{"id":3689,"date":"2005-04-30T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-30T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/super-nanny-the-perfect-knowledge-management-study-or-guilty-pleasure\/"},"modified":"2005-04-30T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-30T18:00:00","slug":"super-nanny-the-perfect-knowledge-management-study-or-guilty-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/super-nanny-the-perfect-knowledge-management-study-or-guilty-pleasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Nanny: The perfect knowledge management study or guilty pleasure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though I have no children of my own, I&#8217;ve been fascinated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/health\/microsites\/S\/supernanny\/\">Super Nanny<\/a>&#8216;s Jo Frost.  Week in and week out, she turns brats into beautifully behaved children, saves marriages, improves overall family life and makes friends with everyone while doing it.  I&#8217;m in awe of her.<\/p>\n<p>Knowledge management is my justification for watching the show.  No, really.  Observe the facts and tell me if you agree:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Every week Jo comes into a home and spends the first day or so observing the &#8220;family process&#8221; in situ.  In other words, she looks at what these families are currently doing, how are they doing it, and what do they ultimately hope to achieve.  She defines the &#8220;burning platform&#8221; &#8212; for both the children and parents!  I like that she listens to the kids and gets their input.  It&#8217;s important to get the buy-in from everyone in the situation.<\/li>\n<li>Next, she works up a plan to help them meet their goals.  She reviews the plan with the parents and kids, answers their questions and then spends a couple of days helping them implement the plan.  Lots and lots of feedback is given in this stage&#8230;she works hard to make knowledge transfer happen.<\/li>\n<li>Jo then leaves the family for a few days, but has their activities taped so she can check on their progress.  It&#8217;s important for the parents to internalize the information and turn it into knowledge, but Jo knows they won&#8217;t do this unless they implement the plan on their own.  Wise Jo! She reviews the tapes and works up a list of issues to address.<\/li>\n<li>Jo reviews the tapes of the family with the parents, and gives more feedback about how they&#8217;re implementing their family plan. I like that she gives positive feedback, and that the tapes prevent the parents from downplaying mistakes.<\/li>\n<li>After a few more days, Jo leaves.  A follow-up is done at some later point and we get to see if the changes worked for the family long term.  Not surprisingly, they often do, and we get to see a healthier, happier family.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Knowledge transfer happens in the midst of this show, so I watch it.  However, I don&#8217;t know if the super nanny approach would work in a business setting, hmmm, but it would be fun to try.  I wonder how my direct reports would react to a &#8220;naughty corner&#8221;? hehehehehe  Okay, maybe it&#8217;s equal parts km and guilty pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>Excuse me while I work to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/online\/archives\/media\/2005\/04\/watching_tv_makes_you_smarter.html\">become smarter by watching television<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though I have no children of my own, I&#8217;ve been fascinated by Super Nanny&#8216;s Jo Frost. Week in and week out, she turns brats into beautifully behaved children, saves marriages, improves overall family life and makes friends with everyone while doing it. I&#8217;m in awe of her. Knowledge management is my justification for watching the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}