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Blog Post: Upcoming Events

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:14:40 +0100

By David Gurteen

Here are some of the major KM events taking place around the world in the coming months and ones in which I am actively involved. You will find a full list on my website where you can also subscribe to both regional e-mail alerts and RSS feeds which will keep you informed of new and upcoming events.

Knowledge Café: Facilitér effektiv videndeling i din organisation
04 Jun 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark

David Gurteens Kunnskap Café
20 Jun 2013, Oslo, Norway

KM UK 2013
26 - 27 Jun 2013, London, United Kingdom
I will be speaking at KM UK again this year.

KM Australia Congress 2013
23 - 25 Jul 2013, Sydney, Australia
This will be a conversational event once again this year.

14th European Conference on Knowledge Management
05 - 06 Sep 2013, Kaunas, Lithuania

International Conference on Knowledge Economy icke2013
28 - 30 Oct 2013, Cape Town, South Africa

The 8th International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM 2013)
01 - 02 Nov 2013, Montréal, Canada

KMWorld 2013
06 - 08 Nov 2013, Washington DC, United States

Event: Knowledge Caf�: Facilit�r effektiv videndeling i din organisation, 04 Jun 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:59:17 +0100

Link: Gurteen Knowledge
Date: 04 Jun 2013
Organizer: VidenDanmark Akademi
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

En Knowledge Café er efterh�nden et kendt begreb - m�ske skal vi overs�tte det til en videncafé. Hvad de f�rreste nok er bekendt med, er at det er David Gurteen, der st�r bag konceptet, at der faktisk findes et h�ndfast koncept, som er overordentlig velegnet til at fremme videndelingen i en organisation.

VidenDanmark har indg�et en samarbejde med Gurteen Knowledge (David Gurteen). Derfor har vi en enest�ende mulighed for at f� David Gurteen til Danmark, hvor han vil gennemf�re en temadag / workshop / Master Class om, hvordan man gennemf�rer en 'Knowledge Café' i sin egen organisation.

En Knowledge Café er et v�rkt�j, der er velegnet til at hj�lpe organisationer eller en gruppe af mennesker til at dele deres tavse viden. Den kan anvendes i teams, i praksisf�llesskaber, p� tv�rs af siloer i organisationer, og leder deltagerne til en dybere forst�else af deres f�lles m�l og muligheder. Det f�rer til bedre beslutninger, til nye m�der af arbejde og samarbejde p� og til innovation.

G� ikke glip af denne enest�ende mulighed for at l�re konceptet at kende ved mesteren selv, David Gurteen.

Gurteen Knowledge Cafe: SMARTlab at the University of East London	Knowledge Cafés as KM Tools. KM India 2010	Gurteen Knowledge Cafe at KMPAP 2006 in Hong Kong
Introduction to the Knowledge Cafe, Greenwich 2006	KM Egypt, Cairo, 2010	About the Gurteen Knowledge Cafe, 2009

Event: Social Learning Centre: Summer Camp and London Picnic, 17 Jun - 12 May 2013, United Kingdom

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:52:47 +0100

Link: Gurteen Knowledge
Date: 17 Jun - 12 May 2013
Organizer: Harold Jarche & Jane Hart
Location: United Kingdom

Jane Hart and Harold Jarche will be hosting a picnic to launch their Summer Camp, for the Social Learning Centre.

This will summarize the six workshops conducted over the past year, on subjects of personal knowledge management, community management, and social learning in business, among others.

The picnic will start in a London park on 20 June (location to be announced) and will include a chance to really "walk the talk".

Quotation: Individuals expect and demand a voice in decisions that affect their lives by Daniel Yankelovich

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:43:28 +0100

Link: Gurteen Knowledge

Today, cultural and legal changes mean that individuals expect and demand a voice in decisions that affect their lives and often they have the power to undermine those decisions if they aren't allow their voice.

Book: The Magic of Dialogue (1999) by Daniel Yankelovich

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:41:50 +0100

Link: Gurteen Knowledge

In "The Magic of Dialogue," famed social scientist Daniel Yankelovich does more than revive the ancient art of dialogue; he reinvents it in a brief, practical form that suits our times. Drawing on decades of research, he offers a method that will help managers, leaders, businesspeople, and other professionals succeed in the new economy. By helping them to master the communication skills needed to conduct dialogue successfully, he shows how the discipline of dialogue can make them more effective managers, strengthen relationships, resolve problems, and achieve shared objectives.

Our new global economy is a world of exploding diversity, merging corporate cultures, and eroding top-down authority. More players participate in decision making than ever before. New circumstances and widely dispersed organizations with differences in interests and agendas oblige managers to make decisions in a climate of mistrust and misunderstanding. In this diverse and less hierarchical world, decision makers must learn to argue less and "dialogue" more.

Not just another form of conversation or discussion, dialogue is a specific skill to be acquired, a skill as important as the techniques of negotiation. Successfully practiced, it can produce extraordinary results.

