Working With SMEs

Valuable organizational expertise is retiring!  And, chances are, it’s affecting your organization.  Join us to learn how to identify and manage the issue of retaining your corporate expertise for business continuity.  Using case studies, Peggy Salvatore, author of Working with SMEs and Finding Your SMEs, will guide you through how to analyze your corporate brain drain.  Case studies will include the pharmaceutical industry as well as the manufacturing industry and small business – a sampling of the organizations dealing with the loss of critical knowledge as the generation of workers that built your business retires.

 You will walk away with some strategies for ensuring you’re retaining what’s most important while not spending resources on information you can recapture in other ways.  The time is now – the corporate brain drain can be, at the least, disruptive and, at worst, catastrophic.  It’s critical you learn to how to deal with the loss of your organizational expertise.  Come learn and engage in this interactive session!

This event will emphasize “Knowledge Management” – TD Area of Expertise, ATD Competency Model (https://www.td.org/Certification/Competency-Model)

Members and non-members welcome.