Knowledge Transfer (KT) is teaching and training for desired learning and performance outcomes — a practical not academic approach — and “transfer” of understanding, skills and wisdom from teacher to student is core to a KT system and its leverage points.

As the Greek sage Archimedes said, “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”

In the context of KT, what is the fulcrum and what are useful levers? Since a fulcrum is the base or pivot point where a lever rests, we believe that genuinely caring about those we teach is the fulcrum in the spirit of Stephen Covey’s axiom: “I don’t care how much you know until I know how much you care” — and that all KT levers (notably the “12 Levers” from the book cited below) are supported by this fulcrum.

Indoor Health Council’s training program strives to apply the 12 transfer levers discussed in the book, What Makes Training Really Work: 12 Levers Of Transfer Effectiveness.

For more information about this latter program visit:
Institute of Transfer Effectiveness

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