Bird Island has played an important role in my life for over ten years. In very many locations around the world for a huge variety of clients I have used it to demonstrate not only that you can manage knowledge but that it produces enormous performance improvements. All of us in Knoco have our favour story about the impact that it has or about running the workshops. I think amongst my favourite was the time when one of our consultants was working in a location where they had to travel in an armoured car with close body protection (armed guards) at all times. During the workshop the close protection staff sat in the room in case their special skills became necessary. The consultant explained to the manager the impact that managing their knowledge could have. It has to be said that the manager who had been educated in a management style that is no longer widely practiced since a certain wall came down didn’t believe him. By the end of the Bird Island exercise the benefits of managing knowledge had become clear to him.
I have copied below the text that was in the February newsletter as it contains the links that will allow you to obtain further information. All of us at Knoco believe that making Bird Island available in this manner will drive forward the performance of many organisations around the world, far more than we could as a company, even taking account of our franchise structure could hope to reach. We look forward in the coming months to sharing with you some of the success stories of those who licence Bird Island and the significant impact that it has.
The power of Bird Island – now available to you!
Engaging people in the value that Knowledge Management can bring is a perennial problem. How can you show people that KM is really valuable? How do you turn sceptics into believers? Simply, you allow them to experience the value that KM can bring, through an interactive and measurable way.
We have been running the Bird island exercise now for over a decade. It is an amazingly simple, yet extremely effective simulation exercise that gives people a real KM experience in two short hours. It demonstrates three separate KM processes, each of which delivers an obvious and measurable performance benefit, and it includes at least two key moments at which "the pennies drop" for people. We have found it to be the most powerful sales tool for engaging people in Knowledge Management we have ever found. It's the nearest thing to "Knowledge Management Proof" that you could hope for.
You can read more about Bird Island in our article “(Probably) the longest running KM experiment in the world”.
So to give our clients and customers better access to this world-class engagement tool, we have decided to licence the exercise to your in-house trainers. We have created an online reference area for licensed facilitators, which includes a set of agendas for Bird Island workshop, full instructions for the exercise, an equipment list, all the handouts you will need, a complete knowledge asset for building Bird Island towers, the set of historical data, the PowerPoint slidesets you will need as a facilitator, and videos from key points in the exercise so you can see how it works in practice. In addition we have a discussion area for Bird Island facilitators, and an image gallery for you to share pictures from your winning teams.
Contact us for more details, or go to the bird island page http://www.knoco.com/bird-island.htm
Knoco Ltd
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