Day 12 : Tuesday 15 November

Responsible leadership – Dr Eben le Roux

Introduction to knowledge management – Marietjie Schutte

For me this was a refresher course on Knowledge Management, I attended a workshop a few years ago. Marietjie knows her topic very well although it is very theoretical and a difficult concept to understand. I realized that a project that I working at is actually knowledge management, with my new knowledge I am going to improve on this project. Marietjie said I am welcome to contact het.

Innovations and thinking outside the box for South African libraries – Prof Johannes Cronje

Practical exercises lead us to use our creativity and out of the box problem solving. As individuals and in team work we reached higher results that we ever could have imagined. He also gave us a wonderful graph on time management, one of my areas where I need to develop.

We do have to be innovative, creative and still be able to work together as a team. Each one has to find his/her niche in which we can contribute to the overall success.

We were asked to be creative for example, to weave a paper matt, to name five uses of paper clip and to draw an elephant. I won the prize for the best circles, the total amount of 5 cent!

The four Learning styles were discussed namely Accommodator (Learns by experience, solves problems by trial and error), Diverger (Views situations from different angles, tends to be imaginative and emotional), Converger (Likes to focus on specific problems. Interested in technical matters.), and Assimilator (Learns by reflective observation, and abstract conceptualization).

It closely resembles the results we received in the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI).