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eX Summit: Is the real innovation around employee engagement?

Innovation Excellence

Change Conferences Culture & Values Disruption Management Strategy conference disruption Employee Engagement Employee Experience Innovation SummitMany organizations have failed to focus on the experiences of their most important competitive advantage: employees. It’s now time to talk about the employee experience (EX). That’s why I’ve founded eX Summit, a space to debate the importance and impact of the employee experience.

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Customer, Culture, and Learning: Takeaways from the Lean Startup Conference

Moves the Needle

Anyone who has ever attended Lean Startup Conference (previously known as Lean Startup Week) in the past knows that this annual event regularly features invigorating speakers that divulge the newest insights and innovations in modern management for a wide array of industries and company types. Also, make sure to watch the replays from our Lean Startup Conference warm-up week virtual series. David Binetti presenting at Lean Startup Conference 2018.

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Engaging with Our Client Community at Our Anaqua User Conference

Anaqua

It’s been a pivotal year for Anaqua, and the Anaqua User Conference (AUC) was no exception! Our most valuable aspects of the conference were product training, user led sessions and a forum for our clients to come together and network, sharing IP strategies, best practices and insight on how working with Anaqua helps them accomplish their IP objectives. During the final two days of the Anaqua User Conference, attendees got a sneak peek at Anaqua’s roadmap and new products.

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The Goal: Ignite Innovative Culture

eZassi

We propose you ask these twelve strategic planning questions and read through the suggested resolutions for energizing your organization’s innovative culture. 12 Resolutions to Ignite a Culture of Innovation. By fostering a culture of experimentation to “fail fast” innovators throughout your organization will be better supported and more likely to implement transformative change. Long-term innovation programs that include clear KPIs are proven to increase employee engagement.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

nding new and better ways to serve customers well, which can confer a. ect of culture on creativity, organizations have their own ways of de?ning Better employee engagement and cross-functional collaboration spawn better ideas. pipeline More focused culture of.

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Engaging with Our Client Community at Our Anaqua User Conference 2018

Anaqua

It’s been a pivotal year for Anaqua, and the Anaqua User Conference (AUC) was no exception! Our most valuable aspects of the conference were product training, user led sessions and a forum for our clients to come together and network, sharing IP strategies, best practices and insight on how working with Anaqua helps them accomplish their IP objectives. During the final two days of the Anaqua User Conference, attendees got a sneak peek at Anaqua’s roadmap and new products.

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Measuring Innovation – what really matters?

Innovation Excellence

I attended a fabulous organizational culture conference recently in Melbourne that took the audience right back to culture, climate and engagement measurement basics. It was powerful to see how the links and connections between Organizational Culture Audits & Diagnostics, Climate and Engagement Surveys were expertly made.

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Measuring Culture, Climate and Engagement – all really matter if you want to be successful!

ImagineNation

I attended a fabulous organizational culture conference recently in Melbourne that took the audience right back to culture, climate and engagement measurement basics. The post Measuring Culture, Climate and Engagement – all really matter if you want to be successful! To reinforce their importance as critical success factors in any organizational change or development process, and their role in leadership capability building programs.

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Strategy & Culture: Here's How You Bridge The Gap!

Cascade Strategy

Back in April, we hosted Engage 2019 - our first ever Cascade conference. Over the next few weeks and months, I'm going to be sharing some of the best learnings from that conference, including full recordings of some of the best presentations and workshops that our attendees got to experience. It was a huge hit, and many of you joined us either in person, or via our live stream.

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Leading a Culture of Innovation with Design Thinking Facilitation

InnovationTraining.org

One of our favorite topic focus areas is helping people lead and facilitate design thinking for a culture (and mindset) of innovation. We recently led a 4-hour long design thinking leadership workshop at an organizational culture conference held in Madison, Wisconsin.

