Do you have a unique understanding and/or capability that will/could impact the learning and work of knowledge workers?   Do you have a certain expertise that when shared can make a difference for people engaged in the creation of value from information?  If so, this community represents an opportunity for you to make a better impact on the world.  

Knowledge Work Artisans shares the mission of improving the performance of knowledge workers to devise better outcomes ad produce results that fulfill the lives to which our knowledge workers aspire.   We embark on this ambition with folks like yourself who have something to share.  

Specifically we intend to help and are looking for mentor-contributors who may help  knowledge workers in the following areas: 

Capability-by-Design Competencies

 Core Skills – Deep Development of:   

• Inquiry/Questioning –
• Active Listening –
• Reading –
• Writing –
• Cognitive-Visual Communication –
• Journaling -and-
• Notes-eering

Research Practices Mastery Including:

• Cognitive-Rational Inquiry –
• Advanced Search –
• Curation –
• Validation –
• Annotation -and
• Corpus Development

Information Practices Mastery: 

• All Things Personal Information Management-PIM -and-
• Document Engineering –
• Operational Information Processing –
• All Things Data Science – and
• Numeric-Quantitative Knowledge Work

Thinking-Solving Mastery Fun With: 

• Critical Thinking –
• Creative Thinking –
• What If/Ideation-to-Innovation Processes
• Decision Making –
• Intelligent Prioritization –
• Rational Thinking –
• DESIGN THINKING MASTERY –
• Lateral/Open Thinking –
• Systems Thinking
• TRIZ – and-
• KW Solutions Toolkit

Systemic Outcomes Mastery Covers:   

• Basic Outcomes Engineering –
• Field Analysis –
• Root-Cause Analysis –
• Value Network Analysis (including Value Mapping) –
• Systems Dynamics Modeling –
• Futures Engineering -and-
• ADVANCED OUTCOMES ENGINEERING

Interaction Value Mastery Deep Dive Into:   

• Direct Interaction Value Creation –
• Conversation –
• Decision-Interaction –
• Negotiation –
• Facilitation –
• Persuasion -and-
• Applied Information Reasoning

And finally, Work Product-Deliverables Production:   

• 4C Work Product Project Management –
• Job-Specific Writing –
• Explanation Centered Communication –
• Intelligent-Persuasive Presentations – and-
• Information Enhanced Negotiations

And for each of these competence practices with their proceddures, tools, etc., we are especially keen to advise our knowledge work members arounf the systems they might develop/adopt to gain maximum effectivenes toward their intended outcomes. – (have impact on/toward the Knowledge Work Artisans’ System-I-ze and Aspiration-to-Execution service-products).

If you would like to grab this opportunity to help shape knowledge work practice for the future; Please Contact Us and Request To Join KWA Today as a Mentor-Contributor – (It’s FREE! -and- we encourage you to MONETIZE your participation!)