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Write your personal innovation manifesto!

Here's a short example:

I believe that innovation in L&D starts with overcoming my own limiting belief as a professional. It should be rooted in answering real business problems, not in vanity. As failure is an integral part of being innovative, I'll embrace every single one of them until it feels like a natural part of the journey."

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What can you do to consciously train your innovation muscle?

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What can you do to consciously train your innovation muscle?

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Good news: being innovative is not a genetic predisposition 🧬, it is something that can be actively cultivated 💪🏽.

In the PDF you can find some ways to exercise your creative muscle 🎨🖌️, listed from the shortest time investment ⏱️ to the longest one. Now the mic goes to you!

🤔 Do you consciously invest "innovation" time in your busy day?
🤔 What do you do to continuously develop your innovation skills and mindset?

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How can we contribute or be a role model to innovation culture in the organization?

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How can we contribute or be a role model to innovation culture in the organization?

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Let's walk the talk, folks!
In L&D we are at the sweet spot to be the cross-pollinator in the organization.

What can we do? How should we act? Can we do more than just organise "Design Thinking 101" training?

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Collection of innovation stories posted throughout the week

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Collection of innovation stories posted throughout the week

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Do you have any innovation stories you'd like to share with us in the podcast?

We are looking for guest speakers!!
In the comment, please write your full name and a short description of your creative project.

We are looking forward to having you!

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We already have so much content just by gathering everything that people posted throughout the week.

But we want to push it further, because we know there are a lot more of them that needs to be surfaced!

In the comment, please write your full name and a short description of your creative project.

We'll reach out to you :)

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What we are dreaming of:

A virtual card deck generator to prompt fresh, classic and creative ways to learn AND to design learning,
open-sourced, and co-created with the community.

Honestly, we have no idea yet how it's going to look like😆.
But we know we can rely on you when it comes to collecting learning prompts 🤩

Write in the comments if you have one!

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👇 Follow the links to learn more about these creative L&D initiatives:

1. Novartis: https://youtu.be/w7uwBGFXHY8

2. Reddico: https://corporate-rebels.com/how-to-get-promoted-in-a-company-with-no-managers/

3. Patagonia: https://eu.patagonia.com/de/en/environmental-internship-program.html

4. Papercut: https://www.papercut.com/blog/designing-a-job-swap/

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I’m looking to experiment creating microlearning on power skills using TikTok for use at work.

By Guy Stephens

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I worked with a company to do project management for a group of engineers.

For the participants team project/ role play, we had them going to the moon. We divided up in groups like logistics, HR/training, facilities, rocket crew, etc. each group had to plan their schedule, estimate cost & resources, make a work breakdown structure of tasks needed to get to the moon and what happens when you arrive.

So let’s say facilities had to go first to build structures. For people to live and work. The flight crew needed two crews to rotate so lots of training for them. Logistics was all supply chain and resources needed for trip and stay.

So much more but it was fun, and engaging; each team came with a name and assigned colors.
The engineers enjoyed the activity because it was different and it pushed them outside of their comfort zone a little. 🚀🌖

By Crystal Andrus

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I was looking to socialise the evaluation of the performance of our content platform.

Instead of presenting the data, we created an 'ad' (in our organisation's branding) and using the same story telling method. Was really fun!
(And we got more sign ups!) yay!

By Hajira Shaheen

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1. Project Oxygen Mask was a series of Slack posts. 2 posts every week for an entire month. We posted TED talks, tools and frameworks that helped people set boundaries, say no, get through Covid isolation etc.
The comms really hit the mark! :)

2. Similarly in March, we ran the #breakthebias campaign where we did lunch time interviews with people from CALD backgrounds, women in STEM, people with disability, etc. The idea with these interviews was to generate awareness around the different life experiences. I strongly believe that awareness is the first step to recognising bias and improving social equality.

Learning happens in so many ways, I love challenging the ways I present that within my org!

by Hajira Shaheen

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How about a 2day offsite set up as a big learning festival with around 100 out of the ordinary ideas. Mission: disrupt offsite genre.

Just to name a bunch: an entrance through a 200 m. tunnel with lasers and CEO saying the most random positive affirmations on Africa (Toto).

A walk through the woods without any trees in the near surroundings (people themselves being the trees) and paining with natural elements.

A talk in the complete dark, experiencing to switch on your other senses.

A mission to fold 1000 paper cranes. Including a lot of frustration and turning that into a piece of art.

Getting artsy and creating your own manifesto- 10 rules to live by.

A big employee talent show - the Big what’s your weird show. Think firespitting, singing, salsa, tapdancing. And what not.

How about a workshop to create your own documentary: sending folks on a mission to film a couple of minutes (with random props) and then edit it on site, with the big showcase at the end of day 2. Oh the joy of seeing people tape their phone to a broom or skateboard and generate random content.

And I could go on for a while… if I wouldn’t run out of characters ;)

by Moniek Suren

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The last crazy idea I had was to work on creating a certain mood/energy for upcoming meetings through dancing.

I asked the participants form groups according to the #mood they want to create in their life/work/meetings etc.

