Maximizing strategic learning value for program participants, long-time training partners SLA (Special Libraries Association) and SMR (St. Clair Management Resources) continue their relationship with a revised version of their popular KM/Knowledge Services Premium Program. Offered through SLA’s Click U, the program now matches SLA’s new emphasis, moving from last year’s theme of “Future Ready” to this year’s “Future Now,” providing strategic knowledge professionals with critical skills for moving their careers forward. Offered since 2008, the SLA-SMR KMKS Premium Program has been re-designed to connect participants with the now-established role of knowledge management, knowledge services, and knowledge strategy in the…
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At Soutron Global‘s recent roundtable discussions in New York and Toronto, the company provided specialist librarians with a valuable opportunity for thinking about career planning. Throughout the so-called “knowledge domain,” knowledge workers are focusing more and more on their relationships with the people they work with. Indeed, one recent comment I heard (sorry – I can’t remember the reference) asserts that “successful KM is not about the knowledge – it’s about the audience.” As I played with that with some of my colleagues, we had a little trouble with the semantics but we didn’t have any trouble with the…
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You like what you’re doing as a knowledge worker. You find employment in the knowledge domain rewarding, and generally speaking there’s professional pride for you, being in a field in which dealing with information, knowledge, and strategic learning contributes to the success of the company where you are employed. But you want to do more, don’t you? You’ve thought about the opportunities coming along, the challenges of “big data” and all the other talk about information and knowledge “overload,” and you want to help solve some of those problems. You’re also drawn to the idea of a leadership position…
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