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An Easier Method for Extracting Tacit Knowledge - Commoncog

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Let’s say that you’re a junior employee at a company, and you find a senior person with a set of skills that you’d like to learn. You ask them how they do it, and they give you an incomprehensible answer — something like “oh, I just know what to do”, or “oh, I just do what feels right”. How can you learn their skills? In Part 2 of my tacit knowledge series, I described one method: you take something called the recognition-primed decision making (RPD) model and then you use that as a map to get at the tacit expertise of skilled practitioners around you. The RPD model describes how intuitive expertise works; my argument was that once you understand the shape of intuition, you can get at some of the things that every expert must do when they’re operating in the real world, even when they can’t explain what they do. The main problem with that approach is that it's really hard. While RPD describes what expert intuition is, it doesn’t really help you extract that intuition for yourself. The

An Easier Method for Extracting Tacit Knowledge - Commoncog --> This is part of the Expertise Acceleration topic cluster. Learning Techniques An Easier Method for Extracting Tacit Knowledge Table of Contents This is Part 5 in a series on tacit knowledge . Read Part 4 here. Let’s say that you’re a junior employee at a company, and you find a senior person with a set of skills that you’d like to learn. You ask them how they do it, and they give you an incomprehensible answer — something like “oh, I just know what to do”, or “oh, I just do what feels right”. How can you learn their skills? In Par

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