Teach your employees well

I was on a call today with Ted and some other wiki thought leaders across the company, and the subject of mentoring came up. Our internal wiki has a certain cool mojo going for it, but at the end of the day those of us who are passionate about implementing a 'wiki culture' have to become teachers. We can't assume that folks in the trenches of the company will connect the dots and intuitively 'get' what the wiki can do for them. We need to be in the show-and-tell business.

So the word for today is mentoring. It's sort of like training, but at a more personal level. It goes back to what I've written about before: we have to answer the "what's in it for me?" question if we want folks to really get on board the wiki express.