To achieve this growth, you’ll need to know the best knowledge sharing techniques. In this blog post, we discuss five of these, which you can introduce to your organisation straight away.
Reduce the barriers to communication
Communication is at the heart of every organisation. Including yours, I bet!
Unfortunately for some, this is for the wrong reasons. It’s shocking to see that poorly executed strategies are costing UK businesses £2.7 billion every year (according to Unum).
Although this can be beneficial for organisations, sharing knowledge with team members based in multiple locations can be challenging.
Emailing is OK, but key information gets lost between the cracks. Video/teleconferencing can be intimidating for some people, so they find it difficult to get their point across.
Also, because the software is accessible anytime, anywhere, your remote workers don’t need to miss out on any important information that’s been shared.
Encourage cross-department collaboration
A key element of knowledge sharing in organisations often missing is getting another perspective.
No, I’m not talking about your external partners, (although this might be useful in some circumstances.) You need to be looking much closer to home – at other departments in your organisation.
You’re probably thinking this could lead to a culture clash.
But in reality, your colleagues will be resolving their own problems within their departments every day. What if they were overcoming the issues you’re facing? Wouldn’t it be great to know about it?
There are ways to reverse this trend. Have an open mind to new ideas, whether they’re good or bad. Even just a small bit of recognition will increase engagement and give them the motivation to share more of their ideas with you and your wider organisation.
More revenue – A study by AON has found that companies with high engagement levels reported 23% better revenue than their counterparts.
Allow time for it
Now you’re probably thinking this is easier said than done.
If so, you’re right. You and your colleagues already have packed work days and can’t imagine being able to fit much else, (let alone knowledge sharing!) into an already packed schedule.
You already know the benefits of knowledge sharing from the opening paragraphs of this blog post. The problem is, you’re unsure how to fit it into yours and your team’s daily routine.
Don’t worry, here are some tips to help you and your team:
Focus on time management – Are you spending too long on unimportant tasks? Try timing yourself to see just how much time they’re taking up. Could this time be better spent elsewhere?
Organise your tasks – Try blocking out chunks of time for specific tasks to ensure they’re completed.
Stop procrastination – Difficult to achieve, although not impossible. Reducing this can once again give you more time to do important tasks.
Choose the right knowledge sharing platform
Encouraging knowledge sharing is one thing. But you also need to provide the right platform to make it easy for everyone to share their expertise.
You want software that is accessible anytime, anywhere. It needs to be easy to use and secure, so people within your organisation can share knowledge in confidence.
Kahootz is giving tens of thousands of healthcare professionals from different teams, organisations, third parties, and stakeholders an easy way to share knowledge with each other.
Using social collaboration features such as surveys and forums, combined with document management functionality, NHS England has found that having a single source of information is increasing innovation and simplifying project management throughout their organisation.
It’s no surprise the software is expected to achieve a 150% ROI over two years.
Want to find out more about how NHS England is using Kahootz to increase knowledge sharing and collaboration across their organisation? Download our guide and see for yourself what can they achieved.
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