Saturday 4 April 2009

Knowledge Development Services by VKMA

VKMA is ready to present the following Knowledge Development Services to private and public sector clients:

§ Presentation of lectures, workshops, seminars, short courses, learning programs and social learnin
§ Design and develop learning material
§ Skills development project management and facilitation
§ Coaching of communities of practice
§ Formulation of knowledge development and training strategy
§ Design & develop organizational training and development programs
§ Monitoring and evaluation of training projects
§ Workplace and student mentoring
§ E-learning facilitation
§ Transformation management counselling
§ Social-and intellectual capital audits

Sunday 28 September 2008

TRANS-DIMENSIONAL MENTORING MODEL



Learning interventions by visionary leaders, managers and experts to innovate negative worldviews such as class-consciousness, racism and impunity using trans-dimensional holistic knowledge, developing new perspectives and intuitions based on the values of freedom, trust, peace, justice and Ubuntu (togetherness, respect, humaneness and dignity and the interconnectedness of people and their environment.) towards competitiveness, innovation, productivity, self-emancipation, empowerment, transformative growth and the restoration of equilibrium in society.

  • Teachers, Mentors, Facilitators and Leaders take advantage of the African learning culture to
    • Educate, train and develop cross-functional task teams within a specific community of practice (COP)
    • Audit the intellectual and social capital needs of the specific COP
    • Audit and understand the need of learners
    • Practice diversity leadership to lead step-by-step according to the abilities of learners with a consciousness of compassion, humaneness, benevolence and non-discrimination
    • Improve conditions for good communication among learners
    • Pursue collective knowledge
    • Facilitate transfer of tacit knowledge between people
    • Validate all perspectives from all cultural environments and functions
    • Promote self-disclosure
    • Draw on indigenous knowledge and symbolic disclosure
    • Establish learning networks

  • Develop a learning culture among learners
    • Promote spontaneity in the sharing of knowledge
    • Initiative to access knowledge
    • Self-enlightment
    • Eagerness to learn
    • Understanding of own position as part of the whole
    • Disclosure and transfer of own perspective through effective communication
    • A synergy of collective understanding as a move away from foreign paradigms (e.g colonialist and cold war perspectives)
  • Establish Collective (Collaborative) Knowledge Centers for a community of practice to
    • observe, process, access (pull), learn from and use indigenous knowledge
    • Learn from a dynamic global environment and learning networks
    • Make knowledge explicit without compromising confidentiality
    • synthesize interpretations to empower with knowledge
  • Enable E-learning through the use of ICT
    • To pull knowledge from the knowledge centers, learning networks and the internet
    • To securely communicate explicit knowledge
    • To display knowledge clearly and attractively
    • To interact with mentor as supplement to personal contact folllow-ups, find answers to questions and obtain feedback on decisions
    • To store knowledge products

Saturday 12 July 2008

What is Trans-dimensional Knowledge Creation?

Trans-dimensional knowledge creation is learning intervention by visionary leaders, managers and experts to innovate negative world views such as class-consciousness, racism and impunity. The creation of trans-dimensional holistic knowledge is about developing new perspectives and intuitions based on the values of freedom, trust, peace, justice and the traditional African values of Ubuntu (togetherness, respect, humaneness , dignity and the interconnectedness of people and with their environment.)


The purpose of this blog is to share creative and practical ideas on how learning intervention could serve to change the negative world views of people in the interest of peace, freedom and justice.