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Culture Jolt #27 - Propagate relaxed synchronicity, not uniformity

Values Centered Innovation

Imagine you showed up at a conference passionate about its theme , but found there was no agenda, no schedule, and no specified speakers. Now suppose the conference was that way on purpose! … A conference of focused yet relaxed synchronicity.

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Top 10 Takeaways from Spigit’s 2017 Ignite Conference

Planview

Last week was Spigit’s 2017 Ignite conference. Throughout the conference, which included exclusive innovation strategy workshops for Spigit customers, there was no shortage of useful insights attendees walked away with. Communication is key for consistent engagement. A common theme throughout the conference was around the importance of executive sponsorship. One recommendation that came from Ignite’s Culture of Innovation panel was to create innovation champions.

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The immediate shift in work and social norms needs innovation

Paul Hobcraft

I wrote a post some years back “ The ‘pull’ of the dual forces within our cultural thinking ” describing several differences; we need to further explore the social distancing one that I did not specifically mention in that post, here.

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Top 10 Takeaways from Spigit’s 2017 Ignite Conference

Planview

Spigit’s 2017 Ignite conference. Throughout the conference, which included exclusive innovation strategy workshops for Spigit customers, there was no shortage of useful insights attendees walked away with. Communication is key for consistent engagement. A common theme throughout the conference was around the importance of executive sponsorship. But when it comes to sustaining engagement in an ideation program, extrinsic rewards alone aren’t as effective as intrinsic.

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Why a bad meeting culture affects the bottom line

Svava

If we are going to spend all this money on meetings – why not make an effort to make them as productive, engaging and inspiring as possible? The study showed that constructive meetings create a higher degree of success for the entire organization – both financially and culturally.

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Top 10 Takeaways from Spigit’s Ignite 2018 Conference

Planview

Communication came up time and time again throughout the conference. This level of transparency is what keeps employees engaged and contributing on a frequent basis. Culture drives exponential change. During his keynote about exponential change, Former XPRIZE Foundation CEO, Marcus Shingles, brought up the importance of culture and how it drives change. As Shingles pointed out, what separates Google from everyone else is there careful attention to culture.

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Engaging C-level managers in co-creation from silo-thinking to group dynamics

Be-novative

Best practices from our Be-novative Partner Hub The all-time most successful entrepreneurs and company leaders all have a unique ability to empower people to co-create and foster a culture that promotes group-dynamics instead of building silos.

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Engaging C-level managers in co-creation from silo-thinking to group dynamics

Be-novative

Best practices from our Be-novative Partner Hub The all-time most successful entrepreneurs and company leaders all have a unique ability to empower people to co-create and foster a culture that promotes group-dynamics instead of building silos.

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Ten Reasons to Hire an Innovation Keynote Speaker

Braden Kelley

We have all been to many conferences, and heard many good (and bad) keynote and session speakers with a variety of styles (all of which are perfectly acceptable), including: 1. Innovation Keynote Speakers are often misunderstood, maligned, and underutilized.

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How Israel’s Oldest Bank Is Engaging Employees to Become a Leader in Banking Innovation

Qmarkets

In order to achieve this goal, the Bank undertook an initiative to change their corporate culture, so every employee would see innovation as part of their daily work; an aim they should constantly aspire to. Since deployment, the Bank has run ongoing idea challenges, engaging thousands of the bank's employees in online idea brainstorming to tackle a variety of the company's challenges. QM: How have you continued to engage users in your project since then?

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Innovation Roundtable Discussion: Agile organisation, Culture & Leadership for Innovation

Wazoku

At this year's Innovation Roundtable Summit in Copenhagen, I moderated a roundtable discussion on some of the challenges businesses face when trying to build a more agile organisation, grow a culture of innovation and navigate leadership and mindset. What have you found most interesting from your time at the conference so far? Do we all have a common goal to engage and involve everyone in innovation across our firms? Where are the blockers in your innovation culture?

