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🚀 Struggling to manage ideas efficiently? Let AI do the heavy lifting! Introducing AI Auto-Populate—our latest AI feature designed to streamline idea management and unlock powerful insights with ease. AI Auto-Populate automatically enriches your ideas with key details like benefit types, themes, and strategic goals—helping you prioritize, take action, and analyze effortlessly - see our infographic for six powerful examples of how it can impact your business. In summary, here's how it can help businesses manage employee ideas: ⚡ Save time and boost efficiency - categorize ideas in seconds, cutting out manual data entry. 📊 Instant insights - gain deeper insights, driving smarter decisions. 🤖 Automate idea management - link AI-enriched ideas to workflows and let automation do the rest. Ready to work smarter, not harder? Get in touch with us https://bit.ly/4cVdyFs #AI #Innovation #IdeaManagement #Efficiency #Automation #Sideways6 

There's still time to reserve your place at our Ideas for Breakfast event in London on the 12th September. But, we only have a few spaces left! So, if you're looking at how you can start, or scale, transformation in your business with employee ideas, here's 5 reasons attending is worth your time: 1. Michelle Rivera-Spann, our guest speaker, shares how Taylor & Francis Group are implementing around 20% of ideas, and the transformational impact this is having on the business. 💫 2. We share new ways to review ideas, involve subject matter experts and get the best ideas over the line. 💫 3. Network with like-minded leaders from incredible, forward-thinking brands with leaders from BP, Nestlé, NHS, Currys, The Berkley Group, Balfour Beatty, Dogs Trust, DXC, Amey, to name a few, attending. 💫 4. You will genuinely get some great takeaways from the session. We also share these with you after the event - (read more testimonials on our registration page, linked below).💫 5. There's no better place to learn, share and get inspired than from the 50th floor in the heart of the city.💫 So, will we see you there? We hope so! https://bit.ly/3AT8Sm2

🚀 Londoners: Elevate Your Morning with Us on September 12th! 🚀 We’re taking our 🌟 free 🌟 roundtable breakfast event to new heights (literally, the venue is on the 50th floor in the heart of London). Join us for a morning filled with great food, unique insight and inspiration with incredible views of London. If you’re passionate about turning employee ideas into impactful business outcomes, keep reading, or click the link below to learn more: 👉 Learn more and register https://bit.ly/4drwOLO This session is all about transforming employee ideas into tangible business results. Along with a delicious breakfast, we’ll be serving up strategies that have proven to drive success in employee idea initiatives. 🎤 Special Guest: Michelle Rivera-Spann, VP of Business Advancement at Taylor & Francis Group, will join us to share how she’s engaged 64% of their workforce in ideation, fostered a culture of collaboration and innovation, and driven real business impact. And if you need more reasons to attend, here are our top five: 1️⃣ Discover real examples of successful idea campaigns. 2️⃣ Learn the latest ideation tactics that are delivering results for enterprises. 3️⃣ Exchange challenges and solutions on common challenges with industry peers via our roundtable sessions. 4️⃣ Get top tips for starting or enhancing your employee ideas program. 5️⃣ Network with forward-thinking leaders. Spaces are limited and our last event filled up quickly, so be sure to secure your spot early! #BusinessTransformation #EmployeeIdeas #ChangeManagement #Innovation #EmployeeEngagement #BreakfastEvent #London

In the words of Joey Tribbiani, you have got to listen! In this case... to your employees! Join us tomorrow for Episode 1 of The Idea Exchange, our new webinar series, where we share how you can do just that! 🙌 Creating Buy-In: How Employees' Ideas Drive Successful Change Who's on the session? 🛫 Vueling Airlines' Head of Transformation, Veronica Hull, shares insights on the airline's employee-driven journey of transformation and innovation. 💡 Sideways 6 CEO, Will Read, on the why and how to build a culture of listening through ideas. 🤝 Interact Software's Head of Strategic Consultancy, Adam Schoor, shares how to approach, collaborate and involve Internal Comms when pushing forward ideas. It's going to be a good one! 👉 Register here: https://bit.ly/4dow9KT

