This short session explores how we can use brain science to inform our leadership choices in order to create a work culture that embraces creativity and innovation. In simple terms, we explain the key ways in which the brain responds to different aspects of the work environment, and what we can do to spark and sustain a creative environment – and to maximise value.
Join Wazoku and ideasUK to discuss how you can identify innovation success from within your organisation and effectively share these with your company and the wider world to recognise your great achievements. With submissions now open for the annual ideasUK Idea of the Year competition, ideasUK have teamed up with Wazoku to share insights and top tips on how you can celebrate the very best of your innovation success by telling engaging stories. Whether you are sharing your latest implemented idea internally, or pitching your idea as part of an award or competition, our team of innovation consultants, competition judges and marketing experts will share with you:
· How you can use crowdsourcing to identify innovation successes within your organisation, or ideas which have been implemented outside of your scheme.
· How to unlock the story within your idea to truly engage your audience.
This month we are delighted to bring you two great speakers sharing their research and experiences around the importance of empathy in developing creative learners and leaders both in our workforce of tomorrow and our workplace of today.
Miranda McKearney OBE is the founder of non-profit EmpathyLab www.empathylab.uk and previously of The Reading Agency. She has spent 35 years turning kitchen table ideas into nationwide campaigns. EmpathyLab aims to raise an empathy-educated generation, innovating to create practical tools to build young people’s empathy skills, including Empathy Day every June – this year’s theme is Empathy, our human superpower.
Helen Demetriou, Affiliated Lecturer in Psychology & Education at the University of Cambridge has focussed her career and academic research on the importance of empathy and will share her latest published research, titled ‘Empathy is the mother of invention: emotion and cognition for creativity in the classroom’.
Both speakers will offer insights into the links between empathy, creativity and innovation, and point to practical workplace tools to build our empathy ‘muscles’ to enhance our creativity and ensure our innovations truly meet the needs of the end-user.
John Lewis Partnership and MTR Elizabeth line both shared short presentations around how they manage innovation, creating engagement and that desire to participate.
I am sure everyone is familiar with the term Lean start-up and appreciate it’s a methodology for shortening development cycles and rapidly discovering whether proposals are viable, but how many of you actually apply some of these concepts to your innovation programmes? This session will help demystify ‘lean’ and encourage you to ‘steal with pride’ some tools and techniques to support your activities.
This year we start our programme of events with a ‘Tech Safari’ courtesy of Connor Wakefield, the tech expert from our knowledge nugget partners the Innovation Network. This session will explore ‘Tech tools for 2022’, to ensure whatever the year holds, you will have knowledge of the best tools to support you and your organisation to collaborate and innovate in the virtual or hybrid world we now all inhabit!
Compliance with standards and the regulation, inspection and audit processes that support it are a necessary and common part of all businesses. But do these practices occasionally work against ‘doing things differently’?
Wazoku share their expertise to support you to:
1. Create unbounded capacity to innovate by solving more problems, more frequently.
2. Bring risk forward and push cost back by finding better solutions faster
We are delighted to share some top-tips of our fabulous ideasUK members who are responsible for delivering excellent ‘Platinum-rated’ programmes within their organisations. Our panel includes:
• Jayne Garner: RICOH Ltd
• Eiman Al Khalaqi: Abu Dhabi Ports
• Hussain Fardan: Dubai Customs
• Samuel Macmillan: HSBC
• Dr Ayesha Habeeb Bilal AlMutawa: Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services