August 2009—Two of the three papers SKS submitted received Honorable Mentions for Best Paper, which means they were in the top three out of 121 papers. Congratulations to “Creating High Performing Teams of Leaders” by Mike Prevou, Bob Veitch, & Rick Sullivan and “Positively Gaming the System: A VBS2 Training Case Study” by Maj Eric Atherton (Asymmetric Warfare Group) and Holly Baxter.
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May 2009—SKS worked with U.S. Governmental Interagency Teams during the U.S. European Command Austere Challenge 09 Exercise to improve communication and collaboration between government agencies during a crisis. Employing a newly created team development approach, SKS worked with teams of leaders from five different nested teams to improve actionable understanding and achieve higher team performance faster.
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March 2009—SKS is featured in an article in Workforce Management Magazine about online communities of practice and how they give employees a chance to network, share knowledge, and communicate best practices that trainers can capture and incorporate into future learning projects. Read the article here: www.workforce.com/archive/feature/26/21/70/index.php
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March 2009—Mike Prevou, Bob Veitch, and Rick Sullivan from SKS, along with Dr. Frederick Brown, published “The Teams of Leader Coaching Guide” for U.S. European Command, Stuttgart, Germany.
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Winter 2009—In an effort to improve knowledge sharing across the Army’s Warrior Transition Units, SKS helped the Army Medical Department (AMEDD) conduct a knowledge assessment. The assessment helped identify performance gaps between what a unit can do and what it must do to succeed. The knowledge assessment helps an organization understand itself and what it does so that it can focus on the right gaps. Read more here.
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December 2008—SKS had two papers competitively selected for presentation and publication at the 2008 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) in Orlando, Florida. The papers were:
CultureGear: Unpacking How to Teach Generalizable Cross-Cultural Skills by Mike McCloskey (361 Interactive) and Holly Baxter (SKS)
Best Practices for Eliciting and Transferring Expertise through Communities of Practice by Holly Baxter (SKS), Ron Pruyt (DRC), and Mike Prevou (SKS).
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November 2008—Gary Klein (ARA) and Holly Baxter (SKS) had a chapter entitled, “Cognitive transformation theory: Contrasting cognitive and behavioral learning” included in The PSI Handbook of Virtual Environments for Training and Education: Developments for the Military and Beyond.
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October 2008—Mike Prevou and Holly Baxter presented “An Integrated Approach for the Next Generation of Knowledge Management” at the International Knowledge Management Conference in Columbus, Ohio.
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October 2008—Holly Baxter and Mike Prevou presented “How to Conduct a Knowledge Assessment” at the Army Operational Knowledge Management Conference, in Kansas City, Kansas. Mike Prevou, in conjunction with Jeff Stamps and Jessica Lipnack of NetAge, presented the keynote address, “Teams of Leaders. High Performance Team Development.”
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April 2008—Members from SKS were competitively selected to present at the annual eGov conference in Washington, D.C. The presentations were:
Best Practices for Eliciting and Transferring Expertise through Communities of Practice: Developing High Performing Army Transition Teams by Holly Baxter
Measuring Your KM Program Effectiveness—Not Just Activity by Mike Prevou and John Nelson (DRC)
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