{"id":90,"date":"2017-06-21T16:30:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T16:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inknowin.com\/wordpress\/?p=90"},"modified":"2017-06-21T16:30:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T16:30:06","slug":"a-knovember-to-remember-conversations-and-knowledge-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/inknowin.com\/wordpress\/2017\/06\/21\/a-knovember-to-remember-conversations-and-knowledge-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"A Knovember to Remember\u2026.. Conversations and Knowledge Cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_37\" style=\"width: 1158px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37\" src=\"http:\/\/inknowin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nancy-Dixon-and-Dave-Gurteen.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1148\" height=\"439\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-37\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With Nancy Dixon, David Gurteen at KM Asia 13.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In this blog let me focus on Conversations and Knowledge Cafe\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Some background: I am not a huge fan of conversations as a KM Tool! This is perhaps because of my conditioning in Sales and Business Development for most of my career.\u00a0 The \u2018Lets Get on with the job\u2019 attitude and \u2018Let\u2019s keep correcting things as we move along\u2019 makes it difficult to accept that there is another way. Also, I guess I had a lot of misconceptions about the tools. KM Asia 2013 was the place where I interacted closely with Nancy Dixon and David Gurteen. So, I have just started to understand the role of these tools in Knowledge Sharing. My take-aways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Nancy Dixon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nancydixonblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nancy Dixon<\/a>: As the co-chair, Nancy introduced an interesting twist at the end of every Presentation. Instead of the standard Q&amp;A, she triggered a 4-5 minute conversation at the tables, on the presentation. Thereafter each table had to summarize their key insights or confusions. This was novel! The feedback from participants was that this conversation them realize that sometimes they were not alone in their conflicts- others too had similar confusions; different viewpoints enriched their action points, since it came from the secure environment of fellow practitioners, who were seekers like themselves.<br \/>\nI saw firsthand how conversations in a relatively secure environment enriched the experience of the participants.<br \/>\nWhat I realized was that these conversations helped people to \u2018personalize\u2019 their learnings according to their contexts, which might not have happened so consistently had it been the usual Q&amp;A after each presentation. In essence a critical part of any learning event is taking the time to reflect on the insights we have developed with others. We learn the most when we first think through our own insights and then gain new perspectives on that learning from others<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"David Gurteen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gurteen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Gurteen<\/a> is a \u2018household\u2019 name in the field of KM. He is synonymous with \u2018Knowledge Cafe\u2019s\u2019 that he has created and perfected.<br \/>\nI first ran into David at KM Asia many years ago and attended his \u2018Speed Dating\u2019 Knowledge Cafe in Bangalore at the KM India Summit a couple of years back. It was an innovation he had to come up with given the paucity of time. The India MAKE winners were given different corners of the room. The audience was split into an equal number of groups as MAKE winners. Each group had 5 minutes with a MAKE Winner. Thereafter they rotated to the next. In the 5 Minutes, the MAKE Winner had to do a 2 Minute \u2018Elevator Pitch\u2019 to the audience. This was followed by 3 minutes of Q&amp;A. At the end everyone agreed that they gained more from this exercise than had it been the normal MAKE Presentations and Q&amp;A.At KM Asia 2013, David Gurteen innovated once more. He presented a short video clip and then conducted a Knowledge Cafe in the traditional manner- smaller groups initially, followed by single group sharing! It helped that he chose a controversial topic \u2018Rewards destroy Motivation\u2019 which created instant polarization. At the end of the Knowledge Cafe I saw participants taking on board others viewpoints and while consensus was not reached (that was never the objective), each one was enriched by the variety of viewpoints.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So through the experience with Nancy and David I realize that quite often \u2018<a title=\"Conversation Matters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nancydixonblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Conversation Matters<\/a>\u2019\u00a0especially if it is a <a title=\"Knowledge Cafe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gurteen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Knowledge Cafe<\/a>\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-90\" data-postid=\"90\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-90 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\n\n\t<\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this blog let me focus on Conversations and Knowledge Cafe\u2019s. Some background: I am not a huge fan of conversations as a KM Tool! 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