Listen to the full episode of Unlock People’s Potential with Harvard Professor Chris Myers: https://www.contriber.com/vicarious-learning/ The process of continuous learning is important for every organization. Your company can benefit a lot from applying the vicarious learning techniques recommended by Chris Myers. How can a leader or manager encourage learning in his or her organization? What can you do to encourage your colleagues to learn from each other? How can you share knowledge effectively in your organization? Chris Myers, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, who has done remarkable amount of research on how people develop in organization, met with Guerric de Ternay to talk about how vicarious learning can improve teamwork. He also gave some detailed advice on how to facilitate knowledge sharing in your company. Dig into the presentation to learn more from Chris Myers’ advice about knowledge management and vicarious learning. Listen to the full episode of Unlock People’s Potential with Chris Myers: https://www.contriber.com/vicarious-learning/

1. Knowledge Management:
9 Recommendations
from Harvard Professor Chris Myers
about Vicarious Learning

2. If there’s one thing that you can do to boost both the performance and creativity of
your team, it is encouraging knowledge sharing and effective learning in your
organization.
We interviewed Harvard Business School Professor Chris Myers. He explained
his research and explained to what extent implementing vicarious learning
can benefit your organization.
Start implementing today the 9 ideas that Chris Myers shared about
knowledge management and effective teamwork.

3. 1.
Leaders should encourage more vicarious learning —
learning from someone else’s experience.

4. 2.
The three stages of vicarious learning:
1. Enabling: creating an environment where
interactions are likely to occur
2. Enacting: interacting and exchanging
experiences with your team
3. Elaborating: analyzing what you listened to and
connecting it with your previous knowledge

5. 3.
You can learn a lot by looking at
what’s happening beyond your industry.

6. 4.
Design your workplace in a way
that makes interactions occur naturally.
Vicarious learning is more effective
when it’s driven by your employees.

7. 5.
Boost your creativity
by exploring new things -
books, music, hobbies, and other activities.

8. 6.
Use technology to create
person-to-person interactions
instead of person-to-information interactions.

9. 7.
Discuss your employees’ failures
as learning points
for the whole team.

10. 8.
Encourage all your team members
to openly share their failures
instead of being ashamed of them.
(Read more: 9 Leadership Ideas from Rein Lemberpuu)

11. 9.
Support continuous learning into
the culture of your organization.

12. More about knowledge management
and vicarious learning
Listen to the full episode here.

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