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How HR Can Improve Employee EngagementInnovation in HR puts empathy at the heart of engagement, encouraging people to bring their whole self to work. Traditional rules-driven Human Resources practice assumes employees can't be trusted, and being kind to customers and each other is a risk.In Part 2 of my conversation with Hildy Gottlieb from Creating The Future, I'm joined by Charlotte Souch, a friend and colleague who is a HR specialist. It's a frank discussion on how to bring out the best in people. And why trusting someone to be themselves at work, will make them more productive and creative.Be prepared to change your thinking! You'll find a full transcript here https://bit.ly/2I1zWV2 Don't miss the first part of our conversation in Episode 24. bit.ly/2FXtrli If you want to learn more about Creating The Future head to their website. https://bit.ly/2JtRzxf Or connect with Hildy via LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/hildygott... If you'd like to reach out to Charlotte Souch you can email her at charlotte.souch@slingshot.co.nz Or connect with Charlotte on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlotte...

Today I have the pleasure of talking to Hildy Gottlieb. She is a social change theorist, an asker of powerful questions, and an advocate for social movements to create meaningful systems change. In her role as co-founder of the living experiment at Creating the Future, and as an in-demand speaker (at live events and online gatherings) Hildy is helping people re-imagine and redefine the systems they encounter every day, all by changing the questions they ask. This is a great article Hildy wrote "Creating a Better World Means Asking Better Questions". Within it, you'll find links to the questions that's worth downloading. If you want to know more, there's heaps of information on the Creating The Future website.Or connect with Hildy via LinkedIn

Today Eriks and I are joined by Simon Severino – As well as being the CEO of Strategy Sprints. He teaches Growth, Strategy and Innovation at select MBA courses across Europe. It's an interesting discussion on the value of sprints with continuous improvement, that drives sustained business growth and what helps you overcome whatever is thrown your way. You can find out more about Simon on his website strategysprints.com or connect with him on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonseverino/

Today's guest, Lee Foster, began her career as a water engineer. Then she followed her passion for innovation and spent several years researching what makes successful innovation. And the outcome is her own framework Inno Wise. Which picks up from where ideation stops. It helps innovators implement their great idea. She's the founder of Innovate Wisely which helps organisations innovate with knowledge in mind so that they can bring their ideas to life. Lee is also a visiting research fellow at QUT, continuing to develop the understanding of the innovation, knowledge nexus. websitehttps://innovatewisely.com/Linkdedin link to innovate wisely:https://www.linkedin.com/company/innovate-wisely/LInkedin link to Lee:https://www.linkedin.com/in/leefosterinnowise/

Today I chat to Helene Cahen from Strategic Insights. She is an Innovation Consultant, Trainer, Facilitator and Speaker with 20 years of experience helping companies navigate innovation challenges. She guides Fortune 500, small businesses and non-profits to understand innovation, create innovative new products/services, build effective teams and support a user-centered culture. We covered a few topics today, including Human Centered Design, Creativity within teams and her love of The Business Model Canvas. In addition, she has been a facilitator, coach and lecturer for the Haas School of Business and the VP of Innovation for a start-up. She has also spoken at numerous conferences on the topic of design thinking and creativity. Trained in Creative Problem Solving and Design Thinking, Helene received an M.S. in Creativity and Change Leadership from the International Center for Studies in Creativity at Buffalo New York and has a business degree from Sciences-Po Paris, a top French Business School. Helene has put together a special offer for the our listeners to help you grow your business and be more innovative.1- Download and review our Nine Questions to Spark Thinking about Innovation2- Schedule a free 30 minutes consultation with Helene Cahen to discuss your unique challenges related to these nine issues and how they can be addressed by going to https://www.strategicinsights.biz/growth-through-innovation/ Website www.strategicinsights.bizContact https://www.strategicinsights.biz/news-insights/Sign up for our newsletter at https://bit.ly/2N8eD63LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/strategicinsights/Twitter https://twitter.com/@guidinnov

Today Eriks and I are chatting to, Philippe Guichard, who helps entrepreneurs innovate ideas into highly desirable and profitable products. During his 25 years as an award-winning international industrial designer, he's helped clients generate over $200 million dollars in revenue.As a holistic designer, he recognises that an innovative product is only part of a successful business story.He specialises in designing thoughtful and profitable products that form part of integrated marketing, engineering, manufacturing and business model solution. “Good business by design”He thoroughly researches your customers' experience, distribution channels, marketing strategy, manufacturing process, business model and value proposition in order to design (or re-design) a product that is the best choice for your business — the ‘sweet spot'.Working together to create a product that delivers increased sales and has a value proposition that benefits all of your product's stakeholders — not just the end customer. “Planet, people, profit”: A new world of innovationFor almost two years, he's been guest speaking on his design experience and case studies with business and industry leaders, as well as young designers.As a passionate innovation, environmental and social advocate, he also enjoy speaking about the critical role that thoughtful industrial design, manufacturing and business models will play in a challenging future. Reach out to Philippe via LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/pgguichard/ And worth watching his Tedx Talkhttps://www.ted.com/talks/philippe_guichard_re_designing_our_world_small_change_big_impact