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SNEAK PREVIEW: A Bold, New Way to Do Corporate Conferences

Idea Champions

Idea Champions is thrilled to announce it will soon be launching a bold new service to transform the way it's clients plan for, design, facilitate, and follow-up their company's conferences. We've been designing innovative conferences since 1987 (see below for testimonials). In the meantime, if you have a conference coming up within the next year or so and want to explore the possibilities with us, click this link. One of our conference mavens will get back to you ASAP.

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Why Sales and Marketing Need to Embrace an Elevated Consciousness: Going Beyond Targets and Revenue

Tullio Siragusa

Sales and marketing teams have a unique responsibility as they are often the front line of a company, representing not only the products and services but also the company’s values and culture.

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Spigit Ignite Summit 2016: Announcing Speakers from Pfizer, CH2M, Lexington Insurance

Planview

She is responsible for driving innovative ideas and thinking across the organization through the identification of transformative and disruptive innovation platforms that can be leveraged across the business, as well as through the development of capabilities and culture that will support continued innovation throughout the organization. Customer engagement is changing.

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Mirror, mirror

100%Open

So said Zoe Whitely yesterday, speaking at The Story conference about a powerful new portrait of Michelle Obama by Amy Sherald (below) and the impact it will surely have to inspire other little black girls in the future. The importance and role of mirrors was the explicit and implicit theme of most of the wonderful talks from the Story conference yesterday, now in it’s 9th year, which is lovingly curated by Matt Locke and the team at Storythings. You can’t be what you can’t see.

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How to Ensure that Your Next Conference Will Be a Big Success

Idea Champions

If you have a big conference coming up and want to make sure it is has major impact, Idea Champions can help. We design and facilitate conferences that make a big difference -- memorable events that are totally engaging, enjoyable, and radically increase the odds of your conference outcomes sustaining over time. Which is why our conference services begin with an in-depth conversation with you. LEARNING PLANS: Will there be chicken at your conference?

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Building A Culture of Innovation – What are you waiting for? – with Owen James Events

Wazoku

Recently, Strategic Advisor for Innovation Cris Beswick spoke with Owen James events about building a culture of innovation. Here’s what he had to say: Let’s talk about building a culture of EveryDay innovation. As leaders we have to be thinking about innovation at a cultural level as we seek to evolve our organisations to become next generation businesses. Perhaps the reason why you have yet to build a culture of innovation is simply down to inertia.

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Building A Culture of Innovation – What are you waiting for? – with Owen James Events

Wazoku

Let’s talk about building a culture of EveryDay innovation. As leaders, we have to be thinking about innovation at a cultural level as we seek to evolve our organisations to become next generation businesses. So, if it’s that great, why aren’t more businesses actually grasping the nettle and transforming themselves; setting innovation at the core of every process, every belief, every behaviour and ultimately, at the heart of organisational culture?

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5 Pro Tips for Quickly Pivoting to a Virtual Employee Onboarding Process

ExactHire - Innovation

email, phone, Slack, text, video conference, project management tool comments). 4 – Communicate your culture. However, it may take longer to assimilate remote workers to cultural norms if you don’t take strides to help them take seed early.

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New Outlooks Are Crucial To A Cultural Shift

The Human Factor

To make the most of their expertise, you need to put a little work into getting them more engaged , as well. At www.scienceofpeople.com , you can learn plenty about how to network through both physical conferences and events, as well as through online platforms like LinkedIn. The post New Outlooks Are Crucial To A Cultural Shift appeared first on The Human Factor. Contributed post –.

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When You Want Your Next Big Conference to Be a Breakthrough

Idea Champions

The next day Rich and I talked about his desire to make sure his annual conference made a big difference in the trajectory of his organization. But for that to happen, Rich knew that something needed to shift, especially given the fact that there were so many sub-cultures in his organization. Long story short, Idea Champions worked with Rich and his team (staring nine months before the conference) to get all quacking ducks in (an out) of row.

