For 3 hours as a guest speaker at Nation University on March 1,2017, I learned that providing and sharing knowledge with participants was not quite difficult. However, the most difficult task was the step of preparing materials because there were different groups of participants including faculties, supporting officers, and students in different majors. Not only participants had different knowledge gaps related to the topic but different needs they required from attending this seminar. Therefore, I divided learning contents into 3 parts: introduction, knowledge and knowledge management, and case studies. I started by giving a broad view of "Knowing" and "Not knowing" under my assumption that no one knows everything. After that, knowledge and knowledge management (KM) were described in terms of its definition, benefits and how knowledge workers dealt with it through the use of KM. The final part was renowned case studies in Thailand, some of which was remarkable in the KM process while others in tools and results. I stopped my presentation 5 minutes before noon by requesting a few questions from the participants especially students. One of them asked me whether he will be less of important person when he share his knowledge to other knowledge workers. In KM, unlike other organizational resources, knowledge will not reduce when anyone uses it. In contrary, knowledge sharing culture in organization will be initiated when people share their knowledge and other share too. Therefore, the more you give, the more you will get. I felt very happy every time I had a chance to come back my second home where I spent most of my life time teaching here. Moreover, no one has slept over the entire period of my session. Also thanks to my fellowship Aj.Sripetch for her collaboration of inviting and providing me this occasion. Further workshops in KM are also needed. I also offer them to share my experiences in research work with Nation U. faculties in the near future.
