1. Great Work
Summit

2. KNOWvember 2008:
Great Work Summit
Name: ______________
Looking for other Learning Opportunities? See back cover

3. Setting you up for success
This workbook is a tool that has been designed for you, the learner and will help
you facilitate effective sharing of your insights, newly acquired knowledge and
experiences as well as be a place to capture ideas, connections and learning
treasures that you deem valuable both now AND in the future.
This workbook has been designed to help you integrate the learning into your life
and at the same time share your experience, insight and new practices with your
colleagues. By sharing your learning - you will deepen your understanding and in
the process create an important business context for the learning experience as it
applies to the growth of our organization. It is what will help you counteract and
overcome your natural resistors easing the temptations of:
– Going back to “your comfort zone”
– Not taking the risk of trying something new and feeling vulnerable
– Investing your energy is easier things
This workbook is also a communication tool. As you will discover, it is designed to
accompany you on your learning journey and provide a home for the exciting new
ideas and practices as well as contacts you make. You will leave this extraordinary
experience with so much to share with your family, friends, and colleagues that you
will want to get clear in your own mind. What are the most valuable and useful or
provocative things you want to share with others when they ask, “How was
KNOWvember?” So dive in and enjoy!
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Creativity At Its Natural Best
Stephen James Joyce, Teaching an Anthill to Fetch (page 161)
“It is becoming increasingly apparent that if the teams and companies are to
adapt to the rapid changes occurring in society, they will have to tap into their
natural creative abilities and turn that capacity into innovation. Smart companies are
already doing that.
Meyer and Davis provide a fascinating set of examples, in It’s Alive, where
companies have emulated the creativity and innovation of natural systems to build
strongly adaptive businesses.
One example is the John Deere company. One of their divisions manufactures
seeders. The business challenge the company faced was that there were 1.6 billion
possible permutations for the configurations that could be ordered by customers.
Trying to create a production schedule to optimize work hours and other resources
was challenging, to say the least. John Deere used the services of a company
called Optimax Systems. Using genetic algorithms, Optimax would "breed” the
various possible schedules to test for “fitness” –the fittest schedule would be the
one the computers bred overnight before each working day. Using powerful
computers, the breeding process could be repeated over 40,000 times in a vastly
accelerated version of natural selection. The results were so dramatic at John
Deere that suppliers had trouble keeping up with John Deere's requirements, and
production schedules met target consistently.

4. Meetings That Work (Quote from Facilitations at a Glance, Pocket Guide, p. 103)
Here are the ingredients of all effective meetings:
a detailed agenda that spells out what will be discussed, the goal of the discussion, who
is bringing that item forward and an estimate of how long each items will take.
clear process notes that describe the tools and techniques that will be used.
assigned roles such as a facilitator, chair person, minute taker, and timekeeper.
AGENDA
Time Topic Speaker
08:00 - 08:10am Welcome Karen Lekowski, Knowledge Management
08:10 - 08:45am
Smart Collaboration
Teaching our Anthill to Fetch
Stephen James Joyce, Author,
Teaching an Anthill to Fetch
08:45 - 09:00am
Great Work Exchange –
A Place for Continuous Learning for
Knowledge Leaders
Karen Lekowski & Jen Hunter,
The Learning Catalyst
09:00 - 09:15am
Aligned Teamwork
Establishing a Global Internet
Strategy
Chris Whitehead, Director, Global Internet
Strategy
09:15 - 09:20am 5 minute exchange All
09:20 - 09:35am
Retention of Critical Knowledge
(RoCK) success story at Deere Direct Dave Fortin, Manager, HR Administrative Services
09:35 - 09:50am New Gearboxes for C&F Mule
Randy Swanson, Manager of Marketing & Product
Planning - Drivetrains, JDPS
09:50 - 10:05am
Driving Collaboration: Solving the
Engagement Puzzle
Travis Wilson, Project Manager, Committee on
Corporate & Social Responsibility
10:05 - 10:35am Knowledge Exchange Break All
10:35 - 10:50am Empowered Teams Success Story
Garry Luterek, Program and Business Value
Leadership
10:50 - 11:05am
Telepresence - One of many new
collaboration tools changing how we
work
Malek Abdel-Fattah, Collaboration Program
Manager
11:05 - 11:30am
Keynote: Team Enrichment Overview
and Tools that support Team
Development
Kim Beardsley, Factory Manager,
Cylinder Division
11:30 - 12:00pm Application and Harvesting of Ideas Stephen James Joyce and You
12:00 - 12:50pm Networking Lunch East side of East Cafeteria, 1st floor of WWHQ
Afternoon Session 1NW 1 & 2 - West Office Building
01:00 - 04:00pm
Redefining Collaboration: An
Engagement Café
Stephen James Joyce, author, and Jen Hunter,
President, The Learning Catalyst

