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Reimagining the Future of International Events

Business and Tech

Face-to-face events are essential for so many organizations globally, from meeting planners organizing events, to services providers and the entire hospitality industry. Applying some of our learnings from 2020, we are experimenting with a new model in 2021.

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The Future of Hybrid Events and Trade Shows

Business and Tech

Corbin Ball is an event technology speaker, consultant, and writerhelping event and exhibitionhosts worldwide to effectively use technology to increase efficiency and improve the attendee experience. Corbin Ball Event Technology Speaker, Consultant, and Writer.

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We need to shift from scalable efficiency to scalable learning.

Paul Hobcraft

We need to shift from scalable efficiency to scalable learning but how can we liberate creative energy, how can we achieve higher engagement? Learning from failures needs to be part of this. Let me offer some thoughts on this engagement need. It underpins engagement.

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Advancing Hybrid Events Will Enhance Attendee Experience and Build Business Value

Business and Tech

Hybrid events will are here to stay. Event marketers must continually adapt and innovate, with an eye on delivering unified live and digital experiences. . One prevalent idea is that hybrid events are here to stay. Best practices for structuring hybrid events are also evolving.

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The Ultimate Guide to Hosting Hybrid Events For Your Association

Hybrid events give associations the ability to drive greater value for their members –– provided they are done right. Don’t "host and hope;" use the proven strategies in this playbook to boost membership activity, and maximize your event ROI and experience.

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The Progress Principle: Using small wins to ignite joy, engagement and creativity at work

Idea to Value

One of the most important pieces of creativity and innovation research from the past couple of decades can be found in the book The Progress Principle: Using small wins to ignite joy, engagement and creativity at work. Progress: events signifying progress, including.

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How to Engage People with Ideation and Challenge-based Learning

Be-novative

Learning and sharing knowledge in the Be-novative Partner Ecosystem After the high energy and high attendance kick-off of the Be-novative Partner Hub on the 24th November 2020, we have gathered again online on the 10th of December for our second session.

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Reflection Workshops and Reflection Activities for Learning and Development

InnovationTraining.org

A wealth of research has shown how powerful reflection is for learning and development. In my own research on high-impact leadership development programs, we found learning happened through reflection activities. Student engagement in reflection activities happens in three ways.

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3 Tips For Speaking At Virtual Events

The Human Factor

A study published in the Virtual Event Tech Guide revealed that 31% of event organizers cite maintaining audience engagement as the biggest challenge of pivoting to virtual events, according to Event Manager Blog. Actively Re-engage Your Audience’s Attention.

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Learning Experience Design (Top Questions and Answers about LXD)

InnovationTraining.org

These are some of the top questions people have about learning experience design (LXD). Read on for the answer summaries for each frequent asked question about designing learning experiences. What is learning experience design and why is it important?

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Lessons Learned About Innovation Communications from the City of Calgary

IdeaScale

In this case, the City of Calgary was a leader in generating engagement with their innovation program. This included nine different channels which included in-person events, meetings, blog posts, newsletters, social media, print media, video, website advertising, on top of the tried and true email. This is perhaps the most important engagement tactic you can use: responsiveness. Case Study city of calgary crowdsourcing employee engagement engagement

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Better employee engagement and cross-functional collaboration spawn better ideas. ciencies Learning about the. Select the right outcomes and incentives to keep employees engaged to improve the. to learning Innovation is happening Innovation is having the. Peer learning.

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Enhancing Your Homepage to Boost Ideation Engagement

Qmarkets

While usually this is said in reference to people, we at Qmarkets know it’s also very true for web products and applications – especially when you are aiming to maximize engagement and usage. The post Enhancing Your Homepage to Boost Ideation Engagement appeared first on Qmarkets

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Accelerate Innovation — With Experiential Learning

Gregg Fraley

Experiential Learning Accelerates Innovation. Innovation Session Designs Don’t Engage. New Study: Drawing is the Fastest, Most Effective Way to Learn. I read with interest an article stating that drawing accelerates learning. Using experiential learning tools like drawing isn’t really new in innovation process. Sunni Brown , Dave Gray , Dan Roam, and yours truly all use experiential learning tools in innovation projects.

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Enhancing Your Homepage to Boost Ideation Engagement

Qmarkets

While this is usually said in reference to people, we at Qmarkets know it’s also very true for web products and applications – especially when you are aiming to maximize engagement and usage. The post Enhancing Your Homepage to Boost Ideation Engagement appeared first on Qmarkets.

