Workshop A: How to think like an expert
Registration: 9.00 am
Workshop starts: 9.30 am
Workshop ends: 12.30 pm
Facilitated by: Richard McDermott, President, McDermott Consulting (United States of America)
About the workshop:
The objective of this interactive workshop is to help you understand how to develop your own expertise. The first part explores the nature of expertise, how world-class experts develop their thinking, and how experts apply their expertise to solve difficult technical problems. The second part helps you understand how to identify what aspects of your expertise to develop, specific methods you can use to deepen and develop your expertise, t o e areas of expertise to develop, what you can do to make those . Through a set of interactive exercises and discussions you will have the opportunity to think through the cutting edge of your own expertise and methods you can use to deepen and develop it. The ideas in the workshop are based on a significant research project on expertise development and draw from Richard’s forthcoming book, How to Think Like an Expert (Harvard University Press).
About the workshop leader:
 Richard McDermott is co-author of Cultivating Communities of Practice (Harvard Business School Press) and author of over 36 articles on sharing knowledge, developing expertise and building communities of practice. His articles have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, the California Management Review, the Cutter IT Journal, and the Knowledge Management Review (where it won a “top three articles of the year” award) and others. His new book, How to Think Like an Expert, will be published by Harvard Business School Press in the fall of 2012. He has just begun a regular blog in the Harvard Business Review.
Richard is Visiting Academic Fellow at the Henley Business School and Adjunct Faculty at Kent State University where he will be teaching a course on expertise development. He served as subject matter expert for six international studies, including the largest quantitative study on communities’ impact on business performance. He is a frequent advisor to senior managers and speaker at international conferences on how to improve collaboration among professionals. His private sector clients include Shell Oil, ExxonMobil, Schlumberger, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, Mitre, MWH, Pfizer, and Ben & Jerry’s. His public sector clients include Scottish Enterprise, The Center for Disease Control, The United Nations, The International Fund for Agriculture Development, The World Bank, and Conservation International.
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