What is a social enterprise and how can we use that in our own innovation journey?I very much enjoyed this chat to Tom Dawkins. There's no doubt a lot of opportunities lay in the social space for businesses…Our consciousness has been awaken, even more with Covid… businesses that focus on the social need and are driven to make our world better, will stand out for the right reasons. Tom is Co-Founder and CEO of StartSomeGood, a social enterprise which helps people design, launch and grow social impact projects. They run the Good Hustle social enterprise design course, the StartSomeGood.com crowdfunding platform as well as the annual #StartingGood Virtual Summit. They also power impact accelerators and entrepreneur education programs for partners including Optus, ING, the United Nations Development Program and the City of Sydney. Tom was previously the founder of youth non-profit Vibewire, first Digital Communications Director for Ashoka in Washington DC and the founding Director of the Australian Changemakers Festival.Tom has created dance parties and film festivals, conferences and co-working spaces, fundraising platforms and Burning Man theme camps. He has spoken at numerous global events including SXSW, SOCAP, Purpose, Progress and The Social Enterprise World Forum and has worked with nonprofits, social enterprises and major corporates to better refine their purpose, communicate their story and build their community. You can find out more about Tom ...Good Hustle social enterprise design course:StartSomeGood crowdfunding platform:#StartingGood Virtual Summit:connect with him on Linkedin:And follow Tom on twitter: Hungry for more in innovation? Head to engage4insighs.com for loads of free information and how-tos

Why is it that sometimes we make decisions, and they go from bad to worse?Then, with some projects, you seem to be working so hard, but not getting anywhere.I talked to Amrit Sandhu about these questions, and so much more, in this episode.Amrit is an international speaker, podcast host and founder of the Inspired Evolution. Certified by Eckhart Tolle's School of Awakening, he is also Mindvalley's Master Certified Trainer for Australia & India. Amrit delivers keynotes, talks, seminars and workshops for the Inspired Evolution and Mindvalley in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. His gift for sharing impactful ideas & insights, with unbridled enthusiasm enables him to engage a wide range of audiences from all over the world. From corporate environments to construction sites, teenage programs, festivals, retreats and to the general public. We cover a lot in our short time, topics like… When can stress be a good thing? What's the difference between alignment and flow?And what has the ‘state' of your mind got to do with hustle? Creativity & Flow? As well as how meditation fits into it all.These are just some of the intriguing questions I ask Amrit. Check out the full episode, you'll find it enlightening. You can find out more about Amrit's work at https://inspiredevolution.com/

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much." -I love that quote by -Helen Keller It's so pertinent to my chat today with Kris Ward. She's the founder of Win The Hour, Win the Day, both a platform and Amazon best-selling book, that helps entrepreneurs to systematically grow their business and, oh, by the way, enjoy a personal life too. After the loss of her husband, Kris returned full-time to the marketing & branding agency she had founded years earlier, only to find her business was thriving. She began teaching clients the exact systems & process that had freed her up and helped her during that difficult time and changed their lives in the process. Through sound time management principles - that anyone can easily understand and apply - Kris' clients now had more time, freedom and recaptured the joy & fun they once had when they first started their businesses. Kris and her book have been featured on the award winning Read to Lead podcast, more than a dozen (and counting) top iTunes podcasts, radio shows throughout US and TV shows including The Riley Reports. Win The Hour, Win The Day offers a 4-week productivity plan to go from overwhelmed to highly efficient so that you can reclaim your life. Kris has put together a bunch of free gifts for you…so head to www.freegiftfromkris.com Kris' also got a new program out worth checking out. https://www.winthehourwintheday.com/order-398651981591298001084 Kris is heaps of fun and so passionate about building the right teams to free your time.

Dommonic Nelson Founder & CEO clevtech A budding entrepreneur from the age of 13. He's driven by a desire to improve the lives of others. He graduated from Texas Southern University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Maritime Transportation Management and Security. His prolific work ethic, earned him a full-tuition academic scholarship and the opportunity to be the first African American student in TSU's 72-year history to be selected as an intern by the United States Coast Guard. During his final year, he hatched an idea, and today its a thriving business servicing a great need in our post Covid world. You can find out more about his business at the clev.tech website Or reach out to him personally through LinkedIn It was a joy to chat to Dommonic, so hope you enjoy the show.

Here's a real-world innovation challenge - how on earth do you make this happen? Take top innovators from 11 countries, give them just 2 months, to generate 748 ideas, and decide on 5 practical solutions to the impact of Covid-19. Available free to anyone in the world. Well it's been done! We're privileged today, to share this world-first announcement, from Coenie Middel, Chairman of Middel & Partners in South Africa. Coenie is a Chartered Accountant with a passion for innovation. And he's going to share with us how he organised his new project under great pressure. Coenie founded Middel & Partners as a sole practitioner in 1992.He does not fit the standard mould of a conservative Chartered Accountant. Being awarded as one of the most “Inspiring Accountants in the World” in 2016, highlights a few of his passions for business. Coenie assists companies to innovate, craft business models that deliver value to all stakeholders by linking strategy with resources and core capabilities.Making innovation a key strategy of short- and long-term success, and establishing frameworks for radical and incremental innovation. Coenie is the first accredited FORTH Innovation Methodology facilitator in Central and Southern Africa. He has amassed specialist experience in the Mining, Agriculture, Construction, Healthcare, Public Sectors, as well as the Media & Entertainment industry. Coenie consults to international and nationally listed companies, large private clients, owner managed entities and government. You can find out more about the 5 Business Cases, or reach out to Coenie, head to https://forthinnovation.com

If you feel creativity is out of your reach, then you need to listen and be motivated by this week's episode with Michael Lee, from Create Your Creativity. He's the creator of the Innovation Explosion, a #BeyondDesignThinking workshop that restores your natural creative genius, and helps you maintain it going forward. Participants have doubled their mean creativity scores during the 8-week training. As a Human Capacity Redesigner he helps businesses transform to create and implement breakthrough ideas. Michael is also the Chief Visionary Officer of the Human Innovation Project. Which is a creativity-centred human capacity redesign partnership, helping companies transition to 4IR readiness through high-impact training, consulting, coaching, analysis, and implementation. HIP is a partnership between Create Your Creativity and the South African Creative Industries Incubator run by Beth and Freddy Arendse. They ‘re-humanize' organisations by re-organizing their humans. The unique TRANSFORMATIONAL change management work brings together the best of international innovation strategic and creative expertise, and African indigenous approaches. You can find out more about Michael Lee at https://createyourcreativity.tv/ During the show Michael also talks about his involvement with Kindness Contagion Africa. The UN sent out a call for stars around the globe to share vital information about Covid-19. And Michael has taken action by working with African musicians to create kindnesscontagion.africa The soundtrack will go live on Africa Day 25th May. Hungry for more on innovation? Head to https://engage4insights.com

Is your bright tech idea worth the investment? When we think innovation, many of us automatically think of tech. And there's no doubt that it's driven a lot of cool ideas. Which is why Eriks and I wanted to chat to today's guest, Stewart Marshall from SaaS accelerator. When we think innovation, many of us automatically think of tech. And there's no doubt that it's driven a lot of cool ideas. Which is why Eriks and I wanted to chat to today's guest Stewart Marshall from SaaS accelerator. He's a commercial software expert, innovator and the bestselling author of “Doing IT for Money” He's spent much of his 30 years in IT in the software industry, creating, designing and building rapid development tools. Creating solutions used by thousands of businesses around the world, including Proctor and Gamble, Kawasaki, Kellogg's and many leading banks. You can find out more about what Stewart does atWebsite - https://saasaccelerator.com.au/LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stewart-marshall/

This week's guest, Geoffrey Wade is an interesting guy, which makes this episode entertaining as well as informative. He's led many businesses through change and innovation, and this took him to question risk management as part of innovation. The outcome is a partnership in a program that simulates the innovation. The implications are dramatic…but don't take our word for it…have a listen and gauge for yourself. Geoff brings an unusual and valuable mix of qualifications in science, engineering, business administration, cognitive science, and NLP together more than 30 years commercial experience to give him a unique perspective on innovation in business. His engineering helps him understand the hard, measurable physical aspect of reality and process plus the cybernetics of large, messy, probabilistic systems that are goal oriented (systems like organisations). His business qualifications and experience helps understand the critical business drivers and levers. His human performance studies help appreciate how people make sense of the world, how they know what they know and do what they do, how they achieve high performance, and how they can make fast and lasting change. It is the intersection of these fields that gives him a unique ability to help leaders attend to and master foundations of innovation, high velocity change and quantum leap performance improvement. You can connect with Geoffrey on LinkedIn https://au.linkedin.com/in/geoffreywade And to find out more about his work check out his website https://www.onirik.com.au/ He mentions a game to “Eliciting a Flow State”, if you want to have a play you can download here

