Put Your Knowledge to Work
Give years of knowledge somewhere to go
Experts accumulate ideas across client work, presentations, articles, books, interviews, research and conversations.
Virtually Myself® helps you retrieve and develop that knowledge so it can contribute to future work.
Find ideas you have forgotten
A concept may be sitting in an old keynote, a client conversation or a document saved several years ago.
Search across your Vault to find:
- Earlier explanations
- Useful stories
- Supporting evidence
- Recurring themes
- Half-developed frameworks
- Related client questions
- Material connected to a current opportunity
- Ideas worth revisiting
Retrieval by meaning helps when you remember the substance and have forgotten the exact wording.
See what your existing knowledge can become
The value often begins with work you have already completed.
You might:
- Find an explanation of your unique specialty from an old keynote and use it to prepare a current article
- Retrieve stories from podcast transcripts for a new presentation or book chapter
- Bring together recurring client questions and turn them into a diagnostic
- Compare several years of writing to identify an emerging framework
- Use workshop recordings to create participant resources and follow-up material
- Find previous thinking relevant to a media request or speaking opportunity
- Turn a client discovery conversation into the basis of a tailored proposal
- Capture the reasoning behind a recurring task and develop a custom workflow
- Use previous proposals, presentations and interviews to develop a new service
- Bring articles, talks and research together as the foundation for a book
- Find approved explanations and examples for a new employee or collaborator
- Revisit an earlier idea and add what experience has taught you since
Your previous work provides the source material. Virtually Myself® helps you retrieve it, connect it and develop it for the next use.
Develop one idea with greater depth
Virtually Myself® helps you concentrate on a subject, question or argument.
It can draw on relevant Vault material and help you:
- Clarify your position
- Examine assumptions
- Identify gaps
- Develop supporting points
- Consider audience questions
- Locate relevant sources
- Strengthen a framework
- Prepare a substantial article, keynote or chapter
The process gives an early idea enough space to become useful intellectual property.
See connections across your work
You can also explore relationships across a broader body of knowledge.
Use it to:
- Identify recurring themes
- Connect ideas from different periods
- Explore adjacent subjects
- Find patterns across interviews or projects
- Identify possible book concepts
- Develop new frameworks
- See where your knowledge is concentrated
- Discover emerging areas of authority
A wider view can reveal relationships that remain difficult to see when material is spread across files and formats.
Capture knowledge that lives in conversation
Spoken knowledge often contains nuance, energy and examples that disappear from a formal document.
Virtually Myself® can help capture ideas through interviews, meetings and voice notes. Adaptive questions can explore areas requiring more detail and retain the resulting knowledge for later use.
One conversation may contribute to:
- An article
- A book chapter
- A keynote
- A framework
- A diagnostic
- A programme
- A proposal
- A future client resource
Build reusable intellectual property
Repeated experience can become a defined and teachable body of knowledge.
Virtually Myself® can help you organise:
- Frameworks
- Models
- Methodologies
- Diagnostics
- Decision criteria
- Training material
- Signature stories
- Research collections
- Frequently asked questions
- Service and programme concepts
A collection of client questions might become a diagnostic. A series of talks might reveal the structure of a book. Repeated explanations from client meetings might become a framework, training programme or defined service methodology.
The source material remains available as the work develops.
Use your knowledge across different formats
A substantial idea can be adapted for several audiences and purposes.
You may develop it into:
- Long-form thought leadership
- A presentation or keynote
- A podcast discussion
- A newsletter
- A client briefing
- A workshop
- A book
- A diagnostic
- A business development asset
Each format can draw from the same underlying knowledge while applying its own structure and audience requirements.
Keep developing the body of work
Completed projects, new conversations and refined ideas can return to your Vault.
The article you complete today can support next month's keynote. A client conversation can contribute to a future diagnostic. Research gathered for a proposal can inform an article or workshop. Each approved addition gives future work more context.
From scattered ideas to a body of work
Develop one idea in depth, connect it across everything you know, and build intellectual property you can reuse.