Webinar: David Gurteen presents Knowledge Café Webinar
14 December 2009
Tuesday 9th February
Webinar Price: £145+VAT
Background
In this webinar by David Gurteen, you will get to understand the desired outcomes, fundamental principals and benefits of the Knowledge Café process.
Knowledge Sharing is a key issue for Knowledge Management and for organizational success. But real Knowledge Sharing requires an open mindset and continues to be a challenge for many organizations. In fact, it can be difficult to even get people to talk openly to one another other about their specific corporate interests, opportunities and responsibilities.
One way of energizing an organization to achieve real Knowledge Sharing benefits is the use of Knowledge Cafés. A Knowledge Café is an effective vehicle for opening up conversations and discussions that lead to sharing.
One way of thinking of the Knowledge Café is as a tool that is used to share tacit knowledge. It can be used within teams or Communities of Practice to question entrenched assumptions, to help facilitate learning from others and gain a deeper collective understanding of a subject – through conversation.
It is not just about talking and networking though these are secondary benefits but allowing people to engage each other in "dialogue" with the aim of learning from each other rather than entering into unproductive debate and attempting to impose their views on the other which invariably end in failure and frustration.
Specifically a Knowledge Cafe can:
- gain improved understanding of a complex issue
- get buy-in for a new initiative
- flush out problems and issues in a department or project especially ones of lack of communication that can then be acted on and resolved
- help build consensus around a proposed plan of action
- improve the way that people work together by gaining a deeper understanding of each others perspectives on issues
- jointly develop a policy document e.g. a code of practice (done in conjunction with say a wiki)
- a tacit transfer mechanism between young and retiring workers
- more widely share individual expertise
- help merge two cultures after a take-over
- improve inter-personal relationship and thus ability to work together effectively
In effect the Knowledge Café is an easy, low cost way to make Knowledge Sharing really work for you and your organization.
