What do I know about myself?
Tacit and explicit skills
Knowledge Management is generally thought of as the practice of distributing knowledge for reuse, awareness and learning. Our approach to developing your ‘employ-ability factor’ is to use Knowledge Management practices to gain insight into how you approach, carry out and reflect upon tasks. This enables you to understand how to achieve specific outcomes, improve your performance and increase your levels of innovation.
All of our activities are designed to transfer knowledge and insight effectively so that you intuitively know what to do and how to do it. In Knowledge Management terms we are trying to make your tacit skills explicit.
Tacit Knowledge is the informal, hard to pin-down capacity that everyone has. In its simplest form it is the ability to perform a task but not to be able to recall how you did it and what informed you throughout the process.
Explicit Knowledge is sometimes described as knowledge that stays in the room after you leave, because you can explain it to someone else, where as tacit knowledge leaves the room with you.
From a career management perspective you need to be able to proposition your skills explicitly, knowing yourself and your qualities well but positioning it as the tip of the iceberg - its the potential that employers are looking for!