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MAKING GAMIFICATION ACCESSIBLE – BRINGING NEWNESS TO CORPORATE LEARNING

ImagineNation

Propelled further by people’s increasing desire to socialise and share ideas and knowledge across the globe, learn and connect in a high-tech world, discover and play, to be met in ways that also satisfied their aspirational, motivational and recreational needs.

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Strategic foresight: learning from Steve Jobs

Norbert Bol

Narratives can be described as meaningful stories that organizes events and human actions and give siginificance to individual actions and events according to their effect on the whole. Paul Ricoeur developed a theory about narrative and time (see figure 1) to explain how we can build a coherent stories learning from the past, the present and the future. He focuses on what the company is going to do in the present to learn from the past and succeed in the.

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Effective Leaders Create Highly Engaged Cultures

Tullio Siragusa

Effective Leaders Create Highly Engaged Cultures. Provide events and opportunities to socialize. Happy hours, catered lunches, company sports teams, or celebratory events commemorating achievements are all great and viable options. People who find their work meaningful are happy, better engaged, and able to deliver exceptional results for the business.”.

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Developing continuous learning

ImagineNation

Last week, I went to a fantastically informative event, hosted by the Churchill Club, Melbourne, it was about “Developing the Tech Talent of the Future”. In the same way, new platforms, products and services, business models and other emerging creative surprises are, disrupting the learning game. To also develop the skills required to surmount future challenges, so what then, is the role of continuous learning?

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10 Practical uses of deep learning

IdeaSpies

Deep learning has altered the way we operate in various ways. These are 10 practical use cases of Deep Learning in the last few years. Most airports are now able to use deep learning techniques to identify and track persons of interest (e.g. Machine learning has been adopted by.

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Effective Leaders Create Highly Engaged Cultures

Tullio Siragusa

Effective Leaders Create Highly Engaged Cultures. Provide events and opportunities to socialize. Happy hours, catered lunches, company sports teams, or celebratory events commemorating achievements are all great and viable options. People who find their work meaningful are happy, better engaged, and able to deliver exceptional results for the business.”.

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Solution Focused Reflective Practice in Collaborative Learning

Be-novative

Collaborative learning - the Core of the Hub We are excited to turn the wheel to interactive use-case driven ‘Spark Creativity’ sessions and dive deep into identifying success factors of remote facilitation techniques with our Partner Hub Members based on their projects, methods and use cases?—?this

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Solution Focused Reflective Practice in Collaborative Learning

Be-novative

Collaborative learning - the Core of the Hub We are excited to turn the wheel to interactive use-case driven ‘Spark Creativity’ sessions and dive deep into identifying success factors of remote facilitation techniques with our Partner Hub Members based on their projects, methods and use cases?—?this

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Learning Platforms and Personal Learning Pathways

Guide 4 Innovating

My mind has been swirling around the significant changes taking place around learning. Not just in the time we have available, suggested recently as 25 minutes per week to stop and learn but in the variety of ways we can learn. I have been struck by the emphasis on personal learning and development. Our learning today is moving into two distinct parts. These are called “ macro-learning ” needs.

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Please, we need a different Innovation narrative

Paul Hobcraft

For me, ecosystem thinking and design are accelerating mutual learning, and through this innovation, outcome potential for sharing and knowledge building. We are shifting critical capabilities that are growing the agility to trial, pilot and learn quickly as information flows in.

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Adapting, Learning and Growing through Uncertainty

ImagineNation

That was before we realized and accepted that adapting, learning and growing through uncertainty could be full of possibilities for reskilling, reinventing in and thriving in a world that would never be the same again. Adapting, learning and growing through uncertainty.

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Adapting, Learning and Growing thru Uncertainty

ImagineNation

That was before we realized and accepted that adapting, learning and growing through uncertainty could be full of possibilities for reskilling, reinventing in and thriving in a world that would never be the same again. Adapting, learning and growing through uncertainty.

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Branding Strategy – 3 Keys to Engaging Your Internal Brand Team

BrainZooming

3 Keys to Engaging Your Internal Brand Team. With that change in perspective, you introduce possibilities for engaging employee in shaping branding strategy. To complement the in-person workshop content, The Brainzooming Group collaborated with Breanna Jacobs at GSMI, the Brand Strategy Conference producer, to publish a new free branding strategy eBook called, “Engaging Employees as an Internal Brand Team: 3 Actionable Strategies.”.

