The Fresh Thinking Labs Events programme 2017

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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.

Theme	Format	Venue	Workshops
November			Nottingham (7th November) Helsinki (9th November) Creating Innovative and High Performing Workplaces.
December	Scotland Venue to be confirmed. Webinar Leading Empowered Organisations.
January	Vilnius Arginta Engineering: High Involvement Improvement and Innovation.	Good Work & Mental Well- Being Launch meeting (Host: E.ON, UK)	Vilnius Creating Innovative and High Performing Workplaces.
February	Webinar	Employee-Driven Innovation Launch meeting (Host: TBC)
March	1st-3rd March, Copenhagen Two-day event: Ideation Platforms and Cultures of Innovation. Hosts: Danish Technological Institute & Novozymes.	Employee Representative Forums & Direct Participation Launch meeting (Host: TBC)
April	Tallinn Proekspert: Organisation Design in an IT Company.	Good Work & Mental Well- Being Second meeting (Host: Transport for London)
May	9th-10th May, Transforming culture at GE (Host: GE HQ, London)	Employee-Driven Innovation Second meeting (Host: TBC)
June	14th-15th June, San Sebastian Ederfil Becker: Self-Managed Teamworking in a Flat Organisation.

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

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

2017	Open Events	Description
February	22nd-23rd February, Nottingham E.ON: Diversity, Inclusion and Culture	EON is one of the UK's leading power and gas companies - generating electricity, and retailing power and gas. The company has been passionate about Diversity and Inclusion for many years and has won several awards for its initiatives in this area. During this event E.ON will examine the question: “how do you embed Diversity and Inclusion in the very DNA of an organisation – and reap the resulting benefits in terms of enhanced engagement and business performance?”
March	8th-9th March, Copenhagen Two day event: Collaborative Workplaces of the Future with the Danish Technological Institute & Novozymes	Denmark’s capital has become an innovation hotspot and host to some of the world’s most innovative and creative companies. Inspired by exciting companies and leading experts we will immerse ourselves in an intensive two-day programme featuring speakers from IKEA, Hitachi, Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies, ISS, VELUX and more. We will network and learn how to make our workplaces more collaborative and engaged in creating innovations that excite our customers, including interactive learning sessions and hands-on workshops.
July	12th-13th July, London *Transforming Culture at GE Mining*	GE Mining is on a journey to build purposeful, high performing teams dedicated to winning together. That involves trust, moving away from performance rankings towards mutual accountability and a commitment to delivering for each other. For example, GE’s Performance Development tool leverages horizontal feedback, helping people to understand their impact on others.
September	26th - 27th September, Tallinn *Designing Organisations for Empowerment and Competence Development*	In 2014 Estonian software development company Proekspert announced that it had become a manager-free, flat organisation… and won first place at the ‘Employer of Your Dreams’ 2014 competition in the business sector category. Staff are invited to “organise your own work, choose your own tools, and communicate directly with your clients”. So how do you embed – and sustain – such a change?
TDB	Autumn 2017 The Good Work and Mental Well-being Lab: Opening Workshop*	Fresh Thinking Labs and Mindful Employer are delighted to launch the Good Work and Mental Well-Being Lab in association with Macmillan Cancer Support, E.ON, Jacobs and TNO (the Dutch national research organisation). A highly interactive event combining insights and knowledge from leading experts with opportunities for participants to learn about each other and to share practical experience.

The Fresh Thinking Labs Events programme 2017 from Eduard Iacob's blog