Knowledge Management for Young Professionals

Managing your own knowledge has been a key success factor in many different disciplines. Two recent developments make careful knowledge management even more important for you as a young professional: the amount of available information has increased vastly over the past 25 years, while generative AI as a widely accessible tool has added competitive pressure on knowledge workers. Personal knowledge management can support you in addressing both: over the course of your studies and work, you collect and generate knowledge and insights. Keeping high-quality or “known good” information accessible to you can help you act on this knowledge even when it is no longer fresh in your mind, and can help you draw additional insights that are only available if you can zoom out and perceive the whole tapestry of knowledge. At the same time, personal knowledge management should cost little time on a daily basis: the goal is not to add work to your life, but instead to make it easy for you to retain insights. In five days of guided tutorials and exercises, this course will help you build a knowledge repository for yourself that you can start using immediately. Each day features a combination of informative presentations and an opportunity to work on your own knowledge base with the advice of an experienced knowledge manager.