Long form KMb @ Work talk presented to KMb Summer School Aug 15-17, 2016.

1. KMb @
Work
Shawna Reibling, MA
Knowledge Mobilization
Summer School 2016
August 15-17, Ottawa, Ontario
Influenced by M. Johnny, YorkU; S. Geer & N. Gruber, UWaterloo

2. People
Research

3. 1. Allies
2. Audience
3. Addendum

4. 1. Allies
Allied leaders (European theatre): Stalin, Roosevelt & Churchill at Tehran Conference, 1943

5. • Where are you situated?
– Project affiliated (integrated or end of
project)
– Centrally affiliated
• Find out if there are others like you,
perhaps with different titles.
• Recognize that K* positions/skills are
new and often poorly understood.

6. Librarians/
Knowledge
Managers
International
Office
Media or
Public Affairs
(internal or
external)
Faculty
writing
research
plans
Recruitment
Pre-tenure
Faculty
Faculty
needing
research
participants
Gatekeepers

7. 2. Audience

8. Librarians/
Knowledge
Managers
International
Office
Media or
Public Affairs
(internal or
external)
Faculty
writing
research
plans
Recruitment
Pre-tenure
Faculty
Faculty
needing
research
participants

9. • Understand your purpose and document goals
• What is the history, context of the job?
• Know your audiences
• Create short and long term goals for each
audience
• Promote your quick wins.
• Tell your story, plant the seed for later.
• Relationship building as an objective.
• Facilitate introductions and alliances, recruit
management for public internal and external
‘buy-in’ to position.

10. • KMb/KT/K* Positions are Growing
• Establish job norms in a rapidly
expanding field.
• K* professionals are isolated from one
another.
• What style is the position: deep or broad?
• Build on your strengths.
• What will your “story” be? For whom?

11. • Partner development
• ‘Speed-dating’
• Think ‘outside the box’ to build relationships
• Find the resources-communications, project
partners.
• Lit review-teach yourself and build a database
for others.
• Mutually beneficial media and make your mark
on social media.
• Major project development-strategic planning
• How’s your technical competency?

12. • Are you creating a K* culture?
• What are you doing that is necessary, but invisible?
• Are you measuring the right things?
• Are you splitting your time, resources fairly?
• Re-assess your measurables
• Gather insight/feedback formally- how do people
understand your position?
• Celebrate publically-renew partner relationships
internally and externally.
• Are you sharing your learnings with others? Build
and extend community formally and informally.

13. 3. Addendum

15. KMb
Contact
Shawna Reibling, MA
mobilizing.research@gmail.com
Twitter: @MobilizeShawna
@LaurierResearch