ODI-BOND Workshop, 9th June 2005, London

ODI and BOND ran a one-day training workshop on 9th June 2005 at ODI for BOND member organiations, aimed at providing tools and techniques to use knowledge management tools in ongoing work programmes. The session was geared around the information management end of the KM spectrum. The session was a mixture of practical tools and presentations by the workshop facilitator, Ben Ramalingam of the RAPID team.

In the morning, a brief presentation led to discussion of the Self Assessment exercise sent to participants prior to the workshop. The results were presented to participants, and a story telling session was utilised to share experiences and distil the key lessons. This was followed by individual work to address participant's individual information strategies. The principles of building a knowledge asset were presented in the final session of the morning. After the lunch break, the participants were divided into groups of three to apply the knowledge asset principles to three hypothetical knowledge assets. The results of the session were presented back to the groups. The session ended with a presentation and discussion on the knowledge strategies framework and outcome mapping, with some discussion about ideal means of monitoring and evaluating information work. This was followed by an after action review of the day.

Click here to see a summary of the workshop, and on links below to see some of the training and information materials used in the workshop.

Background Materials
Click on the following links to see examples of some of the RAPID training materials presented and discussed at the workshop:

• Self Assessment ( 28kb) with instructions - this was emailed to all particpants prior to the workshop.
• River Excel Spreadsheet (excel 487kb) - this can be used to produce the river and step diagrams used in the training day to benchmark some of the organisations represented at the session.
• Storytelling Template ( 33kb) - this was used to share experiences in a structured story telling session. This is drawn from the Sparknow template for storytelling.
• Personal Information Use Template ( 30kb) - this was used to look at each individuals approach to information management. This is drawn from the Skyrme knowledge networking pointers.