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Future Trends 2021: People Experience and Challenge-based Learning

Be-novative

8+1 Best practices and tips on how to go beyond the engagement of people? From 2021, organizations have an obligation to not just engage (virtually), but empower people every day. LEARN BY EXPERIENCE?—?BY link] ?

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Building out our innovation ecosystem in design and thinking

Paul Hobcraft

For me, ecosystem thinking and design offer fresh ways for accelerating mutual learning, and through this innovation, outcome potential for sharing and knowledge building. Finding the new building blocks of innovation ecosystem design and thinking.

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The Critically Important Innovation Narrative

Paul Hobcraft

A story is linked to a series of events that take a character from one state to another. In contrast, a narrative is a system of stories that links values and events to establish a broader and often new cultural meaning.

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Design Thinking New Ways of Learning & Working

InnovationTraining.org

Since then, I’ve seen many people that I learn from about working and innovating virtually post some of their favorite tools to use. New Learning & Development. I learned a lot from working to apply design thinking for myself in response to the new COVID-19 challenges.

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Technology, inspiration and connected innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Visual from Siemens Digital Industries SPS Event November 2021 The recognizing of digital threads are connected to the new drivers. I have been virtually attending the Siemens SPS Event this week taking technology, inspiration and connected innovation to a new level. The SPS Event.

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Elements of Learning Experience Design

Boxes and Arrows

The purpose of an experience and the platform on which the experience takes place will vary: purchasing a plane ticket on a tablet to vacation, enjoying a musical performance in a theater, or learning to code in a classroom. While Garrett’s “elements” are most relevant to digital product design, I’ve been able to use them as a roadmap for developing learning experiences for adults. Elements of learning experience design. Imagine you’re learning how to drive.

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Achieving a more dynamic innovating environment

Paul Hobcraft

We are continually learning more about all the different tools, techniques, and approaches available for innovation that will certainly help in putting the learning tensions into our work, making them more dynamic, linked, and increasingly relevant to the work-to-be-done.

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Human-centred innovation in a digital world.

Paul Hobcraft

Siemens provided a three-day event showcasing their hardware and software solutions and many other technology innovations. The Siemens Hannover Messe event. Siemens is paying for my engagement, not for promotional purpose.

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We all need a different Social Media profile? Now.

Paul Hobcraft

We are in a very different time, a social distancing time that might lead to a different type of work, one that you will have to be forced to stand out from the crowd as a socially engaged person. This is a time for your social engagement.

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How to Make Your Training Stick: 7 Methods to Transfer & Sustain Learning

CMOE

While this increase can be attributed to various factors, it seems safe to conclude that corporations find value in offering their employees learning and development opportunities and are willing to pay a pretty penny for it. Learning Journal. Reach out on our website to learn more.

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Learning Platforms and Personal Learning Pathways

Guide 4 Innovating

My mind has been swirling around the significant changes taking place around learning. Not just in the time we have available, suggested recently as 25 minutes per week to stop and learn but in the variety of ways we can learn. I have been struck by the emphasis on personal learning and development. Our learning today is moving into two distinct parts. These are called “ macro-learning ” needs.

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The immediate shift in work and social norms needs innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Often you are left wondering where the insights or collective thinking was trying to offset the events that were unprecedented and scary but have now put us into such a massive economic downturn. We need to learn social distancing rules that are for many in Asian societies second nature.

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No thinking time left- help

Paul Hobcraft

They are constantly reacting to daily events, to fix focusing and fixing short-term performance. How can you keep the engagement, how can you find an environment that is creative, stimulating and allows for innovation? Juggling so many crisis events in different ways is exhausting.

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Building our understanding of the factory of the future

Paul Hobcraft

Last week, Siemens had a really valuable virtual event called their “ Digital Enterprise SPS Dialog “ Those that missed it you can watch previous sessions on-demand at any time via “Recordings”. An event showcasing critical aspects of the factory of the future.

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My own transformative dynamics of disruption

Paul Hobcraft

This remote learning stuff has been hard, challenging but stimulating. I wrote about the “ cascading effect” for innovation as “ a sequence of events in which each produces the circumstances necessary for the initiation of the next”. This is my third personal learning point.