Credit: Amazon

Media File: Banner Ad: Salvo Global’s 4th Annual Global Learning Academy 2013

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:24:58 +0100

Link: Gurteen Knowledge

Event: Knowledge Management Masterclass, 22 - 24 Oct 2013, Teresopolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Fri, 10 May 2013 10:04:25 +0100

Link: Gurteen Knowledge
Date: 22 - 24 Oct 2013
Organizer: semin�RIO
Location: Teresopolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Event: Salvo Global’s 4th Annual Global Learning Academy 2013, 10 - 12 Jun 2013, Johannesburg, South Africa

Fri, 10 May 2013 10:03:14 +0100

Link: Gurteen Knowledge
Date: 10 - 12 Jun 2013
Organizer: Salvo Global Singapore
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

Following the exceptional success of our conference for the past 3 years in South Africa, Salvo Global is proud to present our 4th Annual Global Learning Academy 2013 conference as part of our series of events dedicated to the L&D, Talent Management, & Leadership professionals in Africa. This conference will be held on 10th – 12th June 2013 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Featuring industry thought leaders from multiple industries and speakers from organizations such as Coca Cola, Anglo American, Unilever, Nedbank, Vodacom, Fluor, Airports Company of South Africa & Gold Fields, GLA 2013 provides the best platform for a vibrant discussion on all the latest developments within the L&D arena in Africa as well as across the globe!

Conference Themes & Highlights:
• Driving Business Value
• Engaging Employees
• Developing Leaders
• Ensuring Sustainability

Target Audience

This conference is a must attend for all Learning and Development Professionals, such as Chief Learning Officers (CLOs), Directors, Vice Presidents, Team Leaders, Heads, Senior Managers and Senior Executives from various areas.
For more information, please visit: http://salvoglobal.com/global-learning-academy/

Or contact Mr.Linc at: Email: linc.lin@salvoglobal.com | Tel: +65 6297 8545

Blog Post: There’s kids in here who don’t learn like that, they need to learn face-to-face.

Fri, 10 May 2013 09:11:59 +0100

By David Gurteen

You may well have seen this video as it has gone viral. In it, Jeff Bliss, a High School Student in Duncanville, Texas rants at his history teacher about her teaching methods after being kicked out of class. Here are a few things he says in the rant:

"If you would just get up and teach them instead of handing them a freaking packet, yo. There's kids in here who don't learn like that, they need to learn face-to-face."

”You want kids to come to class? You want them to get excited? You gotta come in here, you gotta make ‘em excited, to change him and make him better, you gotta touch his freakin' heart.”

Credit: The Huffington Post

And later in an interview he says this: "I want to see a teacher stand up and interact with the students, get involved, discuss, talk, question and dig deep into the subject.”

I was educated at a traditional boy's grammar school - most of the teaching was by "chalk and talk" delivered by crusty, aging, male school masters. Strangely, it was considered a good education at the time but one would have hoped that the world had moved on in 50 years since I was a boy.

If this teacher was really "teaching" her class by "handing them freaking packets" then surely that's a retrograde step.

If we are to stand any chance of saving our civilisation education must be transformed.

Original rant by Jeff Bliss in the classroom

Interview with Jeff Bliss

Tweets about "Duncanville High School student "

Event: Transformational Leadership and Change Management, 17 - 18 Jun 2013, Singapore, Singapore

Fri, 10 May 2013 06:23:11 +0100

Link: Gurteen Knowledge
Date: 17 - 18 Jun 2013
Organizer: Salvo
Location: Singapore, Singapore

About the event:

Ready to ooze charm, exude charisma & translate vision into reality?

In a global business environment in which change is the only constant, organizations need to respond to challenging conditions by reinventing themselves to meet the demands of the market economy.

The direct impact that this has on an organization’s ability to remain competent has led to Transformational Leadership and Change Management surfacing as one of the most pertinent business issues in Asia and globally. This is the cue for a new breed of leaders.

Join us in this exclusive 2-day Masterclass, which addresses critical issues relating to organizations’ need to respond to the unique challenges presented by the global business environment Attendees will benefit from a comprehensive overview of the role, competencies and behaviors of the transformational leader in managing change.

What you will learn:

1. Examine why transformational leadership and change management are essential to managers (and often even workers) today
2. Review models of change management and examine when and how they are used
3. Define such terms as manager, leader, transformational leader and change management
4. Describe the characteristics/skills associated with transformational leadership and change management
5. Summarize how ethics and values relate to transformational leadership and change management
6. Review categories of change, change management and transformational leadership and when each is appropriate to use
7. Describe how to transform managers into transformational leaders

About the trainer:

Identified as one of the three most recognizable names in the field of human resources by a market study in the U.S., your course leader has worked as a consultant with over 50 multinational corporations and consulted on Succession Planning and Management with a wide array of organizations in business, government and non-profit settings both in the US and internationally. Having worked in the Performance, OD and HR field since 1979, he has co-authored, edited and co-edited over 300 books, book chapters, articles and many bestsellers. One of his bestselling books is widely regarded as the “corporate bible” on succession management practices.

