Teach What You Know: A Practical Leader's Guide to Knowledge Transfer Using Peer Mentoring

by Steve Trautman

Breakthrough Knowledge Transfer Techniques for Every Professional!

 

No matter where you work there are people with experience teaching people who need to learn. Everyone is part of this exchange yet few people know how to do it well. Now, there’s a comprehensive how-to manual for effective knowledge Teach What You Know.

 

Steve Trautman introduces simple, practical mentoring techniques he created for engineers at Microsoft, and has proven in many diverse organizations ranging from Nike to Boeing. This is real-world, get-it done advice, organized into a framework you can use no matter what you need to teach. Trautman provides common-sense tools to successfully pass along years or even decades of easy-to- use checklists, sample training plans, lists of questions, step-by-step procedures, and a start-to finish case study.

 

Teach What You Know will help you orient new employees, support transitions to new assignments and promotions, prepare for employee retirements, build teams, roll out new technologies, and even move forward after reorganizations and mergers.

Genres: Leadership

349 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 21, 2006

Reviews

[Samantha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good review of learning styles. No new information otherwise.

[Mike · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am a young 20-something working for an employer where 35% of the workforce is elligible for retirement. Therefore, the idea of knowledge transfer should be ever-present in an attempt to not let all of this knowledge die when they leave. The reality is that this culture doesn't exist in a formal or beneficial way for anyone. The older employees who are truly professionals in their field with deep subject matter knowledge simply don't understand how to teach the highly motivated, tech-savvy, 20-somethings, and vice versa when it comes to the yuppies learning from the knowledgable yet old fashioned PhD's.



My boss handed me this book in an attempt to start cultivating a culture of knowledge sharing among our team (4 people over 50, and 5 people under 26). The book is a very practical guide for establishing a knowledge transfer environment. The ideas that the author proposes are not new, nor are they novel. However, many employers seem to throw their new hires into the deep end to see how they fair. Coming from technology industries, the author is able to tailor his methods in a very practical layout with the high-tech, fast-paced innovator in mind. I found the book very practical, thorough, and potentially useful so I am developing a system for peer-mentoring with my boss and my boss's boss in order to try and harness the knowledge of our senior engineers/scientists and make it available to our tech savvy 20-somethings. We'll see how it goes...

[Mike Thompson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Every day of our lives, we are involved in learning, as student, teacher, or both. I'm not talking about sitting in the classroom, learning that pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. I'm talking about the exchange of knowledge that happens when we interact with family, friends, and coworkers. The book focuses specifically on the dynamics of mentoring.

Much of the teaching in the professional workplace occurs outside of structure settings. This book teaches how we can improve the effectiveness. When I read the book, mentoring becoming a significant part of my daily work. In the five years since, I have been able to apply lessons learned to me a more effective teacher.

[Leader Summaries · Rating 5 out of 5]

Desde Leader Summaries recomendamos la lectura del libro Enseña lo que sabes, de Steve Trautman.
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[Kiersten · Rating 4 out of 5]

Perfect book for anyone who is tasked with being a trainer or mentor. It covers all things such as the proper ways to send an email, how people learn, and what your role is as their teacher. I loved it.

[Yoriko]

I heard about this book through a blog -- I want to read it soon.