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Teach What You Know: A Practical Leader's Guide to Knowledge Transfer Using Peer Mentoring
- By Steve Trautman
- Published Jul 10, 2006 by Prentice Hall.
- Copyright 2007
- Dimensions: 6x9
- Pages: 320
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-41951-0
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-41951-4
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“Do you find yourself reading books that just ‘make sense,’ so you end up reading the entire book but not doing any of it? Don’t let that happen with this book. The ‘tools’ Steve presents in this book work great. We’ve been using them for over a year at EA Canada with dramatic improvements in onboarding time and knowledge transfer. Here's the key: when you find a tool in the book that sounds perfect for your situation, stop reading and actually use the tool at least once before you resume reading.”
–Jerry Bowerman, vice president, chief operating officer, Electronic Arts Canada
FROM BLAH, BLAH TO AHA!
Breakthrough Knowledge Transfer Techniques for Every Professional!
No matter where you work there are people with experience teaching people who need to learn. Everyone is part of this exchange yet few people know how to do it well. Now, there’s a comprehensive how-to manual for effective knowledge transfer: Teach What You Know.
Steve Trautman introduces simple, practical mentoring techniques he created for engineers at Microsoft, and has proven in many diverse organizations ranging from Nike to Boeing. This is real-world, get-it done advice, organized into a framework you can use no matter what you need to teach. Trautman provides common-sense tools to successfully pass along years or even decades of experiences: easy-to- use checklists, sample training plans, lists of questions, step-by-step procedures, and a start-to finish case study.
Teach What You Know will help you orient new employees, support transitions to new assignments and promotions, prepare for employee retirements, build teams, roll out new technologies, and even move forward after reorganizations and mergers. You’ll learn how to
- Create a plan for the entire knowledge transfer process
- Clarify roles for each type of peer mentor in your organization
- Set expectations for communication so you can mentor and still get your other work done
- Organize what must be learned into manageable chunks
- Develop a measurable training plan in less than an hour
- Uncover the list of information and support that your apprentices can’t live (or at least learn) without
- Explain the mysterious “big picture” to your apprentices
- Create one-hour “lesson plans” in five minutes
- Give a demonstration that is guaranteed to sink in
- Help your apprentices take responsibility for their own learning
- Make sure your apprentices have mastered what you’ve taught
- Provide feedback that your peers will appreciate hearing
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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This review is from: Teach What You Know: A Practical Leader's Guide to Knowledge Transfer Using Peer Mentoring (Hardcover)
I came across a book that deals with an issue that is often discussed but rarely executed well... knowledge transfer. The book is Teach What You Know: A Practical Leader's Guide to Knowledge Transfer Using Peer Mentoring by Steve Trautman .Table of Contents: Roles In Peer Mentoring Managing Time and Communication Focusing On The Most Important Information Developing A Training Plan Teaching What You Know Leveraging Learning Styles Assessing Knowledge Transfer Giving and Getting Peer-Appropriate Feedback Peer Mentoring From a Distance Peer Mentoring in Practice Appendix A - Peer Mentoring Tools At A Glance Appendix B - Sample Training Plans Index In every IT job I've ever had, there was an expectation that "knowledge transfer" would occur between you and someone else. It could be during your training period when you're... Read more
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Making it painless to train people on the easy stuff,
This review is from: Teach What You Know: A Practical Leader's Guide to Knowledge Transfer Using Peer Mentoring (Hardcover)
This book is a very clear, easy-to-read book about how to duplicate abilities to carry out repeatable tasks. And lest you think, "my task is special or too complex," think again. For better or worse, a lot of what we do every day is repeatable and not particularly creative. It makes sense to be able to train more people to share those burdens, anything from computer system configuration to project logistics, at the lowest cost to the current experts in our organization. It's all about getting more people up to speed, so we can all concentrate on the interesting part of the work: the creative and problem-solving parts.For mentoring that part, try searching "lucid quality" on the web.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Awesome. Great stuff., By Chris B. (Newman, California United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teach What You Know: A Practical Leader's Guide to Knowledge Transfer Using Peer Mentoring (Hardcover)
I highly recommend this book to people that value quality in the workplace. I'm amazed how relevant the information is to different companies and possibly even personal/family life. I work in the high tech industry, customer support. Everything I've read so far (I'm only half way through) has been totally worthwhile and applicable to me and the team I work with. I believe the ideas presented would also be much needed at the coffee shop where my wife works. Pretty basic sensible stuff once you get down to it, but isn't it the basics where we often come up short?I like the clear writing style. It's refreshing to read something where the intent is obviously to educate the reader, as opposed to some authors that appear to be trying to convince the reader how intelligent the author is. It's one thing to show how much a writer knows, it's an entirely different thing to help a reader learn valuable information efficiently. I think Steve is clearly and thankfully in the second... Read more |
Table of Contents
ABOUT THE AUTHOR XV
PREFACE XVII
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS XIX
INTRODUCTION 1
CHAPTER 1 ROLES IN PEER MENTORING 19
CHAPTER 2 MANAGING TIME AND COMMUNICATION 45
CHAPTER 3 FOCUSING ON THE MOST IMPORTANT INFORMATION 79
CHAPTER 4 DEVELOPING A TRAINING PLAN 103
CHAPTER 5 TEACHING WHAT YOU KNOW 125
CHAPTER 6 LEVERAGING LEARNING STYLES 155
CHAPTER 7 ASSESSING KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER 179
CHAPTER 8 GIVING AND GETTING PEER-APPROPRIATE FEEDBACK 203
CHAPTER 9 PEER MENTORING FROM A DISTANCE 223
CHAPTER 10 PEER MENTORING IN PRACTICE 241
APPENDIX A PEER MENTORING TOOLS AT A GLANCE 267
APPENDIX B SAMPLE TRAINING PLANS 269
INDEX 281
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