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The Courage to Be an Innovator

Innovation in Practice

Dear Mr. Boyd, My Wharton interview was conducted in a group format in which we were asked to conceive a new conference to host at the business school. We went around the table, each candidate offering a different idea on which topic would most effectively engage students and faculty. Culture of Innovation Innovation Inside the Box Practitioner Training courage culture innovation paul carey wharton

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The 3 Crucial Pieces of Effective Innovation

Econic

As the date of the conference approached, however, I saw this as the perfect opportunity to prove the value of my tool and the value of the three essential pieces necessary for growth and innovation. . He not only equipped me with the resources I needed to get to the conference and network, he also created a culture where I knew that it was OK for me to go there and fail (as long as I was doing my best and learning from the experience).

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Empower Operational Employees to Innovate

Gregg Fraley

It’s an opportunity to improve innovation culture that few are taking up. Forbes says innovation training is one of the 12 factors a company needs, to establish a more inventive culture. You won’t improve operations without an innovative mindset and culture. A culture shift away from cynicism towards optimism, improvement, and invention. Engaged support for strategic and tactical innovation initiatives developed by others.

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10 Reasons to Invest in Your Employees (and How It Can Pay Off)

CMOE

Plus, once you’ve established a culture of employee development, you’ll also start to attract new talent to your business. If you put time and money into encouraging employees to play games and attend off-site team-building activities together, you can build a better team environment and culture, which translates into better teamwork and camaraderie between employees and increased productivity at work. Engaged Employees Create a Better Brand Through Better Customer Service.

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Sustainability Workshops and Programs

InnovationTraining.org

We’ve helped with small groups and special conferences for hundreds of people. We will also conduct an icebreaker activity to get everyone comfortable and engaged.

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What Will the Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 Be on Digital Transformation?

IdeaScale

It’s unlikely that this means the office is doomed; many organizations seem to need at least some office space, and maintaining culture through social interaction is present in the minds of many CEOs.

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Workplace Environments that Inspire Innovation

IdeaScale

professionals , “Eighty-two percent of participants said that a workplace must exhibit innovative design in order to truly foster a culture of innovation where they can do their best thinking.” Viacom in New York commissioned artist Shantell Martin to paint an intricate and sprawling mural that leads employees from reception to conference room with images and messaging. What other things make a workplace environment more creative and engaging for employees?

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Get Out of the Gender Ghetto

Innovation Excellence

But every time I was attending one of their conferences there was a nagging thought in my mind: why are there only women here? It’s about like-minded people coming together and having a great platform to engage with. By Federica D’Armento and Aleksandra Orman-Lorenz.

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Innovating in the midst of chaos and disruption

Jeffrey Phillips

First, you don't learn during the chaos if you don't engage the chaos. Fourth, you must change your corporate culture to become a learning organization, one that is more aggressively embracing change, one that is capable of engaging risks and uncertainty. Your organizational structure and culture will become either your biggest asset or your biggest barrier to survival. Check our our conference site here and follow up if you are interested in speaking or attending

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The Spirit of Creativity

Values Centered Innovation

In the mid-1980s I was fortunate to have met and studied with Angeles Arrien (1940 – 2014), a world-renowned cross-cultural anthropologist who studied indigenous people and their cultures around the globe, and was beloved by thousands. The creative spirit is engaged.”. “If

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How a Case of Laryngitis Helped Me Find My Voice and Grow as a Leader

Innovation in Practice

At a leadership conference featuring 10-hour days of training and intense strategy sessions for 1500 member leaders and staffers of a global organization of chief executives of private companies, I lost my voice…and at the same time found it. About two days into the conference, I conceded defeat to a case of laryngitis that rendered me mute. I listened closely to their observations about the frenzied conference activity going on around us.

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How to Manage Teams in Different Locations

ExactHire - Innovation

Multiple locations will probably develop their own unique culture. Each location may develop a culture inconsistent with your company’s values. Productivity may suffer when employees aren’t engaged in the company’s larger mission.