Description

Are you a technology director or network administrator struggling to keep track of...well, everything? Wish you had an easy way to setup virtual meetings with others, share status reports by project? Let us introduce you to Microsoft Teams and OneNote. These tools work on all devices.

Teams is a digital hub that brings conversations, content, and apps together in one place. OneNote is a digital notebook, whiteboard and SCRUM board rolled into one.

Session Topics

Today's Topics

The Problem

Topic #1 - Need for Knowledge Management

Topic #2 - Creating a Culture of Sharing

Topic #3 - Teams & OneNote

Topic #4 - Redeem Promotion Code

Closing & Questions

The Problem

Problems that contribute to knowledge management dysfunction:

  • Lack of organizational staff to maintain KM repository

  • Inconsistent data collection practices across groups

  • Inconsistent leadership due to high turnover, eroding access to institutional knowledge

  • A cult of technology priests that support the idea only they can control the data that goes into KM space

  • Lack of clarity of KM space connection to vision/mission

  • Dis-trust of centralized information system

Activity: Take a moment to inventory all the ways you keep track of knowledge in your organization.

#1 - Knowledge Management (KM)

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Defining Terms

"Knowledge management is a discipline that promotes an integrated approach to identifying, capturing, evaluating, retrieving, and sharing all of an enterprise's information assets.

These assets may include databases, documents, policies, procedures, and previously un-captured expertise and experience in individual workers" (Source).

Tips for KM

  1. Create shared spaces & deadlines

  2. Make Content edit and search friendly

  3. Collect data with Forms that allow for easy graph summaries to include in KM space

  4. Start with how-to, facts then (carefully) move to culture norms, policies and procedures

  5. Designate key staff to capture ideas, information and include it in your KM space

#2 - Culture of Sharing

Critical to a KM implementation is a common, positive attitude to learning and sharing. Without this, your KM effort will fail. You may also have to overcome the "tyranny of competence" obstacle.

Quinn defines the tyranny of competence in the following way: An individual contributor is a person whose technical competence is judged in terms of singular rather than interdependent action. The more unique the individual output, the more powerful the person becomes (Source: Education Week).

The Culture of Sharing is Watered with the Blood of Jerks, er, Martyrs

"Every organization worth its salt has at least one guy like this. Someone who knows every technical detail, or has vast expertise in the parliamentary procedure. Perhaps he's the coot who knows every verse of the Bible or is the only one with a Master's license. Maybe he's the guy (the only guy) who can fix that big machine.

And he's a jerk.

And of course, he's the one everyone has to tiptoe around, because they know his technical status can sink their initiative. I think you should fire this person immediately. Okay, maybe give him exactly one warning." (Source: Seth Godin)

Knowledge sharing enables a company to learn from mistakes and keep their employees empowered and engaged to the company.

The sharing economy is prized in our culture. Just look at successful companies like Uber and AirBnB and you’ll see that people value and benefit from a collective effort that is accessible to anyone.

Knowledge sharing is a thriving economy as well. No longer do we live in a time where organizations can get by with siloed information, with a select few holding the keys to the castle. Best-in-class organizations earn their success by empowering their employees through knowledge sharing and professional growth. (Source)

#3 - Microsoft Teams for KM

  • Getting Started Guide for IT Admins: This guide is designed to help you launch and make the most of Microsoft Teams. As an Office 365 Admin of Microsoft Teams, you play a critical role in the successful deployment, adoption and ongoing usage of Microsoft Teams across your institution.

Microsoft Teams save time and simplifies tracking everyday logistics, making sharing easier.

  • OneNote Staff Notebooks are built into every Teams site, allowing you to organize content, share, and collaborate with your team.

  • Apps integrate into the Teams experience, so you can quickly access the Office 365 apps you already use – like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Planner – and customize your knowledge management space.

  • Drop video reflections on a process or an interview with a satisfied user with the free Flipgrid tool.

OneNote Staff Notebook

Topics

  1. Getting Started with OneNote

    • OneNote features

    • Navigating OneNote

    • Customizing OneNote

  2. Interacting with Notebooks, Sections and Pages

    • Applying formatting to Notebook Content

    • Inserting Images and Audio into a Notebook

    • Recording media (e.g. audio)

    • Using Drawing Tools

    • Embedding and Attaching Files

    • Locking Sections with a Password

  3. Organizing and Searching Notebooks

    • Move and Copy between Notebooks

    • OneNote Mobile