New Methodology for Preventing Loss of Valuable “Know-How” When Key Employees Leave the Organization Outlined by GMU Professor at a Seminar in Bangalore

Corporate leaders recognize that in order to compete, they simply cannot let the knowledge accumulated by their employees leave the organization with them when they retire or leave the company for various reasons. However, until now, without an effective process for doing anything practical or powerful, they have been helpless about improving the amount of “internal know how” that is transferred among members of their enterprise while they are still employed with the company.

(PRWEB) December 25, 2004 -- The Appreciative sharing of Knowledge (ASK) method is a seven-step approach developed by Prof. Tojo Thatchenkery PhD, Professor of Organizational Learning & Knowledge Management at George Mason University, USA. It provides a simple method for discovering and strengthening processes that already exist in an organization for sharing “know how”. Based on an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) approach, it does not involve the installation of complex IT systems or forcing people to exhibit new behaviours requiring training or special incentives. Instead, the ASK approach uncovers things that people in an organization already do to share knowledge with one another and then seeks to involve them in experimenting with ways to strengthen these naturally occurring processes.

At a seminar held on 16 December 2004 at Hotel Atria, Bangalore, Prof. Tojo Thatchenkery also explained the important but often unrecognized and under-appreciated potential of knowledge management for initiating or facilitating organizational change. When Appreciative Sharing of Knowledge (ASK) becomes an integral part of organizing and as a result, knowledge sharing gains momentum, the positive energy generated softens the resistance to change typically encountered in most change efforts and empowers individuals to positively impact organizational change. Thus this seminar had a dual focus – initiating Appreciative Sharing of Knowledge (ASK) and leveraging it for strategic change.

Participants of the seminar - key executives from IT, manufacturing and banking institutions, also received a complimentary copy of Prof. Thatchenkery’s latest book ASK – Appreciative Sharing of Knowledge priced at US$ 19.95 autographed by the author onsite.

Sona Institute of Advanced Studies, who has partnered with George Mason University to offer their leading postgraduate degree programs in Bangalore, organized the seminar. For further details, please contact:

Prof. J.L.Gandhi
Dean, Sona Institute of Advanced Studies
7th Floor Sona Towers, Miller Road
Bangalore 560071
Phone: 2228 1131 Extn: 1027 Fax: 22252350
Email: jlgandhi@veetechnologies.com

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