Friday October 6th 2017, IAA Conference Centre, D’Olier Street, Dublin 2. (8.30am-12.30 pm) Having been appointed as the exclusive Irish partner of Fresh Thinking Labs (FTL), a Europewide platform for facilitating workplace innovation and knowledge sharing between businesses and organisations, Dublin based Stratis Consulting is hosting a launch event on the morning of October 6th, 2017 as it seeks to build a unique network which offers opportunities to share knowledge and experience of workplace innovation. FTL is part of Workplace Innovation Europe Limited and its membership includes both large and small businesses including Aviva, E.ON, GE Transportation, Novozymes, and Saint-Gobain. Its extensive network provides a pathway for businesses to discover the best workplace practices and latest thinking from across Europe. The concept of FTL builds on 25 years’ experience of helping companies and public-sector organisations enhance their competitiveness a..

Gabriella Eberhardt, HR Leader at GE Mining, shares her impressions after our London event 'Transforming Culture at GE Mining'. Interested to learn more? Fresh Thinking Labs is the international platform for company networking and workplace innovation, On Line and In Person: www.freshthinkinglabs.com (http://freshthinkinglabs.com) Please contact us for further information!..

“Workplace Innovation: Creating Performance in the Public Sector” is a two day event organised by EIPA (European Institute of Public Administration) and is aimed at public sector managers who are looking to enhance their leadership skills while improving their ability to drive effective and sustainable change, whether at team level or across complex organisations. Following the European Commission’s EUWIN initiative (http://uk.ukwon.eu/) (European Workplace Innovation Network) that recognised the importance of Workplace Innovation as a means of improving performance and the quality of working lives, the conference is to be held in Maastricht in November specifically targeting public sector organisations. Peter Totterdill, Director of Workplace Innovation Europe CLG and a keynote speaker at the conference said: “For public sector managers who would like to learn how to lead more effective teams and departments, improve efficiency and service qu..

This week’s launch of the Taylor Review Report on Modern Working Practices (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/good-work-the-taylor-review-of-modern-working-practices) is particularly welcome because it refocuses attention on the workplace, and the importance of workplace practices for economic inclusion and health as well as for productivity and competitiveness. The references to “ways of working that support task discretion and involve employees in securing business improvements” are especially pleasing, though given the existence of more than seven decades’ worth of research evidence showing the impact of such workplace practices on health and business performance alike, it will be disappointing if they are lost within Taylor’s vast agenda. As in many such inquiries, the Review sidesteps detailed policy recommendations. This represents a serious missed opportunity, particularly in helping the UK government to understand how it can help ..