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Knowledge Management: Add Project Management To the Process

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Knowledge management is the process of organizing, using, and sharing knowledge within the organization. According to IBM, there are three types of knowledge: tacit, implicit, and explicit. Tacit knowledge is acquired through experience. Keynote speaker Michael Kannisto, Ph.D.

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5 ways to strengthen your onboarding and boost ‘time-to-productivity’

HRExecutive

They not only need to learn their role, but also need to become familiar with your organization’s culture and understand how their work fits within the bigger picture of the business. New hires need time. Why time-to-productivity matters The risks of rushing employee onboarding —or dragging it out—are greater than many people might imagine.

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7 Reasons HR Needs to Learn About Unretirement

HR Bartender

Knowledge Management : Retaining workers, even in a part-time or contingent status, allows the organization to retain knowledge. Learning and Development : Speaking of knowledge management, organizations might find it beneficial to create short peer based training programs as a way to pass along skills and knowledge.

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How to capture institutional knowledge

Insperity

When your employees stay in the same role for extended periods, they accrue institutional knowledge – or information and understanding about the systems, relationships and tactics that make your company run optimally. What is institutional knowledge? Scenarios like these may point to the institutional knowledge that you hold.

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Microlearning: 5 Reasons Your Company Should Consider It

HR Bartender

There are many different types of learning: social learning, mobile learning, and elearning are just a few. A relatively new type of learning that’s attracting attention is microlearning. Think of it as small learning units or bite sized pieces of content. People are using short videos to learn all the time.

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The Great Generational Shift: How Employers and Managers Can Prepare

Everwise

As the aging Baby Boomers exit the workforce, they will take with them a great deal of skill, knowledge, wisdom, institutional memory, relationships, and the last vestiges of the old-fashioned work ethic. The workforce is aging on one end of the spectrum and getting younger on the other. What Does the Generational Shift Mean for Employers?

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Improving the Employee Experience with Better Technology

Cornerstone On Demand

Enter: knowledge management technology—organizational systems that enable companies to share different types of resources, such as learning content , both internally and externally. Millennials in particular—who make up the largest generation of workers today—expect to work with technology that feels natural to them.