Category Archives: Training and learning

Fishbowls and change cafes in Liverpool

It’s a wrap… Some photos from the CILIP conference in Liverpool. Hank Malik and I ran a fishbowl conversation on trust and psychological safety, a knowledge café on change management and co-hosted two “lightning round” sessions on the IFLA map … Continue reading

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Learning from the past

Should all knowledge workers and leaders learn poker? I recently listened to “Future You”, part of this series about thinking by Prof Steven Pinker, expecting something useful for my New Year’s resolutions. In fact, it was primarily about future discounting … Continue reading

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Lunch ‘n’ learns for virtual teams – a dozen ideas

A very common updating and learning tool in law firms, is the lunch n learn, but how can we make virtual lunch n learns more compelling? I’ve been asking various PSLs, KMers and law firm leaders what they’re doing to … Continue reading

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Books!

I’m often asked for book recommendations … So here are two good ones – reasonably priced, theoretically sound, practical and easy to read. If you are new-ish to KM or have never had any formal training, you might enjoy “Knowledge … Continue reading

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Fantastic value webinars

At the Knowledge and Information Management group at CILIP (of which I’m Chair) we’ve got some fantastic value webinars coming up which might be of interest to you, whether you are a CILIP person or not. The theme for the … Continue reading

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Learning, unlearning and new learning

Whilst we think a lot about creation of new knowledge in KM – learning from experiences, learning from databases, learning from each other – one thing we talk less about is the need for unlearning as well. People, especially experienced … Continue reading

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It’s what you learn ….

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Life after life

My bookclub (my fiction club, not my knowledge & learning club) is reading “Life After Life” by Kate Atkinson. If you don’t mind some spoilers, there is a great discussion on the BBC World Book Club here. And last night … Continue reading

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Another year gone?!

With a *snap* another year is gone! I just can’t believe how quickly it all goes. We had our last book club discussion for the 2019 group today. I know it’s no longer 2019, but we decided finishing a book … Continue reading

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KNUK is open for 2020! And now global!!!

(I think that deserved a few “!!”) I’ve been running some learning, knowledge sharing and networking groups for KMers in UK now for about 5 years. It was important to me to offer these as in-person experiences, with quality training … Continue reading

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