Gurteen Knowledge Events: Global

3rd Annual Global Learning Summit

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:47:08 +0000

Date: 03 - 05 Mar 2010
Organizer: Salvo Global
Location: Singapore City, Singapore

The 3rd Annual Global Learning Summit 2010 brings together talent leaders from a variety of industries to discuss pressing concerns and successes about how learning drives business in these uncertain times. This event is highly interactive, providing opportunity to engage with practitioners who are advancing business results with less training costs with their learning strategies and practices.

Interested to participate, please go to http://www.salvoglobal.com/globallearningsummit/enquire.asp for more information!

For priority booking, please quote priority code VHG026

5th Knowledge Management International Conference

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:42:37 +0100

Date: 25 - 27 May 2010
Organizer: College of Arts & Sciences, Universiti Utara Malaysia
Location: Terengganu, Malaysia

Realizing its importance, Knowledge Management International Conference (KMICe) will once again provide a platform for international presentation of research findings as well as discussions and sharing of recent advances in the field. This conference will bring together leading researchers and developers in a wide variety of areas, with a common interest in improving the state of the art of knowledge management (KM). This conference will also bring together people from the academia and industry to establish closer cooperation and ties, and creation of K-based society.

Bristol Gurteen Knowledge Cafe: Language and leadership

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:42:03 +0000

Date: 26 Nov 2009
Organizer: Ed Mitchell
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom

Bristol knowledge cafe on the subject of 'language and leadership'.

Community Building Workshop

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:37:12 +0100

Date: 16 - 18 Oct 2009
Organizer: Community Building
Location: London, United Kingdom

If you are interested in personal growth and have longed for more authenticity in yourself and in your relationships with others— this empowering workshop is for you.

Meeting together will give you the opportunity to learn the principles and stages of, what M. Scott Peck calls, community building. Through observation and participation, you will be challenged to:

·       Communicate with authenticity

·       Deal with difficult issues

·       Welcome and affirm diversity

·       Bridge differences with integrity

·       Relate with compassion and respect

Cost £49

David Gurteen's KM Unworkshop

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:42:41 +0100

Date: 05 Nov 2009
Organizer: Ark Group
Location: London, United Kingdom

David Gurteen will be facilitating this KM Unworkshop. But what is an Unworkshop?

This is a workshop with a difference. Like the concept of the unconference where the content of the sessions is driven and created by the participants, this is an unworkshop where within the theme of the day you get to determine what is discussed.

The purpose of this unworkshop is to bring people together in order that you may learn from each other; improve your performance and become more effective in your jobs.

It is not just about learning in the traditional sense but about gaining support and inspiration from each other and building confidence to tackle often seemingly insurmountable challenges.

The KM Unworkshop aims to bring together people who:

Are like-minded but from diverse industries
Are looking to share their knowledge
Wish to learn from each other
Would like to support and motivate each other
Are looking for inspiration and who wish to think more imaginatively
Have a burning desire to make a difference in their organizations

The workshop will focus on the participant’s problems, challenges and needs. It will be about 'action' - on getting things done - on 'business outcomes' - on the practical and pragmatic - not the theoretical.

Implementing a Knowledge Cafe

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:39:50 +0100

Date: 09 Dec 2009
Organizer: Ark Group
Location: London, United Kingdom

A one-day masterclass designed to help you:

Understand the importance of conversation in your business
Design and run Knowledge Caf�s
Use Knowledge Caf�s to solve specific business problems and challenges
Create opportunities in your organisation for creative conversation

Knowledge sharing is a key issue for business success but real knowledge sharing requires an open mindset and continues to be a challenge for many companies. One way of energizing an organisation to achieve real knowledge-sharing benefits is the use of Knowledge Caf�s. A Knowledge Caf� is a face-to-face meeting, providing an effective vehicle for opening up discussions that lead to sharing. It can be employed as a tool to share tacit knowledge used within teams or Communities of Practice to question entrenched assumptions, help facilitate learning from others and gain a deeper, collective understanding of a subject through conversation.

It is not just about talking and networking, though these are secondary benefits, but allowing people to engage each other in "dialogue" with the aim of learning from each other rather than entering into unproductive debate and attempting to impose their views on the other which invariably end in failure and frustration.

Specifically, a Knowledge Caf� can it can be your easy, low cost way to make knowledge sharing work for your organisation by:

gaining buy-in for a new initiative
acquiring improved understanding of a complex issue
improving the way that people work together by gaining a deeper understanding of each others perspectives on issues
enabling a tacit transfer mechanism between young and retiring workers
facilitating the merge of two cultures after a take

In this workshop, you will get to understand the fundamental principals and benefits of the Knowledge Caf� process. You will go on to participate in a Knowledge Caf�, experience the benefits first hand and reflect and discuss your experience.

