Happy Friday everyone! Sorry for the lack of a list last week, I was busy treading the boards at an amateur musical production Here are my top 10 links of the week, hope you enjoy them. As always, I will be sharing the Twitter accounts so you are able to follow them. Continue reading
We are very proud to say that Improlity Ltd have kindly agreed to sponsor International Ideas Week 2012.
Improlity Ltd is the leading software supplier of ideas management, project portfolio management and quality management software worldwide.
We have been working with Improlity Ltd to provide organisations with even more ways to improve their staff suggestion schemes.
So join us and Improlity at International Ideas Week 14 – 18 May 2012
Cardiff 10th May – Engagement and how important it is to business? – Hosted by the Wales Audit Office.
Cardiff – http://ideasweekcardiff.eventbrite.co.uk/
London 15th May – Ideas and Innovation – Unleashing the creativity of employees! – Hosted by the Ministry of Defence.
London – http://ideasweeklondon.eventbrite.co.uk/
Both these events are FREE, but places are limited, to book your place at either of these events please register at the links above:
The Twitter account is @ideasweek2012 and the hashtag for the event will be #iiw2012
Good morning, everyone and I hope you are having a good Monday?
In today’s post I just want to remind everyone that International Ideas Week is fast approaching and to find out what you are doing to promote innovation and employee engagement during the week?
I did a post a few weeks back about Ideas Week and it is available Continue reading
Happy Friday everyone! Hope you all had a good Easter weekend and are back all rested and creative? Here are my top 10 links of the week, hope you enjoy them. As always, I will be sharing the Twitter accounts so you are able to follow them.
What are YOU doing to promote Innovation and Creativity
within your organisation?
Join us during International Ideas Week between 14 – 18 May 2012 which will be themed around Ideas, Innovation and Engagement.
Free events will be held in London and Cardiff.
Running between 9am and 12.30pm there will be advice and practical examples from organisations that are making employee innovation an important part of their business. They not only deliver major cost savings to the business but also a highly motivated workforce that is fit to face the future.
ideasUK launched National Ideas Day on 14th March 2001. The original day (14 March) having been chosen as a special day to focus on creativity and innovation in the workplace on the anniversary of Einstein’s birth.
Due to the success of celebrating this special day our members asked that the celebrations be extended to a week in May. So each year ideasUK International Ideas Week™ is celebrated.
This allows our members to hold special events Continue reading
Due to the Easter Holidays here in the United Kingdom, there will be no Top 10 this week, however, it will return bigger and better next Friday!
Our next blog update will be on Wednesday 11th April so until then:
Have a great weekend!
When we launched the ideasUK Toolbox back in 2007, we wanted to develop a method of assessing ideas / innovation programmes to ensure consistency throughout organisations.
Our vision for the accreditation model was:
Well, the starting point would be to say what we’re not – We are not consultants!
IdeasUK is a not for profit, charity, membership organisation, run by our members for our members.
Our membership ranges from organisations with 250 employees up to 500,000 employees from a wide range of backgrounds and industries.
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Happy Friday everyone! Here are my top 10 links of the week, hope you enjoy them. As always, I will be sharing the Twitter accounts so you are able to follow them.
On Monday I was lucky enough to attend an engagement practitioner’s event run by Engaging for Success (E4S) and hosted by The Admiral Group in Cardiff.
How can you tell if you employees are engaged in the business?
E4S was set up by the government after the publication of the MacLeod report into employee engagement in the public sector (A copy of the report can be found here) and its aim is to improve engagement within the public sector by giving practitioners the opportunity to network across departments and share best practice.
The day started with an overview of Admiral Insurance and how they deal with engagement and right from the start of the session it was clear this is one area Admiral takes very seriously in its business model. One point Admiral did make several times during the day is that all Continue reading
