Congratulations on joining the Workplace Innovation Foundation Programme. You’ll be part of a growing international community of people creating more productive, more innovative and more exciting places to work.
Workplace Innovation Foundation Status will recognise your knowledge and understanding of workplace innovation practices that transform organisational performance, regardless of sector. By using the resources on our interactive Learning Platform, taking advantage of support from our experts through on-line coaching and forums, and successfully completing your Learning Log and related tasks, you will also achieve the ILM Level 5 Award in Leadership and Management.
Previous participants have said that the programme is inspiring, informative and practical – and we’re sure that you’ll gain some great ideas and practical benefits too. You can always contact us with your feedback.
Overview
Learning Agreement
We aim to ensure that you enjoy the programme whilst significantly enhancing your knowledge, capability, performance and confidence, enabling you to grow and develop through your Workplace Innovation Foundation Programme.
This will require commitment and specific actions from both of us, throughout and beyond the programme. We need to work in partnership to achieve programme learning outcomes as well as your own personal objectives.
Throughout the programme, participants receive support from the Workplace Innovation team through our blended learning approach giving the best possible combination of e-learning, online tutor support, and regular workshops with peer-to-peer exchanges of ideas and experience. We’ll work with you to help understand how learning from the Workplace Innovation programme translates into practical ideas for change
The programme is underpinned by extensive online learning resources describing each aspect of workplace innovation and their interdependencies, enhanced with case examples and practical tools. Each module includes interactive Forums enabling you to share ideas and experiences with other programme participants and the entire Fresh Thinking Labs community. Your activity in these Forums forms part of your assessment.
You will also find a series of Learning Log questions and Reflective Notes, (including guidance), for each module, which you must complete in order to gain accreditation. All Log entries, question answers, Reflective Notes and Tutor comments can be accessed together on your combined Personal Learning Log. You can just add notes and then elaborate on these, and move, copy and paste to organise your text for assessment. You can also attach relevant material to support your answers.
The Module “ Making Professional Presentations” also requires you to prepare and present a presentation to us on the topic of “ People Centred Change, for assessment purposes. Full support and guidance will be given to help you prepare for your presentation.
You gain automatic membership of Fresh Thinking Labs, the international platform for knowledge-sharing between Individuals and companies. Not only does the platform host all the learning resources, case studies and tools for the Foundation programme in a closed Lab, but it also offers an abundance of online resources and opportunities through the FTL Global Community. You can also make contact with other members and share good practice with companies and experts in several countries.
Take full advantage of the opportunities available through Fresh Thinking Labs to enhance your own learning and development, build personal networks!
You may be interested in The Workplace Innovation Diagnostic® which can help organisations acquire an in-depth understanding of where change is needed in order to enhance engagement and performance.
It focuses on workplace practices that enable people at every level to use and develop their full range of skills, knowledge, experience and creativity. The Diagnostic enables you to align individual jobs, teams, line management, organisational structures, procedures, learning, innovation processes and leadership around common principles and values.
The Diagnostic is a unique, on-line employee survey tool, solidly based in research evidence and practical experience. It asks employees and managers to identify their day-to-day experiences of four ‘Elements’, or bundles of workplace practices strongly associated with high performance, engagement and employee health and well-being:
Jobs and Teams
Organisational Structures, Management and Processes
Improvement and Innovation
Leadership and Employee Voice.
Unlike traditional engagement surveys, the Diagnostic provides a clear indication of where changes are needed to achieve this synergy, including the interdependent practices that will affect outcomes. It can be used across the whole company, at department or division level, and/or in individual teams of 10 or more.
The results, shown as red, amber or green scores for 11 specific areas of working practice, indicate the potential for targeted change or consolidation. Findings are broken down by department, team, professional group or other variables provided by you. Discrepancies between senior manager perceptions and employee experience of working practices are also calculated. Findings are correlated with separate engagement, health and well-being scores, enabling users to identify the most effective levers for improvement.
Results from the Workplace Diagnostic are translated into a practical, online action plan template, enabling users to create a clear strategy for effective and sustainable change.
