The People Innovation Podcast

Leading Your Innovation Ecosystem

It's been a while, but The People Innovation Podcast is back! Season 3 focuses on Leading An Innovation Ecosystem. We're taking the audio from our popular webinar series and making it easily accessible for you where you are, when you want to listen to it. In the first episode of the series, we cover what makes innovation thrive in an organisation and, crucially, how to lead for these elements of the Innovation Ecosystem. Joe and Zac from The Innovation Beehive outline:  * how a clear direction ensures people in the business know how to channel their creativity to solve problems that matter * the importance of creating a leadership and cultural environment that encourages innovation * how to build and sustain an innovation engine to enable ideas to move from inception to implementation * what enablers people need in order to innovate effectively If you want to explore the Innovation Ecosystem in your organisation, try our free diagnostic here: https://scorecard.innovationbeehive.co.uk  [https://scorecard.innovationbeehive.co.uk]

Season Two: Team Based Learning with Steve Cayzer

Steve Cayzer is a Senior lecturer in engineering management at the University of Bath for 10 years. Steve has a PHD in Computational neurobiology and he moved into IT consultancy working in the Energy and Utilities sector, then on to Hewlett Packard before moving to the University.  We recorded this episode just before Clayton Christensen died. The whole world of innovation breathed a sigh of sadness at his loss. In his words "It's easier to hold your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold them 98% of the time." He absolutely lived his principles. Rest in peace. Listen out for: R&D isn’t just about proving something about data it can also be about strategic data.  Three trends in teaching: * Scale  Universities have been increasing student numbers ( In Australia high numbers 1500 on one course ) and its impact on learning e.g. Moods / Gatekeeping students * Increase in Diversity sometimes it can be seen as a limitation eg. language barrier / flip it to insight someone might have about how to deliver a product in a certain country. * Inclusive Design eg. in the classroom if you deliver content that is written clearly for non-native speakers it will help everyone - The increasing need for people to have real-world impact - what you know, what you can do and how you can behave. Can graduates formulate solutions? Attitude to failure, personal development and growth? - Problem-based learning - we can do better in class that just talking at students. Idea is you give students a fairly large problem and the students access it in a pull basis - Team-Based Learning - more structured and it had some advantages in building team development. How do you deliver to large groups - the advantage is you have a large number of smart motivated individuals who have chosen to come to the same place at the same time. Therefore how can we harness that.  - Transformative use of teaching - passivity and anonymity  - Readiness Assurance Protocol - discussed within team-based learning that Steve implemented with his teams  - Assessment of courses how it is tied to teaching eg. real-world case study Website: University of Bath  [https://www.bath.ac.uk/] Steve Cazer Linked In [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevecayzer/?originalSubdomain=uk] Social Media: Twitter  [https://twitter.com/innovationbee] Facebook  [https://www.facebook.com/theinnovationbeehive/]

Season Two: Social Entrepreneurship and Circular Economies at The University of Bath

Season 2  Welcome to another episode of the Innovation Beehive in our Learning and Development Series. Today Joe Nagle is speaking to Mehrnaz Tajmira  a PHD Student In Operations and Supply Chain Management at the University of Bath. Current studying Food waste and Innovation ( Background in Mechanical Engineering) and Henrietta Sherwin, Research Associate on Social Enterprise and Social Enterprise programmes in the School of Management at the University of Bath Listen out for:  * Barriers for Start ups  - Henrietta discusses research speaking to people at six month and 1 year interviews and using ecological models to work out how to better support this diverse body.  Failure is a lot to do with people’s personal circumstances. There is a problem is everything is very fragmented within the Social Enterprise and Charity sector * What is a Social Entrepreneur  * The power of the Entrepreneurship - Learning by doing is fantastic for young people. A lot of people in University don’t think it’s possible for them.  * Case Study of 'Cycling for Bath' - Discussion about the 'tipping point' from social influence and research * Food Waste research - Aim to innovate through more mechanisation, waste processing facilities.  1/3 of the world's produce is going to food waste * Circular Economy - A New wave of innovation firms eg. Toast Ale, Rubies in Rubble  * Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship * Vertically integrated projects - only 1 UK University teaching this way - Strathclyde University Website: University of Bath  [https://www.bath.ac.uk/] Social Media: Twitter  [https://twitter.com/innovationbee] Facebook  [https://www.facebook.com/theinnovationbeehive/]

Season Two: Holistic Development with Roger Mason

Welcome back to Season Two where our focus is on Learning and Development and our guest is Roger Mason Head of Learning and Development at Reed Global. Reed was set up in the 1960’s by Sir Alex Red, still run by the Reed family and has since expanded into Europe and Asia. Reed is a business is one that started before the internet age that has transitioned to be a leader online. Roger talks about how one of the biggest things that informed Reed’s strategy are the needs of the business. He talks about how learning is hard to measure and how expectations haven’t existed on how to measure the impact. There is much more focus now on performance, so learning with an outcome. He explains how conversations at Learning conferences are moving from Gamification and e-learning modules off the shelf to train compliance to AI, Analytics and robotics Listen out for : * Holistic Development - developing the whole person eg. Mentor Programme * Discussion of cost of Mental Health problems on the economy ( £35 billion a year up from 26 million 10 years ago) * Reed Mentoring Programme - they aim to pair people with others who are further along. Specific programmes for Graduates, Women aspiring for Leadership. * Training provided to Mentors and Mentees. * Details of the Apprenticeship provided * The ambiguity of Holistic Development * Nailing the basics & Start Small * The Future of L&D * The machines are catching up Website:  Reed Global  [https://www.reed.co.uk/] Social Media: Twitter  [https://twitter.com/innovationbee] Facebook  [https://www.facebook.com/theinnovationbeehive/]

Season Two: Miranda Burgum

Miranda Burgum - Head of People Welcome to Season Two of The People Innovation Podcast, where host Joe Nagle is in conversation with Miranda Burgum, finding out about Gail’s 52 bakeries in local neighbourhoods striving to provide exquisite coffee and bread's for people to enjoy.  When Miranda joined she described it as being given a blank piece of paper to create a structure to suit the significant growth in its entirety and from a people perspective. Listen out for: * 3 things that I follow: attracting the best people, training our talent, engaging with our teams * Making sure the team were well equipped to go on a journey * Customer service programme - SHINE Topics Discussed: * Creation of a three-year strategy to land the basics and evolve and be a great place to work and grow * The mother dough… * Four values: we care for baking, we care for our community, we care for each other and we care for a job well done * Recruitment at Gail's - Job descriptions are very task orientated. Managers are aware they will recruit based on instinct, behaviour, how they demonstrate themselves on an 'experience' shift * Internal comms - facebook group Gails’ Together * Kneading your Career - development programme * Rise with Gails LINKS: Innovation White Paper  [https://www.innovationbeehive.co.uk/white-papers/] Gail's  [https://gailsbread.co.uk/] Social Media: Twitter  [https://twitter.com/innovationbee] Facebook  [https://www.facebook.com/theinnovationbeehive/]