Being a Knowledge Activist


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Target Audience
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Overview/Description
You. You're the one it starts with or the one who helps it to succeed. Knowledge management can never flourish in a company without people like you--the activists. You know your company, the people, and the potential. And one more thing. You care. You want your company to succeed and your cohorts to have a creative, successful environment within which to work. That's why you've chosen to learn about knowledge management. The final step is to take what you've learned and put it into action--to be a knowledge activist. After all, isn't that where the real reward comes from?

Target Audience
Executives, managers, supervisors, team leaders, knowledge experts, and other business professionals who want to initiate or support knowledge management within their organization

Expected Duration (hours)
3.0

Lesson Objectives

Knowledge Activists

  • recognize benefits of being a knowledge activist.
  • identify the reasons for becoming a knowledge activist.
  • identify characteristics of knowledge activists.
  • match knowledge activist roles to examples of those roles.
  • Becoming a Knowledge Activist

  • recognize the value of becoming a knowledge activist.
  • match the methods of interacting with examples of those methods.
  • apply techniques for effective communication.
  • demonstrate performing the roles of instigator, facilitator, and evangelist in a given scenario.
  • Ready, Set, Know

  • recognize the benefits of carrying out knowledge management projects.
  • sequence the steps for focusing knowledge projects.
  • analyze business scenarios to determine if knowledge activists have successfully focused their knowledge projects.
  • identify the steps for planning knowledge projects.
  • analyze business scenarios to determine if knowledge workers have successfully planned their knowledge projects.
  • match the steps for implementing knowledge projects with descriptions of those steps.
  • analyze business scenarios to determine if knowledge workers have successfully implemented their knowledge projects.
  • Course Number:
    KNOW0105