What is Professional Co-development?

Mastermind groups can be implemented inside organizations to promote collaboration and collective learning. They are generally known as professional co-development groups*.

It is a structured consultations process which focus is to improve the participant’s professional practice with real situations and challenges as well as allowing the group to develop its own learning and synergy.

This solution is adapted for organizations wishing to provide a space where open dialogue, creativity and better practices can take place and to offer to their managerial teams practical advices and learning to progress in their roles.

*This methodology was developed in Canada by professors A.Payette and C. Champagne during the 1990’s.

What Is It For?

It is a training approach that builds on the group and on the interactions among professionals to promote the achievement of the fundamental objective: to improve professional practices within real situations.

A direct result is the increase in the efficiency of the organizations that practice it, improving the quality of relationship among its collaborators.

The group (client and consultants) constitutes a community of learning that shares the same goals and agrees on the method: careful study of a situation experienced by a participant, sharing of practical knowledge and theoretical tools if necessary.

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  • Take time and a step back to think about one’s current professional practice
  • Learn to be more effective and increase performance
  • Belong to a supportive group with trust and respect
  • No fear to talk about areas for improvement
  • Learn to ask for help, to give and receive feedback
  • Consolidate professional identity
  • Develop a spirit of collaboration between peers
  • Build individual action plans upon group discussions
  • Accountability towards the group
  • Presentation of the client’s problem
  • Clarification of the situation, information questions
  • Consultation agreement
  • Comments, suggestions from consultants
  • Synthesis and action plan
  • Learning assessment and evaluation for each participant, client and consultants.
  • Motivation from participants to become more efficient in their professional practice
  • Belief in the possibility to learn by sharing experiences with others
  • Mutual trust in this learning community
  • Play by the rules
  • Help others and receive (both ways)
  • Personal commitment to the process
El intercambio con otras personas sobre las experiencias, permite un aprendizaje que de otro modo sería imposible.
A.Payette et C. Champagne, Le Groupe de Codéveloppement Professionnel