Archive for May, 2006

Blogs that talk mostly about knowledge management

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —May 22, 2006
Filed in News

If you want to see a bunch of knowledge management blog content in one space, here is a blog aggregator site called Blogdigger.

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We will work harder to find good news

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —May 19, 2006
Filed in Communication, News

Bad news travels fast and some argue that we learn best from our mistakes, but psychological research shows we will work harder, or a least …

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A simple training needs assessment

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —May 18, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling, Collaboration

Susan Heathfield suggests a facilitated process to conduct a simple training needs assessment. The basic steps to Susan’s approach look like this (she explains them …

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Intervention design – an example

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —May 16, 2006
Filed in Anecdotes

I’m always on the lookout for intervention design examples and I found one last week I think you’ll like. But before I describe it, remember …

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Free management book reviews

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —May 15, 2006
Filed in News

Bill Godfrey has made all his book reviews available online for free and is hoping to attract other book review writers to develop a truly …

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Open letter to CXO’s

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —May 14, 2006
Filed in Culture

Pam Slim writes a refreshing and forthright post slamming common management practice. I particularly like her take on culture: Corporate culture is a natural thing that …

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Hexies Post-it Notes are Better

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —May 12, 2006
Filed in Employee Engagement

One of the narrative techniques we use involves identifying the characters, topics and behaviours from a collection of transcribed anecdotes. This process usually involves groups writing …

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The meme of control

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —May 12, 2006
Filed in Communication, Culture

Thinking over how pervasive (and problematic?) the notion of control appears to be in organisations I was inspired to write a little piece around it. Here’s …

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Open Space Training in Melbourne

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —May 12, 2006
Filed in Events

Viv McWaters and Brian Bainbridge are running their marvelous Open Space training next week 16th – 18th here in Melbourne. As Viv says: You’ve heard …

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SNA Sensemaking

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —May 11, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

Social Network Analysis has spent alot of its evolution and development down in the weeds where the expert has been king. Crunching and analysing. Not …

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