Quotation: On laughter and character by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:56:58 +0100

Link: Gurteen Knowledge

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Event: ePIC 2013, 08 - 10 Jul 2013, London, United Kingdom

Wed, 08 May 2013 10:01:30 +0100

Link: Gurteen Knowledge
Date: 08 - 10 Jul 2013
Organizer: ADPIOS
Location: London, United Kingdom

Open Badges and the launch of Europortfolio are central themes at this year's ePIC conference entitled "Open Me".

In particular, as ePortfolio and Open Badges are containers of personal data, what is their place in what some predict as the next big revolution: open personal data?

This international conference brings together experts to explore these current issues, whilst leading a path towards possible futures.

Book: Knowledge Management (18 Oct 2012) by Arnold Kransdorff

Wed, 08 May 2013 09:51:50 +0100

Link: Gurteen Knowledge

Conceived less than 20 years ago, Knowledge Management (KM) is the business discipline about which managers perhaps know the least. Having spent pots of money investing in it, the benefits are still marginal. This is because practitioners are still feeling their way. Now that the boom days are temporarily over, it is timely that KM can be more fully exploited, for it conceals an application that is indispensable for the foreseeable struggle ahead - and after, including an overlooked way out of the credit crash dilemma facing those dogmatic decision makers juggling the option between austerity and growth. It's not rocket science. It's a way of doing both, in this case by re-focusing on the old-fashioned notion of productivity implied by this book's Chapter 2 heading: Getting from A to B without going via Z. The journey to this solution is through the unacknowledged, iceberg-like and delinquent edge to the enthusiastically pursued flexible labor market, a workplace development that is proving to be among the most corrosive of components to good decision making. Whilst the ability to more easily hire 'n fire has allowed commerce and industry to more quickly refashion workforce numbers to suit changing market conditions and circumstances, the elevated level of employee churn, which was already high in more 'normal' times, has introduced accelerated conveyer-belt workplace discontinuity and associated corporate amnesia. These are modern phenomena that have prevented institutions from learning from their own hard-won and expensively paid-for experiences. The result? A never-ending recital of repeated mistakes, re-invented wheels and other unlearned lessons, the cost of which is significant. By any measure, the attendance of unremitting and poor employee determinations by employees on behalf of their employers signifies the matching forfeiture of their own special acquired 'wisdom' - and this book's title. By reducing the level of poor decision making in a clearly identifiable quarter of corporate dysfunction, employers will help to address the late Peter Drucker's declared crisis of productivity, his belief being that businesses and other types of organization are largely wasteful in their production. This book will outline how, through two misconceived and underexploited processes of KM, employers can learn to work more efficiently, even with high employee churn. The processes are the better management of their Organizational Memory (OM) and proper employer-instigated Experiential Learning, the use of which will also enable organizations to continue utilizing the experiences of employees after they have left their employer's employ. And by addressing the limitations of conventional approaches to decision making and Experiential Learning, this book takes KM to the next level with the biggest big-ticket application of all in today's economic quagmire. By way of repetition, productivity has a very, very close relationship with competitiveness and that elusive prize, growth.

Event: Resilient Knowledge Management Practice (Prof. Development Certificate), 12 - 16 Aug 2013, Slough, United Kingdom

Wed, 01 May 2013 10:39:48 +0100

Link: Gurteen Knowledge
Date: 12 - 16 Aug 2013
Organizer: David Griffiths K3-Cubed
Location: Slough, United Kingdom

Resilient Knowledge Management Practice (Prof. Development Certificate)

One week course 8/12/13 9AM - 8/16/13 4PM

For full curriculum details see http://www.kmeducation.com or register here or contact Dr. David Griffiths

Quotation: Ordinary people are able to participate in the grand human dialogue by Jimmy Wales

Wed, 01 May 2013 10:24:11 +0100

Link: Gurteen Knowledge

What is much more deeply political is the concept of Wikipedia, that ordinary people should be able to participate in the grand human dialogue.

It's a very subversive idea in a society that is top-down.

Event: Foundations of Action Learning, 29 - 30 May 2013, Bangkok, Thailand

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:53:28 +0100

Link: Gurteen Knowledge
Date: 29 - 30 May 2013
Organizer: WIAL Thailand
Location: Bangkok, Thailand

Foundations of Action Learning in Thailand

Learn how to solve your organization's problems, help your team develop their leadership skills, and create a powerful team dynamic all at the same time.

The most recent affiliate of WIAL, the WORLD INSTITUTE FOR ACTION LEARNING, is happy to announce the Foundations in Action Learning workshop in Bangkok on 29-30 May.

This workshop is for leaders and professionals interested in getting more out of their teams through a coaching approach, solving the organization's problems and developing their people's competencies.This 2 day program focuses on the principles behind Action Learning, and gives ample opportunity to all participants to play the role of coach, problem presenter or team member."

All participants receive a copy of the book "Optimizing the Power of Action Learning by Dr. Michael Marquardt (2011)"

Contact Peter Cauwelier, MD of WIAL Thailand, at peter.cauwelier@gmail.com for more information and a complete program.