Nancy Dixon will be speaking and chairing and of course the event would not be complete without Dave Snowden and Ron Young.
I always love visiting Singapore and hope to see many of you there from SE Asia and even farther a field. :-)
Gurteen Knowledge Cafe: Why is trying to engage people so difficult?
Trying to engage people or to motivate them to share their knowledge and to work more collaboratively together is a challenge for many organisations.
What are we doing wrong? What are we missing? Is there something we don't understand about human nature? Are our actions such as rewards and recognition only make things worse?
These are the questions that will drive the conversation in this Gurteen Knowledge Cafe.
Interestingly, I just came across this article Forget Employee Engagement; U.S. Companies Need Passionate Workers that provides some food for thought.
Workshop: Conversation: Our most powerful Knowledge Management tool
Face to face conversation is our most effective Knowledge Management tool. It is critical in communication, learning, knowledge sharing, and relationship building.
It could even be argued that it is our most powerful business tool.
Conversation is the medium through which we make sense of the world. It is the key to better decision making and innovation.
To communicate effectively takes dialogue - face to face conversation in which we enter with a willingness to learn - not to win an argument.
Our primary role as KM leaders is to architect such conversations and to convene and facilitate them.
We have an array of tools at our disposal to do this: peer-assists, after-action-reviews and knowledge cafes to name just a few.
In this highly interactive, conversational workshop, we will explore the role of conversation in business and the conversational tools that are available to address a diversity of business issues.
