Introduction: What is a Knowledge Activist?
A knowledge activist can be any individual who has an interest in any of the following aspects:
- Helping other people gain and use knowledge
- Increase company success through knowledge leveraging
- Enjoys creative ventures and applications
- Increasing personal business, knowledge, and communication skills
The Importance of Becoming a Knowledge Activist:
- Growing your own knowledge management skills
- To better help your company and yourself through expanded skills and insights
- Helping other knowledge activists
- Supporting knowledge management projects
- Starting: can help launch your company’s knowledge management process
- Managing: you get your hands dirty in the process and stimulate others’ growth / involvement
- Assisting: your insight and knowledge may help another out
- Leveraging knowledge in the organization
- The success of your organization is tied to how well staff uses knowledge
- Characteristics of an Activist (DART):
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ecisive: think about the options and consequences, then make the decision and take action - A
daptable: being willing to change your view of what’s ‘right’ and your plans - R
esponsible: have what you say you will do align with what you actually do - T
eam-focused: you rely on others and they rely on you – interdependence
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