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Sunday, March 24, 2019

Using Knowledge Management Governance for Training Content Curation

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presented, evaluates the validity and effectiveness of the training knowledge asset, and disposes of content that is no longer current or correct.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