Empowering Managers, Generating Ideas & Building a Sense of Community Knowledge Café in Taiwan

I was delighted to receive the following email recently. Take a look at the video the author mentions.  The recording was made at a KM conference in Hong Kong 16 years ago and does a great job of capturing the engagement and energy of a face-to-face Knowledge Café.

The groups are a little larger than the 3 to 4 people I usually recommend, but in this case, it seemed to add energy to the conversations.

Dear David,

I’m looking forward to attending the Café next week. Thank you for the invitation. I’m in charge of Learning and Development within HR at xxx in Taiwan.

I was introduced to the Knowledge Café concept only two months ago by a senior colleague and have spent hours studying videos of your previous session (especially the session in Hong Kong) and following the detailed instructions on your website.

We have been looking for a way to empower our middle management, generate ideas and build a sense of community. We are so glad we discovered the Café concept. We ran our first café last month for all our managers in the organization.

The concept is flawless and met all our needs. It’s been one of the best activities I’ve facilitated and your instructions made it effortless for the facilitator.

We have made it a quarterly event in our learning calendar. I just wanted to thank you for kindly sharing this concept. Have a wonderful day and see you next week!