The Effective Knowledge Worker , 04 Mar 2008, London, United Kingdom (Gurteen Knowledge)

Background
Knowledge Networking is a new way of working where you purposefully share your knowledge, structure your work to learn from each other and strive to work more effectively together to get things done! It has the potential transform the way that you work and radically improve your effectiveness.

Who is this workshop designed for?
This workshop is designed for knowledge workers and their managers. In the knowledge-based organization - we are all knowledge workers and this workshop will prove useful to you if you are serious about transforming the way that you work; your ability to create and to innovate and improving the way that you manage and interact with other people in your organization.

What makes this workshop different is the recognition of the pivotal role of the individual in a knowledge based organization and thus its focus on helping and supporting you - the individual - to recognize and develop your knowledge-working competences that you need to work more effectively and creatively in your company.

Why should you attend this workshop?
In a fast changing world, to be creative and innovative we need to discover new ways of viewing the world and more appropriate ways of working together and doing business. Through our culture, educational and business lives, however, we have become conditioned to limit our perception and creativity.

This workshop will enable you as a knowledge worker or a manager to become more reflective about the changes going on around you and thus more effective at your job. The workshop provides time out for you to examine your changing job role and equip you with concepts, tools, and techniques for coping with emerging workplace challenges. It will expose you to new thinking and help you to better understand, interpret, adapt and respond to the challenges emerging from the growth and spread of the knowledge based economy.

Workshop Format
This workshop consists of a number of modules or sessions. The objective of each session is to inspire you to take action. Each session has a list of practical suggestions of “things to do “-- ideas that if you put into action can ‘make a difference’. Each session also comes with a list of resources for further study that can be found on the gurteen.com website.

Topics covered:

An introduction to knowledge networking
Personal knowledge management
How to knowledge network
The Knowledge Café
Learning before, during and after
Conversation and telling stories
Using knowledge logs and other social tools
What next - taking action

The Facilitator: David Gurteen
David Gurteen has over 30 years’ experience working in high technology industries and has worked as an independent consultant for the last decade. He is an avid networker, speaker, facilitator and coach and regularly presents on various aspects of knowledge management and personal learning. He is well known for his knowledge cafés that bring people together to have open conversations about subjects that matter. He is the founder of the Gurteen Knowledge Community - a global learning network of over 13,000 people in 145 countries. The community is for people who are committed to making a difference: people who wish to share and learn from each other and who strive to see the world differently, think differently and act differently.