Preparing
for Conversations with Dr. Dede Bonner
Developing Knowledge
Leadership
Just three weeks
following the conclusion of her two weeks as volunteer moderator
for the AOK STAR SERIES, Dr. Dede Bonner will be the keynote
speaker on Day One of a CLO Conference in San Francisco, U.S.,
produced by our AOK affiliate, the International Quality and Productivity Center
(IQPC).
Here's what the
program has to say about her presentation:
As never before,
organizations are responding to increasing business pressures
by creating new leadership positions in learning and knowledge.
Based on her research of 17 best practice case studies, Dr. Bonner
will describe the most critical organizational conditions necessary
to move Chief Learning Officer (CLO) and Chief Knowledge Officer
(CKO) positions from the "nice to have" to the "need
to have" category.
Dr. Bonner will
describe what CLOs and CKOs really do, what their CEOs expect
of them, and why these professions are predicted to grow. She
will also describe the lessons learned from "grass-roots"
CLOs and CKOs who have successfully used skills and tools in
organizational learning and knowledge management despite a lack
of formal job titles or official sanctions. By profiling CLO/CKOs'
key roles and responsibilities, Dr. Bonner will challenge you
to consider how to make these exciting new professions a reality
in your own organization.
In this session,
you will learn:
What moves organizations
to create these positions as a strategy of first choice. How
to identify the key barriers that keep your company from learning.
Ways to raise consciousness about new learning and knowledge
imperatives. How to connect organization learning and knowledge
management with improved business performance. Methods for engaging
leadership as a support for change.
Our timing couldn't
be better, then, for the visit of Dede Bonner to t he AOK STAR
SERIES.
Dr. Bonner is President
of New Century Management, Inc., a consulting firm founded in
1988 in Leesburg, Virginia, U.S. She is the editor of the best
selling book: In Action:
Leading Knowledge Management and Learning." Her
17 case studies are presented in this book.
In addition to her
presentations at international conferences, Dr. Bonner's expertise
in KM includes work for Fortune 500 companies and membership
on several executive advisory boards on KM and education. Currently
she is on assignment at the Curtin Institute of Technology in
Perth, Australia, one of four universities where she is an active
faculty member. The others: the University of Virginia, George
Washington University and Marymount University.
Previously, Dr.
Bonner was a manager and political analyst for the U.S. government
where she wrote daily situational reports for the White House
and Congress, directly contributed to the President's international
speeches and briefed Congressional committees.
To help start the
AOK "Conversations with Dede Bonner", she submits these
thought questions:
- Do we need CKO/CLOs?
- Who and where are
they currently in businesses?
- How to best utilize
these positions?
- Should they be
homegrown or become new, emerging professions, complete with
executive search firms hot after the best ones?
- What are the most
important skill competencies and personality characteristics
for CKOs and CLOs?
- How are the two
professions different? Similar?
- What other position
titles correspond to CKOs and CLOs?
- Is it possible
to be one and not have the formal job title? Or even know you
are a CKO or CLO?
- Do we need certification
programs for CKO/CLOs?
- If so, what needs
to be taught and where (universities versus private associations,
etc.)
- Are organizational
learning and knowledge management merging together?
Dr. Bonner is currently
working with another company to develop two new assessment instruments
- one for assessing organizational readiness for KM/CKOs/CLOs
and the another to assess job fit for wannabe CKO/CLOs. She invites
AOK member perspectives on what's needed for assessment and may
want to get into more indepth interviews with AOK members both
in the STAR SERIES forum and on the sidelines.
Dr. Bonner will
be corresponding with us from Perth, with her final messages
coming enroute back to the U.S. where she will be conducting
a pre-conference workshop June 2 for the American Society of
Training and Development in Orlando, Florida, U.S.
We are once again
pleased that a busy KM leader has fit the AOK membership into
a very busy schedule. Welcome her to the AOK table on May 14
and engage in "Conversations with Dr. Dede Bonner"
through May 25.
More: http://www.newcenturymanagement.com
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