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Fresh Thinking Labs is an accessible and targeted platform for everyone looking for ideas and practical support for WORKPLACE INNOVATION. Much more than a database, it builds one-to-one and group relationships. It facilitates dialogue and knowledge sharing between members with common interests and challenges in open or closed communities. Members can also search and connect with other members based on their profile, interests and expertise. Members can take part in Masterclasses, Sofinars and Workshops , and share our unique portfolio of Online learning resources and The Essential Fifth Element Diagnostic to support workplace innovation in their organisation.

Fresh Thinking Lab Facilitators will pay close attention to the needs and interests of members and will regularly identify opportunities for webinars and forums on member-identified themes or facilitated workplace visits hosted by members (at extra cost for Standard and Plus members).

Join, or set up your own, open or closed communities which meet online to explore a specific issue or opportunity together and share knowledge and material.

All Members automatically join the Fresh Thinking Labs Community on registration.

Communities may have wide ranging topics such as:

• Workplace Innovation
• Learning and development
• Self-managed teamworking
• Flat hierarchy / holocracy
• Performance management and appraisal
• Employee-driven innovation
• Shared/distributed leadership
• Interactive Theatre

Facilitated Labs are set up by the Regional Facilitators, who are internationally known experts in Workplace Innovation , to form a close group of Members who wish to share knowledge in a specific field or region.

These may be On-line Facilitated Labs where the members share ideas and knowledge through online discussions, online webinars and online meetings.

The Labs may also be “In Person Labs”, where the group will arrange a number of meetings, usually at members’ sites, as well as having online discussions and sharing of resource material.

Click to see Current In Person Labs

Fresh Thinking Lab members enjoy access to a unique range of opportunities for sharing knowledge and experience, building professional relationships with like-minded people and collaborating with them on issues of common interest.

Open Events are free to all Fresh Thinking Lab members.

In-Person Labs are closed groups of circa 15 companies focused on a specific theme or geographical location. They meet three or four times a year, typically in members’ workplaces, enabling the host to showcase good practices and gain support from the other participants as ‘critical friends’.

Workshops are open to members and non-members, offering a Fresh Thinking Labs ‘taster’ as well as expert-led insights into workplace innovation.

We welcome suggestions from members who may be interested in hosting events.

NB: timing and content of events may be subject to change.

Changing how we create well-being at work - A reflective essay by Neil Devons

The debate examining how ‘good work’ helps to achieve high performing and resilient organisations, as well as enhancing the health and wellbeing of workers at every level, is maturing as more leaders and managers begin to understand the issues they face.

The Essential Fifth Element

The Essential Fifth Element was conceived by Peter Totterdill and Rosemary Exton as a means of enabling employers, employees, trade unions, employers’ organisations, policymakers, consultants, researchers and other stakeholders to co-create a vision of the high performing, empowering workplace.

The Essential Fifth Element Diagnostic Online

Diagnostic tool to help you evaluate how innovative is your company.

Welcome to Fresh Thinking Labs…

Your pathway to the best workplace practices and latest thinking from across Europe and beyond where you can find a place to share experiences and ideas, learn together and gain inspirational insights to build high performing organisations and fantastic places to work.

Preparing to launch!

Fresh Thinking Labs Online is starting the final stages of testing with a number of invited companies using in the beta test site to make connections, form communities and share knowledge and experience. We will be reporting their feedback here over the next month.

The full version of Fresh Thinking Labs Online will launch in the autumn. Watch here for details of the launch activities and offers.

"Critical friends" meet again

Following the successful inaugural meeting of the Creative Workplace Group hosted by the Met Office last June, there have been two further meetings of this In-person Lab. In February the day-long event was hosted by CWG Grimshaw Architects at their London Office. This was followed by a visit to Red Gate, which is a software company providing “ingeniously simple” tools for technology professionals worldwide.

The members of the Labs’s common purpose is how to introduce innovative ways of working and, in particular, how to secure buy-in for change from senior management. At each meeting the members of the lab act as “critical friends” both learning from the practices of the host company and offering suggestions based on their experiences.

For more information contact info@freshthinkinglabs.com

The Good Work, Mental Health and Well-being Lab

We are delighted to be launching the Good Work, Mental Health and Well-being Lab in association with E.ON, GSK and Transport for London.

The Lab is based on a small, closed network of companies and public sector employers committed to exploring and developing future-focused workplaces that generate positive mental health and well-being for all through healthy and engaging work. Good work supports mental well-being for everyone. Employers increasingly recognise the need to identify and support people with mental health problems but the wider task is to identify and address those workplace practices which build or undermine mental well-being