Why a Knowledge ‘Workout’?
Do you find yourself faced
with repeating mistakes, duplicating work, not transferring ideas, competing
below potential, lacking creative ideas, being over dependent on key people,
not leveraging scale or wasting time on finding ‘who knows what’……?
Part of the solution to many of these challenges is to manage your knowledge
assets more effectively. Whether you are already involved in knowledge
management (KM) or wanting to start, a knowledge ‘Workout’ helps you to step
back from the demands of the everyday operations, and ‘see the wood from the
trees’ to:
- Get to grips with what you are trying to
do and how to achieve it
- Develop understanding, consensus and
buy-in across the team
- Decide together on the optimal way
forward, focusing on priorities
The Approach:
The approach is tailored to specific needs
and typically involves the team for 1-2 days depending on needs. It is a
facilitated process which:
- Provides access to understanding of
experiences of others and lead practices
- Is designed and tailored according to agreed outcomes:
- Reassess existing priorities and activity
- Plan for new
Synchroni principals have worked with
Knowledge Management (KM) practitioners for over 5 years and a Knowledge
Workout is an opportunity to ‘take stock’ and realign resources …..
The following schematic illustrates the possible framework:
Creating
Common
Understanding |
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Exploring the What and the Why |
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Agreeing
the Way
Forward |
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Purpose
- To develop a consensus on what KM means to
this organisation
- Understand Lead Thinking and principles of
Best Practice
Outcomes
- Agreement on what we mean by KM and its
relevance to us
- Principles for taking forward.
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Purpose
- To agree the priority focus for harnessing knowledge within our
organisation
- Profile the case for committing resource and taking action.
Outcomes
- Agreed objectives, purpose and benefits
- Understanding the 'fit' of KM within the organisation, ie not an
end in itself but a process for supporting and driving performance.
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Purpose
- Agreed how to take forward: who, what, when...
- Build and develop existing good practice, integrate new
Outcomes
- Agreed framework for taking forward
- Priority initiatives profiled
- Alignment with lead thinking and best practices in KM
- Understanding and commitment across the team.
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1-2 day Event Depending on
Specific Needs.
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Results and Benefits:
Investing time in a workout will
help you to:
- Align your resource with business priorities
- Enable you to develop a consensus for moving forward - either shelving a
potential initiative or drive forward with confidence and ‘buy-in’ from all involved
- Highlight lead thinking and new approaches which could accelerate performance
- Connect your up and coming management to lead thinking and provide high
value in organisational learning for a relatively low investment
- Gain commitment of the key people from the outset – the ‘planners are the doers’.
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