Recently I hosted a
webinar on using Knowledge Management for Training Content Curation. One way to handle the ever-present
knowledge overload in in the training
industry, is to use curation. In his
book Curation Nation, Steven Rosenbaum says “Curation replaces noise with
clarity. And it’s the clarity of your choosing; it’s the things that people you
trust help you find.” Curation is a
necessary skill for Learning and Development professionals to master and
utilize.
Curating your
content involves intentional reviewing and indexing of the knowledge elements
included in your training courses. Curation refreshes the training content
being presented, evaluates the validity and effectiveness of the training
knowledge asset, and disposes of content that is no longer current or correct.
How can you make curation a regular routine in your training management
portfolio?
Knowledge Management
Governance includes the rules around managing your knowledge base. Who is
responsible for assets? Where are the assets stored? How often is the knowledge
assessed and rated for use? Taking it one
step further, a knowledge management governance plan can provide the discipline
needed to ensure regular content curation.
Think of every training element as a knowledge asset that needs care and
feeding to remain part of your training.
In Training, regular
knowledge curation serves to ensure training remains current, correct and
fresh. Here is the KM Governance for
Training Knowledge Curation.
During my webinar, a
Training Scorecard was proposed as another strategy for maintaining fresh
training. I'll post links to this method as soon as I find out more about it.
Manually keeping
training current can be overwhelming due to the overload of explicit knowledge
available. To help with this, I also
spoke about using online tools to have knowledge automatically sent to you
based on your interests.
Here are the ones I
shared:
What do you think
about this topic? Do you have any
suggestions for keeping your training fresh?
Please comment and
let me know
