Macro-Design · Ongoing / Continuous habit-based model

Seek > Sense > Share (Personal Knowledge Mastery)

A continuous process framework for Personal Knowledge Mastery (PKM) that enables individuals to take control of their professional development in a networked era. It shifts the focus from static knowledge 'stock' to dynamic knowledge 'flow' by connecting individual learning with social networks and organizational work.

When to use Seek > Sense > Share (Personal Knowledge Mastery)

Most effective for professional development, self-directed learning initiatives, and organizations looking to foster innovation and agility in complex environments.

How Seek > Sense > Share (Personal Knowledge Mastery) works

Instructional designers can use this to move beyond one-off events toward continuous learning journeys. Design programs that require participants to curate external content (Seek), apply insights to real-world projects with reflective journaling (Sense), and narrate their progress in social learning spaces (Share).

Phases of Seek > Sense > Share (Personal Knowledge Mastery)

  1. Seek: Finding information and keeping up to date by building a diverse network of trusted sources and curators.
  2. Sense: Personalizing and internalizing information through reflection, experimentation, and putting theory into practice.
  3. Share: Exchanging resources, ideas, and experiences with networks and colleagues to foster collaboration and innovation.

Key principles

  • Knowledge is a flow, not a static asset to be stored
  • Learning is the work and work is learning
  • Chance favors the connected mind
  • Personal knowledge is individually constructed and socially shared
  • Working out loud makes implicit knowledge explicit

Best for

  • Self-directed professional development
  • Social and collaborative learning
  • Knowledge management
  • Innovation and complex problem solving

Considerations

  • Requires high levels of learner autonomy and digital literacy
  • Relies on the existence of trusted social networks and communities of practice
  • Difficult to measure using traditional compliance-based metrics
  • Requires a culture that supports 'working out loud' and transparency

Attribution & sources

Developed by Harold Jarche, 2014

Primary source

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