🎉 Exciting News! 🎉 We're thrilled to introduce Communities – a brand-new area in our Ideas App for Microsoft Teams that's set to transform how employee ideas are organized, discovered, and utilized across your organization. TL; DR: Communities are ideal for companies with multiple business units and regions looking to run and manage more idea programs effectively, enabling your entire organization to benefit from the collective power of employee ideas. What Communities Offer: 🔹 Build a Culture of Ideas: Empower more managers and leaders to benefit from the power of employee ideas, extending the value of ideas beyond the central team. 🔹 Structured Organization: Create dedicated, branded spaces to launch and manage multiple idea programs. 🔹 Enhanced Discoverability: Boost campaign awareness and interaction throughout your organization. Get started: 👉 Book a demo: https://hubs.ly/Q02HpjJd0 👉 Or find us on Microsoft Teams: https://hubs.ly/Q02HpjHK0 #employeeengagement #innovation #businesstransformation #employeeideas #collaboration #microsoftteams

💡 We are super excited to announce the launch of a brand new webinar series, #TheIdeaExchange in partnership with Interact Software. A space created where leaders can: - Listen, share and ask about successful crowdsourced employee idea programs - See actual examples of how campaigns are structured - Get valuable learnings from those that have launched, improved and scaled employee idea programs to drive change at their company. All free, all online. 👉 link to register (it's free!): https://hubs.ly/Q02G9j-70 The first webinar is on 🗓️ 30th July, on: Creating Buy-In: How Employees’ Ideas Drive Successful Change'. 🛫  We’ll be checking in with special guest Veronica Hull, Head of Transformation at Vueling - who'll be sharing how her #MakeItBetter program has taken off, engaging over 50% of the workforce and fuelling change for the business. Also on the panel: 💡 Will Read - CEO at Sideways 6 - highly experienced developing employee idea programs to help the likes of M&S, Nestlé, British Airways, Diageo and more to innovate, transform and improve. 💡Adam Schoor - Head of Strategic Consultancy at Interact Software - who has a wealth of knowledge in enhancing employee engagement and fostering a culture of collaboration from working with with big names like Levi Strauss and Baptist Health. It’s going be be a good one! Link to register at the top of this post and ✨ P.S. do tag anyone who might benefit from this webinar! #businesstransformation #employeeengagement #theideaexchange #employeeideas

Don't take our word for it: here's Rachel Shore at Sir Robert McAlpine's thoughts on leading change with flexibility and adaptability. Your insights are our inspiration! #Innovation #EmployeeEngagement #ideamanagement #Employeeideas

Spot the kilt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿! The [non-stop] rain has certainly not dampened the energy in the room at today’s Comms event hosted by Interact Software. Some incredible learnings and conversations on how internal comms, people and engagement teams of all sizes are managing change, growing pains, doing more with less, showing value, linking their work to company objectives and keeping momentum going on their initiatives. We also learned that there is no Gate 8 at Edinburgh Airport and that Taylor Swift will stop at nothing to stay at Balmoral Hotel when on tour! All set in a a stunning location at The Balmoral in Edinburgh- we’re already looking forward to the next one! Special shout out to those that made it happen: Emma Bramwell, Greg Stortz Jemma Goodman, Erin Caldwell, Sean Breza, Kris Morrison, Daniel Hucker, Haydn Smith, Daryll Morrow and Philippa Pollock

🌼 Spring has sprung and it's time to face that blank page and start the project you've been putting off. In today's newsletter we aim to inspire you with short articles and a video on everything you need to kick start that employee ideas initiative you've been thinking about for months. Enjoy...

🤔 Why should you care about Employee Ideas? Hear from Idea Managers at and Managing Director Jeremy North @ Taylor & Francis Group about the impact of their Employee Ideas Program 'Ignite'. #Employeeideas #collaboration #innovation #