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Open Gurteen Knowledge Cafe in Oslo

Gurteen Knowledge Cafe (8th May 2008)

  





Event Type

Gurteen Community Cafes

Organizer

StatoilHydro and Norsk Dataforening KM Forum

Dates

08 May 2008

Location

Oslo, Norway

Who can Attend

Public

Admission

Free

David Gurteen

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Categories

Knowledge Management

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If you would like to attend this event could you please register here. The event is free. Click the button and complete the pop-up form.

Date: Thurday 8th May 2008 6:00pm - 8:30pm. Please arrive at 6:00pm or shortly after which will give you time to settle in and meet other people. Refreshments will be available. The cafe itself will start at 6:30pm. For those interested we normally go for a drink at a local pub after the event.

Theme: "What are the barriers to knowledge sharing and how can you overcome them?

Host: StatoilHydro and Norsk Dataforening - Knowledge Management Forum

Venue: CIBER Norge AS, Stortorvet 10, Postboks 417 Sentrum

The Gurteen Knowledge Cafe
David has run hundreds of Knowledge Cafes around the world in the last few years in cities such as Moscow, Washington DC, Phoenix Arizona, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Bangkok, Sydney, San Jose and Stavanger in Norway.

An open Knowledge Café is free and open to anyone interested in knowledge management. They are great social learning and networking events. Participants engage with the theme of the evening and some insightful, energetic conversations take place.

Better still the Knowledge Café process is one that you can take back with you and use in your own organizations to help create a more collaborative and innovative culture.

What is a Gurteen Knowledge Café?
A Knowledge Cafe is a means of bringing a group of people together to have an open, creative conversation on a topic of mutual interest to surface their collective knowledge, to share ideas and insights and to gain a deeper understanding of the subject and the issues involved.

This ultimately, leads to action in the form of better decision making and innovation and thus tangible business outcomes.
During the Knowledge Café, David will
  • Talk about the role of conversation & dialogue in business
  • Describe the background, purpose & benefits of the Knowledge Cafe
  • Explain the Gurteen Knowledge Cafe process
He will then facilitate a Knowledge Cafe on the theme “What are the barriers to knowledge sharing within our organizations and how do we overcome them?”

The Knowledge Cafe Philosophy
Most people are not inclined to share their knowledge freely for numerous reasons. These include: the attitude that knowledge is power, a silo-mentality, a lack of time, lack of confidence, lack of trust and no perceived benefit - the list at times seems endless.

But clearly today, "sharing knowledge is power". To achieve anything in this highly competitive wired world we need to work with people more than ever: to share with them; to learn from each other and to collaborate.

However, you cannot mandate people to share. You cannot even teach them to share. People need to see the problems of not sharing and the benefits of collaboration for themselves. If they truly buy into the fact that “knowledge sharing is power” then they will overcome the barriers for themselves.

An open Gurteen Knowledge Cafe brings people together to talk openly about "knowledge sharing"; to identify the barriers and how to overcome them. The participants learn to see the subject in a new light - to better understand other people's perspectives and indeed their own. And to better understand the issues. Better understanding in turn paves the way for personal change and in its turn organizational change.

This is just one application of the Cafe process. Other applications include
  • gain improved understanding of a complex issue
  • to get buy-in for a new initiative
  • flush out problems and issues in a department or project especially ones of lack of communication that can then be acted on and resolved
  • help build consensus around a proposed plan of action
  • improve the way that people work together by gaining a deeper understanding of each others perspectives on issues
  • jointly develop a policy document e.g. a code of practice (done in conjunction with say a wiki)
  • a tacit transfer mechanism between young and retiring workers
  • more widely share individual expertise
  • help merge two cultures after a take-over
  • improve inter-personal relationship and thus ability to work together effectively
If you would like to attend this event could you please register here. The event is free. Click the button and complete the pop-up form.




Video: Sydney Harbour Knowledge Cafe



On 25th October 2007 I ran a Knowledge Cafe in Sydney. It was hosted by Annalie Killian of AMP on the 25th Floor of their building overlooking Sydney Harbour.

The Cafe was on the theme "What will be the impact of Social Tools within Organizations?" which I co-facilitated with Helen Paige who is regional director of the Gurteen Knowledge Community in Adelaide. About 70 people attended. It was a grat evening.

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