Sticky Teaching

Helping experts share their know-how & novices to discover it

  • Home
  • About
  • Blog

Transform how experts share know-how – 3 top tips (post 2 of 3)

3 January 2018 by Rebecca Leave a Comment

smart transaction smiling pensive contemplating Free Photo
Image by Freepik

At the end of the last post – the first in a series of three – I asked how we can help experts make themselves understood?

So they beat the Curse of Knowledge and make helpful videos, podcasts, microblogs etc.

The Curse of Knowledge is a cognitive phenomenon. We can’t change the way the brain works, but we can take action to overcome its impact.

To do this, experts need to do three things:

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Help experts share know-how Tagged With: Explanations without examples suck Help people achieve their goals Too much information confuses Bring abstract ideas to life What's the point of your content?

How to motivate experts to change their shtick (post 3 of 3)

3 January 2018 by Rebecca Leave a Comment

umbrella-1588167_1280 PixabayThe Curse of Knowledge means we forget what it’s like not to know what we know. (I explain why this happens in the first post in this series.)

But many experts also forget what it felt like not to know what they know. Because the further you move from beginner to expert, the more you forget your own struggles to master your subject.

It’s why experts get frustrated or bewildered when people don’t understand. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Help experts share know-how Tagged With: Cut the fluff Too much information confuses Bring abstract ideas to life The Curse of Knowledge How our brains work Speaking Expertese Subject matter experts Questions to ask experts

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • 2

Blog Updates

* = required field

Browse by Category

  • Conversations with experts
  • Help experts share know-how
  • Sharing & teaching know-how

Tags

  • Explanations without examples suck
  • Share your experience
  • Good intentions that trip you up
  • Expertise is more than knowing stuff
  • Help people achieve their goals
  • Make it doable
  • Cut the fluff
  • Falling in love with your content
  • Too much information confuses
  • Bring abstract ideas to life
  • Creating videos
  • What's the point of your content?
  • Break your topic down into chunks
  • Sign post your content
  • Structure your content
  • The Curse of Knowledge
  • How our brains work
  • Speaking Expertese
  • Subject matter experts
  • Curiosity lets you in to conversations
  • Questions to ask experts
  • Interviewing experts

Browse by Tag

  • Explanations without examples suck
  • Share your experience
  • Good intentions that trip you up
  • Expertise is more than knowing stuff
  • Help people achieve their goals
  • Make it doable
  • Cut the fluff
  • Falling in love with your content
  • Too much information confuses
  • Bring abstract ideas to life
  • Creating videos
  • What's the point of your content?
  • Break your topic down into chunks
  • Sign post your content
  • Structure your content
  • The Curse of Knowledge
  • How our brains work
  • Speaking Expertese
  • Subject matter experts
  • Curiosity lets you in to conversations
  • Questions to ask experts
  • Interviewing experts

Stay in touch

rebecca@stickyteaching.co.uk

@stickyteaching

Blog Updates

* = required field

Copyright © 2018 Sticky Teaching

Web development by Nic Ann Thomas · Original sketches by Freepik

Powered by Enterprise Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress