Supporting innovation at work
We held our first ever staff 'Innovation Day' on 10 May 2018 as part of our transformation programme.
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We had 4 keynote seminars from guest speakers. 皇冠体育appse covered subjects such as creating an innovation culture, how to be happy at work, being creative and taking risks.
聽Denise Hampson, Desire Code
Denise is a consultant behavioural economist and service designer. During her talk, she told us how human psychology can help us design great experiences, and how we can use this when we design our services.
聽Steve Dimmock, doopoll
Steve has started a few companies, so he shared his experience about the highs and lows of running a business. His funny and engaging talk looked at how to start and run a business, and how to deal with problems when things do not run as well as they should.
聽Warren Fauvel, Nudjed
Warren spoke about how we can all be more creative, feel better about taking risks, and how to learn from failure. He showed us some useful tools for creativity and innovation in his interactive and entertaining session.
聽Marie Edwards, Academi Wales
Marie鈥檚 interactive session showed us how to use tools and techniques to apply the principles of positive psychology at work. She told us how practical, daily activities could increase your own happiness, satisfaction and success, and how this positively affects other people.
Our Innovation Day let staff try something new and find out how they could work in innovative ways. It was a great way of encouraging a collaborative, creative and supportive work environment.