This week's guest, JoAnna Brandi from Return On Happiness has the best job title ever - she's a Chief Happiness Officer! We've all experienced that when you're happy and having some fun, life just looks different. Your ability to solve problems, be creative and ultimately innovate, is directly related to how you feel. Creating a happy team is the cornerstone to innovation. Happiness energizes and empowers them while also keeping customers happy. It's a win-win. Happiness is the ultimate competitive advantage. That will increase employee engagement, productivity and accuracy. And a happy team creates a more customer-focused, positive workplace culture, which drives more revenue to your bottom line. Since 1990, JoAnna has been driving cultural change to implement Positive Customer Experiences. For companies that want to thrive, not simply survive. The result? Your employees are engaged, customers are loyal, and competitors are downright nervous. JoAnna has lots of free material on her website https://www.returnonhappiness.com/

Did you know you already have, all the tools you need, to be healthy, happy, creative, all those really valuable parts of life. You don't have to buy anything, you can start doing it, right now. My guests today Angie & Shane Saunders are founders of Breathe Me, they're Award Winning Authors and host their own Podcast The Breathing Edge. Shane's experience starts with 13 Years in the Australian Defence Force, military training at the highest level, SAS, tactical assault, special forces, and military duty in the Middle East. Angie left working in LA with some of Hollywood's top producers to start a new life in Australia. They left their old lives behind to teach people, how to use breath, to literally change the way you live. And I've seen this in action myself, so I know it works. Learning to breath, for those of you new to doing more than just what comes naturally, might seem a bit crazy. So I just ask you to have an open mind, and let's uncover the secrets together. You can connect with them through their free online traininghttp://bit.ly/breathe-through-turbulenceOr, via their Facebook page and websitehttps://www.facebook.com/breathemepage/https://www.breatheme.com/

There are lots of aspects to running a business. But one I personally feel gets left out of the early stages, are systems. That's not taking the creative out, but in fact allows you more room to be creative. Systems are an integral part of all business … well the ones that are successful! In this episode Eriks & Judy talk to David Jenyns seasoned entrepreneur, spanning from retail, to founding one of Australia's most trusted digital agencies, Melbourne SEO & Video. As well as an Amazon bestseller. And the person behind SystemHub. An innovative approach to managing systems. To quote Benjamin Franklin … “Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship” This to me can be how systems and processes are viewed by many business…it's a small thing, we'll get to that later. David shares practical tips on implementing your own systems. You'll gain valuable insights no matter what size business you operate. You can find more information about David and his SystemHub at https://www.systemhub.com/ And his Systemology process at https://www.systemology.com/

At Engage2Innovate Podcast we've made a commitment to bring ideas and inspiration to listeners when they need it. Covid-19 Creative Think Tank is the first in a series delving into the biggest issues facing business today. The disruptive effect of Covid-19 has been swift, cutting a brutal swathe through everyday life, the community, and economy. On the back of a horrendous summer, businesses are hanging by a thread. We're all on edge. And when running a business, you have multiple pressures to protect your family, team, and the enterprise. A time when you most need support, hope, inspiration, ideas – solutions for survival.

Innovation isn't just about inventing something totally new. It's often more to do with reinventing, which is Elizabeth Diacos' specialty.She's the founder of Larksong Enterprises, and an educator and success coach. “I love learning and hold a Graduate Certificate in Organisational Coaching and a Master of Applied Positive Psychology. I help teachers from across the globe to get out of teaching.” An idea that leads to innovation often comes to us when we are dissatisfied in our current situation, which is where Elizabeth steps in. And even though she specialises in helping teachers, her insightful tips apply to any industry. Here are ways to reach out to Elizabeth and find out more … The rapidly growing Get out of Teaching group of over 2000 members: https://www.facebook.com/groups/getoutofteaching/Website: www.larksong.com.au And soon-to-be-launched “Get out of Teaching” podcast www.larksong.com.au/podcast

Eriks and Judy chat to Geoff McDonald - an interesting guy. He's a trained Architect, but now calls himself an Ideas Architect.His work is a combination of presentations, writing and creating information products for clients.Geoff has presented at international design conferences and a range of clients, including American Institute of Architects, NEC, Leadership Development Centre, AIM, Melbourne Business School and James Hardie.His creative presentations have included a quiz night, game show and diagnostic tools, and he has also facilitated a range of strategic planning events and presented over 100 webinar sessions.Geoff is also a prolific writer, to say the least - the author of ten books, over 80 ebooks and more than 1000 blog posts. His topics include design, productivity, creativity and big picture business trends.He's an avid reader and best known for his Book Rapper book summary service - downloaded over 100,000 times and distributed through syndication. Currently, Geoff is coaching business experts to create a manifesto as their big business idea. This is a fun chat exploring innovation & creativity that's guaranteed to motivate!You access all things Geoff McDonald via his website https://geoffmcdonald.com/