This document provides tips for getting employees to care about knowledge sharing. It recommends making company-wide templates for common documents, centralizing client contacts, appointing efficiency champions, having all-star teams ask how information can be shared, and applying rewards like points or badges for knowledge sharing. It also stresses keeping initiatives simple, creating a shared location and language for collaboration, and pairing new programs with internal marketing like launch parties and promotions.

1. ways to
get employees
to care about
Knowledge
Sharing
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2. Keep it
simple
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We’ve all got enough on our plate.

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The goal is to create a shared location
and language, so that employees are
empowered to collaborate across
silos and not feel like they’re
navigating a foreign land.

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Look at common documents that each department
creates. Can you:
Make company-wide templates?1

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Look at common documents that each department
creates. Can you:
Make company-wide templates?1
Centralize all client contacts or
incidence reports?
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6. Appoint
Efficiency
Cheerleaders
When people are
consistently cheerleading
for knowledge sharing, it’ll
stay on everyone’s radar.
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It’s going to take more than just templates to get
people on board.
Create an all-star team of
staff from different departments
(and not just department heads!) to lay the
foundation, so employees can see the value in
building collective intelligence.

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Have these all-stars ask their teams:
“How can we share the info we’ve learned here?”1

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Have these all-stars ask their teams:
“How can we share the info we’ve learned here?”1
“Have we tapped the database to see how other
teams handled similar issues?”
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Shared, cloud-based
knowledgecan reduce workflow
time, speed up project timelines
and bolster the company’s
creativity and innovation.

18. Apply a race for points,
badges and/or top
scores in knowledge
sharing. Remember: the
focus is on rewarding.
Applaud positive
actions rather than
punishing the losing or
less-motivated teams.

20. You might have
memorized the
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r e a s o n s t h a t
k n o w l e d g e
sharing is vital to
your company’s
s u c c e s s , b u t
your employees
haven’t.
A new knowledge-sharing push
w i l l b e m e t w i t h m o r e
enthusiasm if it’s paired with a
smidge of internal marketing:

21. Have a launch party
(with cake) and explain
the tangible benefits for
the company and
individual employees.
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Promote the program
during company
meetings (with cake)
and include it in
company emails.