The ability to share tacit knowledge and expertise rapidly between and among teams is crucial in today's high-stakes organizations. The shift away from individual explicit routine tasks to a more team-based environment makes it imperative that we adapt by exploiting observations, insights, and lessons learned to create dynamic relevant training that develops more adaptive teams. Without effective knowledge capture and transfer techniques, these valuable lessons learned and best practices can go to waste. One of the biggest challenges is that expertise is very difficult to capture and share in a timely manner using traditional methods. Finding a way to do this in an innovative format is critical to maintaining a competitive advantage. A new method for quickly capturing and sharing expertise from the field to the classroom is by using traditional community of practice forums in a very nontraditional way. ;. This study looks at how we went about transforming the US Army Transition Team Forum from a traditional knowledge management forum into a transformational educational tool that gives soldiers the ability to rapidly share and transfer lessons learned though the use of stories and other methods in an online structured forum format. This paper discusses how key principles of Cognitive Task Analysis were applied to an online community of practice in order to capture and transfer expertise among soldiers. We discuss the types of information we were capturing prior to any changes, how we altered the language used in the questions to capture expertise in a transferable format, and the significant change in both knowledge capture and transfer we saw as a result. Additionally, we share our lessons learned including best practices and tips for improving questions that stimulate discussion in communities and to move them from knowledge storerooms to knowledge sharing tools.