knowledge sharing
Passing wisdom around
Knowledge sharing is the act of exchanging information, expertise, or skills among people or within organizations.
The term appears frequently in business and educational contexts, where it describes deliberate efforts to transfer what one person knows to others: The company encourages knowledge sharing through mentorship programs.
Knowledge sharing can happen formally through training or documentation, or informally through conversation and collaboration.
- brainstormingGenerating many ideas freely
- mentoringAdvising someone less experienced
- passing the torchTransferring responsibility to another
- collaborationJoint intellectual work
- communicationExchanging ideas or information
teaching · show and tell · workshops · lunch and learn · crowdsourcing · innovation · documenting · lessons learned · online communities · problem-solving · apprenticeship · publishing · seminars · technical expertise · storytelling · skill development · peer-to-peer networks · social networks
- business activitiesmeetings, meeting, hiring, firing, training
- collaborationteamwork, partnership, co-creation, alliance, coordination
- group learningstudy group, collaborative learning, peer learning, cooperative learning, learning pod
- sharinggiving, lending, borrowing, donating, swapping
- workplace collaborationmeetings, brainstorming, teamwork, delegation, presentations
- cultural communicationlanguage, speech, gestures, signs, symbols
knowledge sharingknowledge retention
Maintaining learned material
censorship · gatekeeping · keeping secrets · concealment · siloing
knowledge sharinginformation silos
Isolated pockets of unshared knowledge
silo mentality · territorial behavior · compartmentalization
knowledge sharingsecrecy
Practice of hiding information
censorship · obscurantism · opacity · confidentiality · nondisclosure