Coaching practices for Knowledge Articulation
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I can get to the right answer but the second someone asks me to explain why I did it that way, I go blank
- I tried to walk someone newer through how I’d handle this and kept hitting questions I couldn’t answer cleanly
- When someone’s clearly not following, I just keep restating the same idea in more technical detail
- I’m operating on some picture of how this situation works, but it’s all running in the background where I can’t actually inspect it
- There’s a subtle difference I can feel instantly
Practices that may help
- Articulation prompts
Ask learners to explain their reasoning before, during, and after a task to surface and strengthen tacit knowledge.
Cognitive Apprenticeship: Learning by Making Thinking Visible - Teach cases to solidify and test your own patterns
Explaining your recognition logic to others forces the implicit to become explicit and exposes gaps.
Recognition-Primed Decision Making - Build a bridging analogy from what they know to what they don’t
Map the new concept onto a structure the audience already understands.
The Curse of Knowledge: Why Experts Struggle to Teach - Name your model explicitly
Make the map visible by articulating your current model of the situation in plain language.
The Map Is Not the Territory - Develop a shared vocabulary for tacit distinctions
Name the subtle distinctions you can detect but not yet explain — giving a word to a perception accelerates its transfer.
Tacit Knowledge: The Skill You Can’t Fully Explain - Externalize tacit knowledge through structured reflection after performance
Immediately after a performance, narrate what you did and why — to capture the living rule before it fades.
Tacit Knowledge: The Skill You Can’t Fully Explain - Label what each example is an example of
Explicitly tag every example with the concept it illustrates to prevent "inert knowledge."
Concrete Examples: How to Make Abstract Ideas Stick - System mapping before explanation
Draw the causal chain before writing or speaking — gaps in the diagram are gaps in understanding.
Illusion of Explanatory Depth: You Know Less Than You Think - Use analogies to transfer structure from known to unknown
Map an unfamiliar concept onto a familiar one that shares the same relational structure.
Concrete Examples: How to Make Abstract Ideas Stick - Participate in a community of practice to absorb shared tacit knowledge
Embed yourself in a group of practitioners — shared tacit knowledge circulates through collaboration and culture, not documentation.
Tacit Knowledge: The Skill You Can’t Fully Explain
Related concerns
- Tacit Knowledge Articulation
Tacit knowledge, coined by Michael Polanyi, is the practical know-how embedded in action and performance that cannot be fully articulated — "we know more than we can tell." Expert cyclists cannot fully explain how they balance; experienced coaches cannot completely verbalize what tells them a client is ready to shift. Developing tacit knowledge requires practice-based immersion rather than instruction, and transferring it requires close apprenticeship rather than documentation.
- Tacit Vs Explicit Knowledge
Tacit knowledge, coined by Michael Polanyi, is the practical know-how embedded in action and performance that cannot be fully articulated — "we know more than we can tell." Expert cyclists cannot fully explain how they balance; experienced coaches cannot completely verbalize what tells them a client is ready to shift. Developing tacit knowledge requires practice-based immersion rather than instruction, and transferring it requires close apprenticeship rather than documentation.
- Elicit Tacit Knowledge
Tacit knowledge, coined by Michael Polanyi, is the practical know-how embedded in action and performance that cannot be fully articulated — "we know more than we can tell." Expert cyclists cannot fully explain how they balance; experienced coaches cannot completely verbalize what tells them a client is ready to shift. Developing tacit knowledge requires practice-based immersion rather than instruction, and transferring it requires close apprenticeship rather than documentation.
- Externalize Tacit Knowledge
Tacit knowledge, coined by Michael Polanyi, is the practical know-how embedded in action and performance that cannot be fully articulated — "we know more than we can tell." Expert cyclists cannot fully explain how they balance; experienced coaches cannot completely verbalize what tells them a client is ready to shift. Developing tacit knowledge requires practice-based immersion rather than instruction, and transferring it requires close apprenticeship rather than documentation.
- Tacit Knowledge The Skill You Can T Fully Explain During A Big Change
Tacit knowledge, coined by Michael Polanyi, is the practical know-how embedded in action and performance that cannot be fully articulated — "we know more than we can tell." Expert cyclists cannot fully explain how they balance; experienced coaches cannot completely verbalize what tells them a client is ready to shift. Developing tacit knowledge requires practice-based immersion rather than instruction, and transferring it requires close apprenticeship rather than documentation.
- Tacit Knowledge The Skill You Can T Fully Explain When Starting Out
Tacit knowledge, coined by Michael Polanyi, is the practical know-how embedded in action and performance that cannot be fully articulated — "we know more than we can tell." Expert cyclists cannot fully explain how they balance; experienced coaches cannot completely verbalize what tells them a client is ready to shift. Developing tacit knowledge requires practice-based immersion rather than instruction, and transferring it requires close apprenticeship rather than documentation.
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