5. Your Feedback is important to us!
Please take a minute to share a few thoughts with us about your
experience and how to improve KNOWvember in years to come.
One thing I loved about this summit is …
One thing I’d like to see at future summits is….
I have a Great Work story to share next year about……
I would recommend you contact ____________________ for a great work
story next year.
It is about…
I would like to join the Knowledge Management Leadership community.
Yes ____ No_____
Name: ___________________________________
The best way to reach me
is_____________________________________________
Other comments:
Thank you for participating.
Virtual participants please email your responses to MyattKathy@JohnDeere.com

6. Notes:
Action items:
What really surprised me was…
Topic and Contributor(s):
!
Join us at the Great Work Exchange
in http://jdforums.deere.com
Questions that arise for me are…
?

7. Notes:
Action items:
What really surprised me was…
Topic and Contributor(s):
!
Join us at the Great Work Exchange
in http://jdforums.deere.com
Questions that arise for me are…
?

8. Notes:
Action items:
What really surprised me was…
Topic and Contributor(s):
!
Join us at the Great Work Exchange
in http://jdforums.deere.com
Questions that arise for me are…
?

9. Notes:
Action items:
What really surprised me was…
Topic and Contributor(s):
!
Join us at the Great Work Exchange
in http://jdforums.deere.com
Questions that arise for me are…
?

10. Notes:
Action items:
What really surprised me was…
Topic and Contributor(s):
!
Join us at the Great Work Exchange
in http://jdforums.deere.com
Questions that arise for me are…
?

11. Notes:
Action items:
What really surprised me was…
Topic and Contributor(s):
!
Join us at the Great Work Exchange
in http://jdforums.deere.com
Questions that arise for me are…
?

12. Notes:
Action items:
What really surprised me was…
Topic and Contributor(s):
!
Join us at the Great Work Exchange
in http://jdforums.deere.com
Questions that arise for me are…
?

13. Notes:
Action items:
What really surprised me was…
Topic and Contributor(s):
!
Join us at the Great Work Exchange
in http://jdforums.deere.com
Questions that arise for me are…
?

14. Notes:
Action items:
What really surprised me was…
Topic and Contributor(s):
!
Join us at the Great Work Exchange
in http://jdforums.deere.com
Questions that arise for me are…
?

15. Notes:
Action items:
What really surprised me was…
Topic and Contributor(s):
!
Join us at the Great Work Exchange
in http://jdforums.deere.com
Questions that arise for me are…
?

16. Notes:
Action items:
What really surprised me was…
Topic and Contributor(s):
!
Join us at the Great Work Exchange
in http://jdforums.deere.com
Questions that arise for me are…
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17. Knowledge Leaders
Rapid Learning Event Schedule
Collaboration Innovation - Part 2
Stephen James Joyce Dec 10, 2008 8:00 a.m. Central
Everyday Knowledge Sharing
Lynn Friesth Jan 14, 2009 9:00 a.m. Central
Community Creation &
Maintenance
Karen Lekowski Feb 11, 2009 9:00 a.m. Central
Organizing Your Community’s
Knowledge
Karen Lekowski Mar 11, 2009 9:00 a.m. Central
Sharing Knowledge Globally
TBD Apr 8, 2009 9:00 a.m. Central
Team Accountability
Kara Wipperfurth May 13, 2009 9:00 a.m. Central
Self Leadership &
Building Team Resiliency
Kara Wipperfurth
Jun 11, 2009
9:00 a.m. Central
Meeting Facilitation Effectiveness
Jen Hunter Jun 24, 2009 9:00 a.m. Central
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Visit The Great Work Exchange for a schedule of these and
future events!