"Once you have tasted of the sky, you will forever look up"
“Once you have tasted of the sky, you will forever look up”
Happy Friday! Can you believe that next week it will be May?!
This week I went into my “archives” and found some of my sky pictures. The sky is my favorite photography subject of all. I find the continuity of it calming and the discontinuity of it thrilling.
“Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up” Leonardo da Vinci
I have always had this habit of putting off my work until the very last minute. On some level, the time crunch forces me to solidify my thoughts and is beneficial. But, for the most part, I am just delaying a task that needs to be completed and running the risk of putting people in a difficult position. Growing up I would beat myself up over my tendency to procrastinate and I would berate myself…
One area of study that has long fascinated me is the area regarding the various generations of people that we have, specifically in America. Over the last eight years or so that has shifted to how those generations function together within the workplace.
I know that people have differing views on names for the generations, if there even should be those distinctions, when the dates of the…
Talk-through, walk-through, run-through: learning needs practising on different levels was the subject of the SKMF Round Table sponsored by IT-Logix in Bern, October 18, 2016. It was an opportunity for like-minded professionals to network and to gain hands-on experience on knowledge flows and knowledge transfer.
Participants found the round table to be of great value, giving them a solid overview of how IT Logix deals with the challenges of knowledge sharing. “The content, combined with exercises we delved into during the round table, was practical; it will be easily applied to knowledge management cases” expressed Anders Bröchner. David Gemmet’s biggest take away was “how knowledge transfer as an unstructured field can be managed by utilising a structured approach such as talk-through, walk-through and run-through.”
The SKMF thanks IT-Logix for hosting the round table and for its warm hospitality including the wonderful buffet. It was a great workshop and a perfect location for people to meet and share KM perspectives.
Discovering what we don’t know about recruitment and were always afraid to ask
Véronique Sikora
June’s roundtable, facilitated by Joyce Miller and Eli Defriend, took us on a journey of exploration of the recruitment process from the needs assessment of the various stakeholders in the organisation to the specific requirements of the concerned department, to recruitment, which liaised with, and ended with the recruitment agency.
The various actors, stakeholders, at each table represented a segment of the recruitment process. Some were applicants, some represented the production department with their needs and requirements, and some were professionals in recruiting, internally and externally.
How could we represent our process? What would we tell the stakeholders who had questions for us? Or who required our services? What did we think we would achieve? Would we be hired? Would we find the right candidate? Would the candidate have the right qualifications? And according to whose needs? These are but a few of the questions that arose. Some were answered, others were left in the air for many to ponder…
When General Stanley McChrystal started fighting al Qaeda in 2003, information and secrets were the lifeblood of his operations. But as the unconventional battle waged on, he began to think that the culture of keeping important information classified was misguided and actually counterproductive. In a short but powerful talk McChrystal makes the case for actively sharing knowledge.
