TRANSFERRING KNOWLEDGE  ..........                                              TRANSFORMING LIVES

Sentire-Mentoring, LLC™ (Sentire) was originally formed to become a consulting company providing powerful principles to help mentors teach and proteges learn amidst turbulent change. 

Connecting theory learned during formal education training and the practice of getting results in the workplace is not an exact science. It is more than information gathering and sharing, it is a way of being and connecting as a learner, leader, and follower. Our programs employs a deep science of connecting theory to practice while connecting people to people.

KNOWLEDGE CAPITAL is your most valuable asset, but its value lies only in its originality. The more rare it is the more valuable it is. Craftsmen and artisans have this knowledge, but too often they struggle to teach it to others and it is difficult for people to learn from them because they are fluid and natural in what they do. This knowledge can be called TACIT, or implicit knowledge. This knowledge exists in one's mind and heart and is an extension of their way of being. It is their way of being with the instruments they perform with and how they make the result of their work a gift for others. At this level of performance is originality, personality, creativity, and innovation. This performance by one becomes the root process of learning for another.    

KNOWLEDGE WORKERS are people who are required to use their minds. They contribute to knowledge creation. They contribute to change, innovation, creativity, and transformations. They are learners who are enthusiastic about how to internalize and utilize the knowledge they are creating.

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION is the act of gathering information.  

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT is maintaining the integrity of the information.

KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER is the art of education (teaching and learning). It is the opportunity to uptake and internalize three kinds of critical knowledge as a practitioner.  

Kinds of Knowledge 

|  ...TECHNICAL (The Know-What: Information from textbooks, manuals, and handbooks about operations, systems, structures, skills development, and more....)

|  ...TRIBAL (The Know-Who: A group of people with a similar vision and while in this community experience a unique culture, social nuances, purposes, traditions, rituals, vision, and languages is what anthropologists call a "tribe." It also includes the unwritten rules and power hierarchy within the community.)

|  ...TACIT (The Know-How: This knowledge is difficult to articulate and difficult to teach and learn. It is knowledge of the human heart; artisan-ship, craftsmanship and the ability to make a gift from the result. Tacit learning constitutes the early stages of learning.) Michael Polanyi wrote, "We can know more than we can tell." On the topic of tacit knowledge read more about Polany's theory here: http://www.infed.org/thinkers/polanyi.htm.

What one knows tacitly comprises 70% of knowledge; the people and tribe one works within constitutes 20% of knowledge, and technology information equals about 10%. Knowledge exists in the minds and hearts of the people who are around you. Information that comes to you connects to what you know internally, and whether you capture, keep, and use that new information and turn it into knowledge depends on your ability to connect meaningfully with other people.  

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, and MATHEMATICS (STEM) careers have never looked better

There exists proven educational principles and tools to help mentors become effective educators and to help protégés become life-long and self-directed learners of T³Knowledge (T¹echnical, T²ribal, and T³acit). You can learn them.

MAKE  YOURSELF  INDISPENSABLE 

Mentor.....

|  You can make your knowledge a gift

|  Give it away and you will leave a legacy

                         |  Be transformational

^{YOUR success is MEASURED NOT by what your students know, but BY HOW WELL YOU ENABLED THEM TO LEARN and BY HOW well YOU ENABLED THEM to USE WHAT YOU TAUGHT THEM.}

Protégé.....

Convert your knowledge into Know-how

Develop Tacit Knowledge by paying your mentor the greatest compliment?

^{YOUR success is MEASURED by how well you LEARN, CHANGE, and EMPOWER your mentor to succeed.}                            

Pay your mentor the greatest compliment

"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer" (Henry David Thoreau).

Barriers to Knowledge Transfer

5 Generations in the Workforce

LINES BETWEEN GENERATIONS

• Traditionals (born before 1946)
• Baby-boomers (born between 1946-1964)
• Gen-Xers (born between 1965-1980)
• Gen-Yers (Millennials) (born between 1981-1994)
• WE generation is almost ready to enter the workforce (born after 1994).

ABILITIES  

RelationshipABIITY: The ABILITY to connect with people in meaningful ways.

LeadershipABILITY: The ABILITY to become the sort of leader people want to follow.

LearnershipABILITY: The ABILITY to pay the greatest compliment: to ask someone their advice and be ready to attend to their answer. Sacrifice, be humble, and eliminate fear and anxiety.

TeachABILITY: The ABILITY to inspire learning. Lighting the fire of learning, NOT just providing information. Enable others to reach their highest potential. 

             | The NECESSITY

They say, "[The] Demand for knowledge workers is building even as their experiences, skills, and abilities are falling into increasingly short supply. Meanwhile, this shrinking talent pool grows ever more diverse—and their needs are shifting. ...Rather than focus on acquisition and retention, organizations should focus instead on what employees care about most: developing in ways that stretch their capabilities, deploying onto projects and roles that engage their heads and hearts, and connecting to the people and things that will help them achieve their professional goals. (Deloitte Research – Connecting People to What Matters
Copyright © 2007 Deloitte Development LLC.)

|   STRETCHING CAPABILITIES

             |   ENGAGING THE HEAD AND HEART

                         |   CONNECTING TO PEOPLE AND THINGS 

REQUIRES THE RIGHT KIND OF WORKFORCE EDUCATION PROGRAM!

MY ADVICE

Protégés... (everyone's a Protégé) 

Find a mentor, an artist, a craftsman, someone who loves what they do.

Mentors... (everyone's a Mentor)

Learn well, teach well, and lead with purpose. Learn how to teach what you have mastered and teach how you learned to master it.

...maintaining viability IN a diverse global workforce

...strengthening employees WITH cohesive technical, tribal, and tacit knowledge

...ensuring market growth during times of economic instability

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