Knowledge Management: 9 Recommendations

from Harvard Professor Chris Myers about Vicarious Learning

If there’s one thing that you can do to boost both the performance and creativity of your team, it is encouraging knowledge sharing and effective learning in your organization.

We interviewed Harvard Business School Professor Chris Myers. He explained

his research and explained to what extent implementing vicarious learning can benefit your organization.

Start implementing today the 9 ideas that Chris Myers shared about

knowledge management and effective teamwork.

1.

Leaders should encourage more vicarious learning — learning from someone else’s experience.

2.

The three stages of vicarious learning:

1. Enabling: creating an environment where interactions are likely to occur

2. Enacting: interacting and exchanging experiences with your team

3. Elaborating: analyzing what you listened to and connecting it with your previous knowledge

3.

You can learn a lot by looking at

what’s happening beyond your industry.

4.

Design your workplace in a way

that makes interactions occur naturally.

Vicarious learning is more effective

when it’s driven by your employees.

5.

Boost your creativity

by exploring new things - books, music, hobbies, and other activities.

6.

Use technology to create

person-to-person interactions instead of person-to-information interactions.

7.

Discuss your employees’ failures as learning points

for the whole team.

8.

Encourage all your team members

to openly share their failures instead of being ashamed of them.

(Read more: 9 Leadership Ideas from Rein Lemberpuu)

9.

Support continuous learning into

the culture of your organization.

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