I can understand from the Diagnostic what the genuine pulse of the business is and how it feels. I don’t think I would have done that previously, I would have just kept on blindly continuing thinking everything’s good. Rob Cowman, Engineering Director, East Coast Oil & Gas
We were aware of issues we were seeing in the company just starting to come to the surface. And all of a sudden there was a method of measuring that. We could start to do something about it. Once you can measure it, you can actually analyse it and do something about it. Martin Welsh, MD, Booth Welsh
We should stop pretending that Engagement surveys deliver any change and much less sustainable transformation. This diagnostic identifies where workplace practice can be improved and in doing so delivers a better culture and engagement. Sue Evans, Former HR Director, Warwickshire County Council
Outcomes
You’ll discover the concept and practice of workplace innovation, an evidence-based approach to organisational transformation that leads to high performance and enhanced workforce engagement and wellbeing. Our tried and tested Programmes build on extensive international knowledge and experience – and you’ll be part of a growing global movement!
On successful completion of your Workplace Innovation Foundation Programme, you will:
Have acquired a sound understanding of Workplace Innovation and the workplace practices which create productive, innovative and exciting places to work.
Understand and demonstrate effective, emotionally intelligent leadership behaviours that create and sustain high performing, innovative and engaging workplaces.
Have gained knowledge, skills and practical insights required to lead effective, sustainable organisational change.
Demonstrate the skills and confidence to prepare, design and deliver professional presentations on key aspects of leadership and change.
Feedback
This programme affects the way people involved in change think and act, and gives a power to the change process. Sara Blanco Rodriguez, Kilco..
I can see a difference in the two people on this course and they are keen to see change replicated within the business. It has exceeded all expectations. Martin Welsh, MD, Booth Welsh..
Your Programme Leaders
Rosemary Exton
Rosemary describes herself as passionate, hard-working and caring. Talk to her about workplace innovation and social justice, you’ll soon know just how passionate she is. Spend a day with her and you’ll appreciate how hard-working she is combining managing the business, simultaneously running several research and organisational change projects, being a leading ideas generator and top class tea maker. She also cares. She cares about making workplaces better for everyone, sharing good practices and encouraging creativity and innovation.
Contact: rosemary.exton@workplaceinnovation.eu / +44 (0)7920 529 392.
What makes Harry happy is a passion for helping individuals and organisations develop their potential through expert training, mentoring and coaching, and this is a constant theme in his career.
Working with both private and public sector employers, Harry designs and delivers employee training and development programmes as well as accredited training programmes in leadership & management and theatre-based training workshops.
Contact: harry.gilfillan@workplaceinnovation.eu / +44 (0)7805 121420.
Natalie is an organisational development specialist with particular experience in transformation, change, organisational cultures and innovation. Natalie also focuses on building the emotional intelligence of leaders and teams in ways that make an impact at a fundamental level to the performance and engagement of people throughout the business. She is a qualified and accredited psychotherapist.
Contact: Natalie.wilkie@workplaceinnovation.eu /
Like a stick of rock, break Peter in two and you’ll see ‘Workplace Innovation’ written right through him. He is a passionate advocate of organizational practices that combine high performance and high quality of working life. Peter’s career as a researcher, policy adviser, consultant, conference facilitator and animateur has consistently focussed on building bridges between academic knowledge and practice.
In addition to his passion about positive change in the workplace, Peter has an inexhaustible and profound knowledge of workplace innovation enabling him to not only to speak fluently and effectively on the subject but to effortlessly facilitate conferences and masterclasses in an inspiring and thought-provoking manner.
Contact: peter.totterdill@workplaceinnovation.eu / +44 (0)7887 821388.
Rosemary describes herself as passionate, hard-working and caring. Talk to her about workplace innovation and social justice, you’ll soon know just how passionate she is. Spend a day with her and you’ll appreciate how hard-working she is combining managing the business, simultaneously running several research and organisational change projects, being a leading ideas generator and top class tea maker. She also cares. She cares about making workplaces better for everyone, sharing good practices and encouraging creativity and innovation.
What makes Harry happy is a passion for helping individuals and organisations develop their potential through expert training, mentoring and coaching, and this is a constant theme in his career.
Natalie is an organisational development specialist with particular experience in transformation, change, organisational cultures and innovation. Natalie also focuses on building the emotional intelligence of leaders and teams in ways that make an impact at a fundamental level to the performance and engagement of people throughout the business. She is a qualified and accredited psychotherapist.
Like a stick of rock, break Peter in two and you’ll see ‘Workplace Innovation’ written right through him. He is a passionate advocate of organizational practices that combine high performance and high quality of working life. Peter’s career as a researcher, policy adviser, consultant, conference facilitator and animateur has consistently focussed on building bridges between academic knowledge and practice.