Knowledge Management

Stage 3: Reflection

On its own, having the historic evidence of one’s own as well as one’s new employers’ experience is not sufficient to help make good and better decisions. Any new decision still has to be adapted to new circumstances, whereby old knowledge is transformed into new knowledge. This is where the learning component of experiential learning has to take place, beginning with a Reflection phase that involves recalling and interpreting the experiences and understanding the relationships of events using both individual memory and all the organization’s repositories. Preferably in a group situation consisting of all the decision makers involved, the preselected learning opportunities identified in Stage 1 are examined as soon after ...