Gurteen Knowledge Blog March 22, 2024, 10:50In most conferences and seminars, the audience passively listens to speakers without a chance to discuss insights together. But with one simple tweak, you can transform any talk into a conversational experience. Rather than a one-way information download, allot 5 or 10 minutes for attendees to reflect on your main … Continue reading Conversational Presentations Making talks conversational with one simple tweak
The Huawei Break the Book Community is a Reading Group Café – a simple but powerful example of peer learning that has much in keeping with the principles of the Knowledge Café. In November 2015, I gave a talk at KM Asia (a large annual Knowledge Management conference) on Conversational Leadership in Hong Kong. One of my fellow … Continue reading The Huawei Break the Book Community A powerful example of peer learning
Flipped teaching reverses, or “flips”, traditional in-class lectures and homework. Students watch the teacher’s prerecorded lecture at home, and in-class time is used for students to test their skills, apply their knowledge, and interact through hands-on projects, discussions, and exercises. Traditional lectures such as the one below can be sleep-inducing or worse: Boring Economics teacher … Continue reading Flipped Teaching Speech is a bad medium for communicating information – so watch lectures at home
Traditional learning often lacks the ongoing skill-building and problem-solving needed in a changing workplace. Peer learning addresses this through collaboration and reflection to develop new skills. Peer learning is a collaborative approach to learning where individuals learn from and with each other. It’s based on the idea that we can often learn more effectively by … Continue reading Peer Learning Unlocking collective wisdom