empowerment

We are still in the knowledge age: are we meeting the needs of knowledge workers?

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I first got involved in the discipline of Knowledge Management about 15 years ago, so it’s very refreshing to revisit the basics and check on what I might have missed or forgotten along the way.  This is why I’m reading Melissie Clemmons Rumizen’s “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Knowledge Management.”  It’s a very good book. …

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Powerful quotes for strong performing (effective) teams

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Followers of my blogs will know that I have been reading Stephen Covey’s “The 8th Habit” and have found it very inspirational both from a personal perspective, and for the various ways in which I help teams become a strong foundation for their organisations. I particularly liked the following quotes which Covey includes in his …

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(Project) leaders empower, (project) managers organise

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When I work with project teams, they often have both project leader and manager roles, but are unclear about their respective roles; or have only the one role, and miss out some of the vital responsibilities. In my continued reading of Stephen Covey’s 8th Habit, I find that he and his team have done some …

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Social networking tools, empowerment and knowledge management

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Writing blogs is a new experience for me and as such an exciting new toy for expressing my ideas and inviting reactions from others. First Stephen Covey (The 8th Habit), and today an article in The Times, have brought home to me the significant difference that the internet and social networking tools are making to …

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Is the key to empowerment to adopt a self-employed attitude?

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One of the preoccupations in large organisations is how to encourage individuals to be more ‘self-empowered’.  In the words of one of my HR colleagues, it can become a bit of an oxymoron if employees choose not to be, whilst employers are telling them to be… Having started on my journey of being self-employed whilst …

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