Tutorials

KM Tutorial 2: Storytellers: Harnessing the Power of Narrative to Establish Common Purpose

05/03/10

8:45 AM - 11:30 AM

Noa Baum

Facilitator, Educator, and Award-Winning Storyteller

Noa Baum Storytelling

Steve Denning

Stephen Denning

Author and Consultant on Leadership, Innovation, KM and Management

This session was such a hit at the last conference, attendees demanded that we do it again! So it’s back by popular demand and expanded to cover even more. Featuring insights, practical strategies, and remarkably useful practical exercises, this tutorial will explain how stories are used to clarify a common purpose and how they can be used to harness the extraordinary power of cognitive diversity to innovate and achieve high performance.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

 > How stories are used to clarify what the common purpose is
 > How stories can be used to harness the extraordinary power of cognitive diversity to innovatand achieve high performance
 > How and why cognitive diversity is a powerful driver of knowledge generation and high-performance teams
 > Conditions required to harness the power of cognitive diversity to enhance collaboration
 > Practical strategies to apply diversity’s logic to problem-solving in today’s workplace