and the text: 
Community 
of practice
Informal
Non hierarchical
Voluntary
Connected
Long lived
Cross-cuttingLEAP Masterclass
Communities of Practice, creating powerful networks and accelerating digital skills
With Emily Webber
20th March 2025 1pm-2:30pm
Registrations open!
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Awww O'Malley looks like Evie but with an additional leg
A tabby cat with a white belly lying on its back looking cute, it is missing one of it's back legs.
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Dave, dave, there’s a mouse that’s come in the house from the cold what are you going to do about it…. Literally this. Useless.
A black and white cat lying on its back with its head smushed into the sofa and no intention to do anything about the mouse.
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This gift came in the post yesterday and keen to dig in. Lovely to see my paper I wrote a few years back with Robin Dunbar referenced.
Book 

THE SOCIAL BRAIN
The Psychology of Successful
Groups by Tracey Camilleri, Samantha Rockey
& Robin Dunbar
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Ooh, I have a chilled cat game called Cats are Cute.
Black line drawing of buildings with cats in or on them.
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I took a little walk out early before anyone else had walked on the snow. #grsnaps #griiix #gr3x
A snow covered life ring with the sea behind itAn oval seaside style toilet block with lights on surrounded by snowBird foot prints in the snow
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Some snaps from today’s walk through the Formby dunes. #griiix #grsnaps
An icecream van nestled between treesA path through the dunes with bushes on bothe sidesWindswept trees on the dunes, they have grown in the direction of the wind.A magical forest with sandy floor as trees.
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A few photos from walks this week #ricohgriiix #wallasey
A very green golf course, with a flag. In the background is a man on a hill and some flats. A green, with the sea in the background, there’s a rainbow in the blue skies.A 60s block of flats.
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Just ordered a fresh new batch of Team Onion books, if you want to get a copy then head on over here teamonion.works - if you have been using the model and are up for sharing how, then please drop me a line teamonion.works/get-in-touch/
A Team Onion book, white with green, blue and yellow concentric circles on it, with two Team Onion postcards depicting the same circles and communication patterns.
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Fancy local bollards, I’m also enjoying this analog film recipe on #ricohgr3x
3 metal bollards with fancy top designs of a triangular engraved pattern and pointy tops. Behind them is a view downhill.
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Time for this photo from up the road.
A red phonebox with colourful window decals. There’s a plaque next to it explaining that it’s the K6 phonebox, a tiny OMD museum.
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Some photos from this week. Trying out some new recipes on my #ricohgriiix
A moody blue sky with clouds over some yellowing grass.A silhouetted landscape with a bright blue sky on the left and rain clouds on the right tinged with orange. There’s a storm in the distance. The side of a building above a shop. Red bricks with stripes of orange.
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Reposting my popular post from elsewhere. It's still relevant 6 years later. I made a handy flowchart called "Should I say resources?" Please use as needed.
A flow chart titled: Should I say resources?
Do you mean people? 
If yes, say people
If no
Do you mean people and things?
If yes say People and the things
If no
Do you mean things?
If yes, say the things
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I had to return my camera as it broke, but now I have the replacement. So here’s some snaps from a wander about this week. (it's the lovely Ricoh Griiix)
A lifering embded in a sand dunes with grass in the backgroundA close up of a spider web with a spider lounging in the middleA view through an alleyway of a foggy a foggy green
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
Uncovering some wallpaper while removing a radiator. This is called “spot and friends” by Wilson Wallpapers 1973
Photo of brightly coloured wallpaper with illustrations of animals and flowers
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
But this gets through
Screenshot if a Fesshole post 
Been eating prawn cocktail crisps more than any other my whole life.
Still don't know what a real prawn cocktail tastes like. Don't want to know.
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
Ok this on everything. As someone who lives in Merseyside, this seems correct.
A tub of salt and pepper powder
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
Hyped for today’s keynote from @elizayer.bsky.social at #agilecam
Slide with To exit full screen, press
Transparency
Giving information access to a whole group
And a woman standing in front with expressive arm position
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
A strong start to @agilecambridge.bsky.social from Alison Coward on what it means for teams to thrive
What makes a good day at work for you?
www.bracketcreative.co.uk
Getting work done, being productive, being organised and being able to get through work with minimum interruptions or delays.
Teamwork and collaboration, team culture, relationships colleagues, working with nice people.
Challenging projects, learning something new, problem-solving, getting involved in projects
Recognition and feedback, appreciation, sense of accomplishment, client feedback.
Little perks and being cared for.
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
It gets better, this is the OMD museum in Meols
A red phone box with coloured stickers on the windows next to a wall with a plaqueA plaque reading: K6 Telephone Box, Greenwood Road Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark released Red Frame White Light, their second single, on 1st February 1980. This phone box was the band's unofficial office in their early days. The track features '632 3003' the box's phone number.
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Here on my app
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #216,278!
Celebrating 10m users 🎉. Number 216378, first 10%. Joined July 3, 2023
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
I reckon it has to be knitting Finnish socks. www.searchpress.com/DownloadJack...
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
Yay it’s #platformlandday - get yours at londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platfo... by @richardpope.org
Platformland book by Richard Popo
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
Not only is this plush Lambanana a great Liverpool souvenir, this week I learnt that Dave the cat thinks it’s a kitten and keeps licking its face and it makes a pretty good neck pillow. shop.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/products/sup...
A black and white cat licking the face of a plush lambanana.
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
Hello Sunday
A table with cutting mat, scissors, pattern pieces and a sewing machine.
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
Something about eating breakfast
Found AI generated image of a brown bear eating a big bowl of cereal.
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
The tide’s out. Good morning from the NW.
Beach with tide out and blue, cloudy sky
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 18/08/2024
I’ve got him now, who wants him next?
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
Ok I’ll stop posting gorgeous skies after this one. Early morning treat. Good vibes for the day. #wallasey #merseyside
Orange and blue sky with a rainbow
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
Last night on our local beach. Sometimes it’s like I live on holiday. #wallasey #wirral
Man on beach, with sunset in the background
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 11/08/2024
Early morning runs get rewards. #Wallasey #merseyside #wirral ❤️
Big sky with the sun rising and orange clouds. Liverpool dock cranes are silhouetted against the sky.
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 10/08/2024
Likelyhood is I bought it at the record stall in Greenwich (alternative) market or Woolworths in Downham in SE London at some point in the 90s
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
Ok third one is Evie, she hates people and other cats and would rather be under the bed than meet anyone, so you might think she doesn’t exist. She’s way too cool for it all. She has 3 legs but she don’t care.
Cute three legged tabby cat
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
Dave is the Tools for Tools cat, he has the best advice on drills and always tries to help any tradespeople that come round
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
The posh business man (Eric) liked to eat beef wellington and drink whiskey in the club with his contact Jeffrey, always coming up with new business ideas. He had the most extensive story.
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
One of my favourites recent photos - also on www.instagram.com/lookmerseyside Wallasey skies are beautiful
Sunset time. A big grey and orange cloud in a blue grey sky over the top of some silhouetted houses.
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
Look it’s @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social spotted at DoES Liverpool
A poster on a brick wall saying A good idea does no good if no-one knows about it
Rachel Coldicutt
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