September 2015 Issue 4 Inside this issue:
Welcome to the September newsletter of the Innovation Programme! It is easy to slip into viewing innovation as big, world changing activity but innovation is simply all about doing something different or new.
an anti-bullying strategy and coming up with new ways to engage staff. The role of each group is to generate ideas and activities. Although we know that many of these ideas will not work In order to innovate we need a that should not prevent us from ‘can do’ attitude and to be giving things a go. (See Page 3) empowered by our managers and A recent workshop looking at senior leaders to try new things. failure taught us that the way we A lot of work is currently respond to mistakes and failure underway to help drive this is very important. (See Page 2) agenda forward. Learning from these experiences,
Do you love the F word?
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Driving Innovation and Staff Empowerment forward
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Innovation in Poverty and Prevention
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Don’t Blame the Council?
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Contact the team
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Supporting you through change
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The Innovation Community are and one another, is a key theme busy working with the Chief moving forward. Executive on key issues such as
Fancy a coffee? What contains caffeine, takes under an hour, and has a positive impact on your work? A Randomised Coffee Trial!! A Randomised Coffee Trial aims to get people together to discuss their work or anything else—they are random! The idea originated at Nesta, an innovation charity, as a way to create connections across the organisation. How do they work? 1.
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You sign up to having a 30—60 minute conversation once a month (face to face, over telephone or skype) You are randomly assigned somebody to have a conversation with
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You talk to each other!
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And repeat!
Why should we bother? They are a simple and effective way to network and learn within the workplace, According to Nesta benefits include:
Totally random conversations, as well as some very useful work related conversations, which break silos in a really effective way
Offering the chance to make time to talk to people you should be talking to anyway and to meet people you wouldn't ordinarily work with
A really good way of revealing and developing links within the organisation
Fancy finding out more? purple.room@swansea.gov.uk to involved.
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Nesta, the Red Cross, LocalGov Digital and Wales Audit Office Good Practice Exchange are all doing it! Are you?!