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Guru for a Day

Many employees have knowledge or expertise in areas that could interest their coworkers, but opportunities to share this type of information are rare in most organizations. Such areas of employee expertise can be job related, or they can deal with outside activities or hobbies.

It is very rewarding for employees to be given an opportunity to lead a discussion on topics in which they are truly experts. These employees appreciate managerial recognition of their expertise, and they also appreciate the recognition associated with leading a discussion group.

Assignment

Ask your employees if they would like to lead a discussion on any topic within their area of expertise or general interest. Try to set these meetings once a month or once a quarter, and be sure to provide a good deal of publicity. If you include a light lunch as part of the deal, you are likely to generate even more interest.

Recognition associated with this program goes beyond the presenter, as the attendees regard these sessions as learning opportunities, and that makes them inherently rewarding. Other employees will begin to think that they too would like to lead one of these discussions, and this helps build and reinforce a corporate culture of learning and recognition.

Epilogue

When you create an opportunity for employee knowledge to be shared, you are also creating an opportunity for employee recognition to be shared.

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