Knowledge management is important because it boosts the efficiency of an organization’s decision-making ability. In making sure that all employees have access to the overall expertise held within the organization, a smarter workforce is built that is more able to make quick, informed decisions that benefit the company. Innovation is easier to foster within the organization, customers benefit from increased access to best practices and employee turnover is reduced.
The importance of knowledge management is growing every year. As the marketplace becomes ever more competitive, one of the best ways to stay ahead of the curve is to build your organization in an intelligent, flexible manner. You want to be able to spot issues from a distance and respond quickly to new information and innovations.
The purpose behind knowledge management is to help us bridge organizational gaps and to use our greatest asset (our knowledge) to take our business performance to the next level. The theory of knowledge management has emerged to help us harness and enhance both the individual and collective brainpower of our businesses. This course will introduce you to knowledge management tips, techniques, and proven processes.
- Advocate for effective knowledge sharing
- Foster an enabling environment within your own organisation that encourages knowledge sharing
- Create a culture of sharing
- Develop a ‘learning organisation’
- Motivate employees positively to be team players
- Create a culture of sharing
- Develop a ‘learning organisation’
- Motivate employees positively to be team players
- Conduct a knowledge management assessment of your organisation
- Develop a knowledge management strategy to institutionalise KM practices within your organisation
- Apply knowledge sharing tools and techniques in practice
- HR directors -Heads of HR functions- HR business partners
- Senior HR executives, managers, advisors and officers who wish to contribute to the development and implementation of HR strategy.
- Chief officers, Chairpersons, Board members, Company directors, Heads of Departments, and all those at the highest levels of an organisation interested in developing an in-depth knowledge of strategic HRM.
- This course is relevant for professionals engaged in information and knowledge management, change management, project and program planning, M&E and learning, communications, and organizational development. No prior Knowledge Management experience is needed.