The workshop is designed for anyone who is involved in developing a knowledge-sharing or more innovative culture within their organisation. You don’t need to be a professional facilitator but book today and you will leave the workshop understanding the power of the knowledge sharing and with the techniques to run to one.

KC UK 2010

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:27:38 +0100

Date: 15 - 16 Jun 2010
Organizer: Ark Group
Location: London, United Kingdom

KCUK is an annual meeting place for knowledge, content and online-information managers from across Europe . If you could benefit from drawing on all this expertise, exchanging lessons learned, gaining new ideas and inspiration and networking with your peers from across the region then you should attend.

KMO 2010 Fifth International KMO Conference

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:12:41 +0100

Date: 18 - 19 May 2010
Organizer:
Location: Veszpr�m, Hungary

Knowledge is increasingly recognized as the most important resource in organizations and a key differentiating factor in business today. It is increasingly being acknowledged that Knowledge Management (KM) can bring about the much needed innovation and improved business performance in organisations.

Knowledge management plays a crucial role in the development of sustainable competitive advantage through innovation whether in products or services.� Although much has been written about product innovations, there is very little research in service innovation. The service sector now dominates the economies of the developed world. Service innovation is fast becoming the key driver of socio-economic, academic and commercial research attention. �

One of the main drivers that shapes services and service organizations is the increasing intensity of knowledge in services, and the impact of information and communication (ICT) technologies on them. Because knowledge in knowledge-intensive services is typically located in product, service or both, it is important to collect, store, modify, update and distribute it in a way that would provide value for the clients.�

Understanding knowledge as a key resource for innovation can be seen as a knowledge management problem. Although there are several perspectives on Knowledge Management, they all share the same core components, namely: People, Processes and Technology. Some take a techno-centric focus, in order to enhance knowledge integration and creation; others adopt an organizational focus, in order to optimize organization design and workflows. Many take an ecological focus, where the important aspects are related to people interaction, knowledge and environmental factors as a complex adaptive system similar to a natural ecosystem.

The fifth International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations (KMO) aims at providing an international forum for authors to present and discuss research focused on the role of knowledge management for innovative solutions in industries, as well as to shed light on recent advances in knowledge-intensive service systems for organizations. The scientific objective of the conference is to identify challenging problems on the role of knowledge management on designing innovative product service systems, as well as to identify future directions research for the role of knowledge management in service innovation in academia and industrial sectors.

This conference calls for papers that offer provocative, insightful, and novel ways of developing�� innovative� systems through� a better understanding of the role that knowledge management� plays.

Scientist Knowledge Translation Training

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:15:38 +0000

Date: 11 - 12 Jan 2010
Organizer: Learning Institute, Hospital for Sick Children
Location: Toronto, Canada

Do Your Scientists, Educators, Policy and Decision Makers Know How to Transfer Knowledge?

Could Your Knowledge Translation Professionals benefit from Practical KT Training?

Do They Understand Why Knowledge Transfer is Important?

Do They Have Skills To Play A Role in Linking with Business, Community, and Policy?

OVERVIEW: A well-developed knowledge translation/transfer (KT) plan is emerging as a requirement for health research globally, and there is greater attention to research utilization and research impact in many aspects of health practice and research. The SKTT� training course was developed on the premise that scientists, clinicians, and KT professionals are agents of change in creating research impact, promoting research utilization, and ensuring research findings reach the appropriate audiences for optimal impact. There is a skill set surrounding KT practice, and it is these competencies that the course was designed to impart.

AUDIENCE: The Scientist Knowledge Translation Training (SKTT) course is intended for health science researchers across all four scientific pillars (basic, clinical, health services, population health), who have an interest in sharing research knowledge with (multiple) audiences beyond the traditional academic community, as appropriate, and in increasing the impact potential of their research. The course is equally suited to KT professionals, researchers in disciplines other than health, practitioners, educators, and decision makers in community based organizations and government. The material is universally applicable across sectors, job roles, and geographic location.

CONTENT: This is a very practice-oriented course that covers:
1. Utility of KT, for researchers, educators, clinician-scientists
2. KT strategies and their evidence base
3. Developing a KT plan (practical, hands-on approach with tools)
4. Plain language communication
5. Communicating with media
6. Communicating with policy makers

A curriculum overview can be found at http://www.melaniebarwick.com/training.php

The next offering is in Toronto Canada. Additionally, arrangements can be made to bring the course to your location by request.