They formed 3 groups:
💃🕺 The ones who wanted to be more powerful
👯‍♀️The ones who wanted to be more playful
🧘🏻‍♀️ The ones who wanted to be more peaceful

I had prepared three video choreographies- one per mood and each group danced to their choreography!
The rest were cheering them!
I still receive messages from these people, that they do their little dance before an important meeting 🤩

by Lena Nasiakou

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Last year we launched a huge training initiative in my company, which addresses all store employees.
Due to the limited opportunities to do it fully digitally and the huge number of employees we wanted to train we got creative. We launched a 6-weeks program with a learning box.
The box content was a video card, envelopes with learning cards and poster with stickers.

Each week the employees needed to open the weekly envelope, read the learning content, watch the video on the video card and try the newly learned things out (on the job learning).

The poster is for guidance, in which week of the learning the store employees are learning.

This innovative and creative idea surprised a lot of employees and was a lot of FUN 🎉 for them to learn.

by Miriam Klose

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Organised an internal, virtual event end of last year for our EMEA L&D team that brought together only external speakers from a variety of companies including Netflix, LEGO, Mural etc over four half days.
The idea was to get a group of inspirational speakers in front of our L&Ders, speakers they might normally be exposed to. The sole purpose was for these speakers to empower our L&Ders to create their own learning path through the event, their own objectives and the only requirement for them was that they should do one thing differently once they left the event and went back to their day job.

Topics ranged from inspirational (ie. being relentlessly relevant) through to the practical (bringing visual thinking into your work).

The event which had next to no budget will now be going from focus on EMEA to being a global internal L&D event.

by Guy Stephens

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Sometimes the smallest things have the biggest impact.

I’ve seen learning people hangout with help desk to understand the common problems - which they then address with a checklist or quick help, the help desk become part of the learning when they recommend the resources , the calls on that issue go down and the team collaborated on the next one. Simple but when the world is full of expensive online fixes - it was a cost free innovative approach.

Sometimes innovation is about working with others differently!

by Laura Overton

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Digital companion app for distributed L&D onboarding

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Digital companion app for distributed L&D onboarding

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Something we're going to pilot soon is the use of an app that acts as a digital companion for someone who is new to the L&D team in EMEA. The app will allow them to share a selfie of themselves or a short video, do quizzes, meet other team members via video. Looking at this to provide more of a 'social' experience as they go through the usual policies etc.

by Guy Stephens

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I used to work for a major automaker; we had a good training budget but it was far from enough (we had 7k employees). So we used to use the power of peer-learning; and we used to train internal facilitators to spread the word about critical topics. Another situation I remember was (it happened 6+ years ago, so at the time it was innovative haha) putting together an event inspired in Ted Talks: short and sweet interesting content from business to career. It started as a specific need of a certain group of employees that lacked learning opportunities, and the project was so well received that became corporate and we ended up winning a prize as one of the top 3 most innovative learning initiatives of the year from the HQ in France. How awesome is that?!

by Patricia Bittencourt

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Ok sooooo when we were in the office, we were looking to drive behaviours so designed a big gamified nudge 😆

I didn’t call it that of course because I had never read about nudges lol but « the bounty challenge »

Because you’d get rewarded with points for living behaviours that would have a positive impact on you/the company like going for a run or championing a value/impact-focussed way of working.

Our eng team built a Slack bot where people could track their own points which would end up in a spreadsheet if use to recognise the winners weekly with… a bounty bar 😂 they’d get at the all hands on a Friday. Or an apple of course.

By Marie Krebs

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I will put time in my week to look outside my organisation at new and different ways people are delivery and creating training.
I will try some, even if they feel uncomfortable, even if they get poor feedback, I will use that to either fine tune it or pivot to something else next time.
I will trust my instincts as both a learning creator and as a learner myself.

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I'll keep in mind that nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail. There is only make.

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Wow! I loved this resource, thank you for sharing!

🤔 Do you consciously invest "innovation" time in your busy day? Not consciously! But I'll definitely put into practice some of the ideas on this PDF. I specially liked the one on getting a demo account that has nothing to do with my work. I bet it will help me make interesting connections (and bends, brakes, borrows, and bends, as I learned yesterday!)

🤔 What do you do to continuously develop your innovation skills and mindset? I've been working on making experiments that will allow me to try something new while I test an hypothesis. A great framework that I've been using constantly is the Minimum Viable Test by Gagan Biyani. Also, since I know they're experiments, I don't put too much pressure on myself, and just try to embrace a discovery mindset.

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Did you know you can create 3D interactive experiences and embed on your favorite authoring tool (such as Articulate) as a Web Object?

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Spline - 3D Design tool in the browser with real-time collaboration

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Spline is a free 3D design software with real-time collaboration to create web interactive experiences in the browser. Easy 3d modeling, animation, textures, and more.

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Personally, I get most inspired by:
1. People and seeing them "in action", making and creating.

2. Art installations, especially those participative and interactive.

3. Podcasts - there's something very personal in hearing only someone's voice. And I feel their passion and it makes me dream about the impossible 😁

4. I take on stretch projects, especially with the Shakers: building Coaching for L&D, UNCONventional L&D, the idea of the Marketplace, the takeover and so on. All the little projects I say yes to in this community, they allow me to flex my creativity muscle and expand my skillset.

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Any types of small campaign, celebrating people's passion and hobbies beyond the workplace, launching hackathons, play days, creativity days, turn the office into a museum.

The lowest effort thing we could do: create a "Keep curious" Slack channel, invite anyone who would like to join, and share anything creative, out of the box, fun, fresh and exciting - related to work, or not!