How to build and embed a knowledge-sharing culture

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Practice notes

How to build and embed a knowledge-sharing culture

Copyright © 2025 LexisNexis

Published by a LexisNexis In-house Advisor expert

Practice notes

This Practice Note discusses how to build and embed a knowledge-sharing culture in an in-house legal team. It focuses on:

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understanding your organisation’s culture
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reducing barriers to knowledge-sharing
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promoting leadership buy-in

What is knowledge management?

Knowledge management is a discipline focused on ways that organisations create and use knowledge. It has no single accepted definition.

Knowledge management is essentially a cycle where you capture, organise and learn lessons from work, and research suggests that businesses that are better at knowledge management and sharing learn lessons more quickly and are more agile and efficient.

In essence, what you are managing is all the behaviours around knowledge and exploiting the value.

What does good knowledge-sharing look like?

Good knowledge management requires:

Knowledge-sharing culture

Having a mind-set where people use the systems in place to store information and go to look/ask for information.Each team thinking about knowledge-sharing in the same way rather

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Key definition:

Knowledge definition

What does Knowledge mean?

Knowledge is knowing that something is so, or being “virtually certain” about something.

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