The Skills of personal knowledge management

storytelling — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:52:13 -0600

The following are some of the skills and the taxonomy associated with personal knowledge management (PKM)

Reflection Related to continuous improvement on how you operate - using your outputs and experiences as learning inputs.
Managing your own learning Manage how and when you learn and the ability to create and manage your own personal learning environments.
Information literacy Understanding what information is important, understanding what information is unimportant (exformation) and how to find unknown information. Also consider Neo-Literacy and ability to engage diverse media - physical and computer-based.
Organizational skills Personal librarianship? Indexing. Backup. Personal categorization and taxonomies. Ability to recover from disaster
Networking with others Know your 'elevator pitch' and be clear about what you are offering. Knowing what your network of people knows. Knowing who might have additional knowledge and resources to help you. Also includes Collaboration skills eg. co-ordination, synchronization, experimentation, co-operation, and design.
Researching including active listening, canvassing, paying attention, interviewing and observational - these are the 'participant observation' skills of cultural anthropology.
Communication skills Perception, feedback, intuition, expression, storytelling, visualization, and interpretation
Creative skills Imagination, pattern recognition, appreciation, innovation, inference. Understanding of complex adaptive systems.