Lydia - Set up like a scavenger hunt. Have a binder with people & functions the new hire needs to talk with to verify whatever collection of functions & people the new person will need to know.

I watched the video - thank you Ginetta (and it was good to John on the video as well!). The 'Day One' situation you describe is the same one I'm facing, though they have been through the exercise of

Thank you Nirmala - and you do all this in Sharepoint? Dylan

Thank you Madeleine - this sounds eerily familiar to what I'm doing - though I'll need to look into the SP Communications site on the front end. Regards, Dylan

Hi Jane, Several of the topics in Stans list are covered in an interdependent way in my 2 most recent books: KNOWledge SUCCESSion, released a few years ago now and Becoming Adaptable, to be released

Thank you Robert. I'll need to look into columns in Sharepoint - my knowledge is limited there. I like your organizational approach - subject and type. Regards, Dylan

Learning to make a difference: value creation in social learning spaces by Etienne and Bev Wenger-Trayner https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Make-Difference-Creation-Social/dp/1108739539 P Patrick

Jane, here are ten to consider: A Research Agenda for Knowledge Management and Analytics edited by Jay Liebowitz The Gig Mindset Advantage: Why a Bold New Breed of Employee is Your Organization’s

Seen any recently published books relating to KM? or any of Stan Garfields 260 related terms? Hoping to have a KMWorld bookstore at the conference in DC in Nov so looking for some

Lydia, I sent another post with my advice but wanted to emphasize something I said in that post. My research on new members is that they won't read the materials, they want to talk to people. My

I'm currently onboarding at a university and I have a little different take. The onboard package is nice but by itself not real helpful, my problems arise as I start doing my job and I have lots of

Yes, thanks for sharing this Ginetta - what a great, practical response to the question. It also inspired me to watch the video. Great stuff! Chris

The other thing you might consider, when it comes to the onboarding package, is to house it on a wiki and to create a community of practice for onboarded staff. You can then ask the community of

Lydia – I think there are two key ways to improve the process. First, create chunks that are understandable. 20 pages is a lot. Creating an index of sorts that explains what is where is a

Dylan – I tend to organize folders by area of expertise rather than phase of cycle so that the subject matter experts can easily see the materials referring to their area and so they can keep

I love that Ginetta. Your description of great km is great km itself. Robert Taylor Sent from mobile

Lydia: I think what you want to do is get the new hires to familiarize themselves with what is in the onboarding package so they can find what they need when they need. One way to do this is to

Dear KMers, I need help with putting in place and onboarding and OffBoarding package for a large organisation. I work for an organisation that has over 1000 staff, and where there are usually

Good morning Dylan, my name is Ginetta and I am an information and knowledge manager and I can share with you a specific experience I had with a small association as Knowledge Coordinator. This was

One method that I am personally fond of is to create a visual interface. You could create a visual process diagram with clear blocks and then link your content to the respective blocks! Use hashtags