Tell me about it
Featured in the Developing Teams: The Leader's Role training manual
By Aileen Goodman & Caroline Love
Category: Team Building
Credit price: 3 download credits (Single user)
Knowledge management is a key strategy for organisational effectiveness. It involves bringing together strands of information to plan, implement and evaluate the organisation's aims and objectives, having systems in place to manage this information and the communication strategies to ensure the information is used for learning and achieving the required business outcomes. This activity helps team leaders to look at their own team in relation to knowledge management and see how this can be used to enhance their learning and development.
The activity starts with a brief discussion on what knowledge management is, and the group then consider some of the problems they experience in managing knowledge. The group use a milling exercise to share their ideas for managing these problems. Individuals then complete an assessment questionnaire about knowledge management in their team, and note their priorities for improvement. They form pairs and each person either draws a picture or writes a story to depict how their partner's team will look after the priority improvements have been successfully implemented. These are shared together. The activity ends with small groups producing a 'spider chart' of the learning and development opportunities for their team from knowledge management and individual completion of a learning log.
Who is it for: This training activity is intended for use by trainers with team leaders to explore the ways that knowledge management can help their team to learn and develop.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 5 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 01:30:00 |
| No of Pages: | 17 |
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Purpose: This training activity is intended for use by trainers with team leaders to consider the ways that knowledge management is used by them and their teams, and to explore how they can use knowledge management to help their team learn and develop. It can be used as part of a programme on Developing Teams: The Leader's Role, or Managing Poor Performance. It can also be used as part of Knowledge Management, Personal Development, or Processes and Techniques for Planning programmes.
Download the training activity, Tell me about it as featured in the Fenman training manual; Developing Teams: The Leader's Role