“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas”

How many times have you been in a company-wide brainstorming session and wondered what would happen to all of those great ideas? 

Have you ever been the poor soul who was in charge of documenting the ideas and sharing them with the group? 

How many times did those ideas accumulate in the form of dusty post-it notes that just sat around only to end up in a recycling bin? 

"The best way to have a good idea is to have LOTS of ideas" - Linus Pauling

Ever wonder what those ideas could have accomplished if given the chance?

We are delighted to launch this Innovative Brainstorms tool – an enterprise application designed to give ideas a place to live and breathe and make complex problem solving simple. This tool has been hard at work helping some of today’s leading innovators deploy Brainstorms to solve challenges big and small. And today, some of the world’s brightest minds are sharing ideas on this platform – including Arup, Daimler, BP, Intel, TEDx and the innovative collaboration between NASA, USAID, Department of State, and NIKE called LAUNCH.

One of the key insights is that teams who openly share ideas and thinking are more likely to come up with well-rounded solutions to their biggest challenges. This Brainstorming tool enables teams to do just that – openly share ideas. Today, teams are using Brainstorms as fuel for their next marketing campaign, to inspire new products and services, or to discover the next big thing.

Here are 3 ways you can kick off a brainstorm to tackle your biggest challenges:
 

• Internal brainstorms: Use Brainstorms to break down geographic and business unit silos by getting everyone working together on a specific challenge.

• Partner brainstorms: Create a virtual brainstorm with key partners, distributors, industry experts and thought leaders who share your desire to solve a specific problem.

• Public brainstorms: If you really want to solve a problem, don’t just get insights from your team and partners. Engage your customers, event attendees or even the public at large.

We believe in the power of ideas to fundamentally change the way the world does business. The right approach can help break down the barriers that keep your best ideas locked in silos and help you easily engage across teams, partners and customers. But the best ideas only thrive if they’re brought to life through real-time collaboration and idea sharing.

So what are you waiting for? 

Join the world’s most innovative teams and start brainstorming today.

For more information click on Because Ideas Matter!

                                                           

Wright Solutions is a specialist HR Consultancy. We attract, place and develop the highest calibre candidates in Executive, HR and Learning & Development roles. Our service is more than recruitment with our training solutions that give Leadership and Management teams the competitive advantage for today and tomorrow.

 

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Flipboard & Wright Solutions

Flipboard is one of the webs best reviewed Social Media tools. It collects the content of Social Media and other websites and presents it in a useful and accessible format direct to your ipad/tablet/smartphone/PC/Mac.

We  have created our own Flipboard magazine to keep you suitably updated about developments in HR, Recruitment, Talent Development and Business.

Have a look (you can also subscribe to it) and we also recommend you take time to explore the full app and follow other users and their magazines (Topics range from new technology to vintage motorcycles)! 

                                                           

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Free Webinar: Compliance Training - A Game Changer?

Gamification of compliance and regulatory training could save organisation millions of pounds in fines.

People absolutely hate compliance training, they don’t remember it and they don’t take it seriously, yet it is costing organisations massive amounts of money and reputations. 

By introducing game elements to compliance training employee engagement can be increased, with real time analytics also generating data that can be used by organisations.

Our FREE 20 minute webinar will demonstrate how we have created data-rich compliance games based on regulatory rules, combining a user-friendly interface with narratives based on real life compliance failures, and 'gamified' tasks designed to keep users attention.  

Gartner has predicted that 40 percent of Global 1000 organisations will use gamification as the main method of transforming business operations by 2015

Find out how you can better identify and manage your risk through gaming technology. 

Webinar Dates:

26^th March -  4.45pm GMT (20 minutes) 

27^th March -  8.45am GMT (20 minutes) 

MORE DATES TO BE CONFIRMED FOR THE FUTURE.

You can register your interest for future dates by registering with us. 

Register NOW.

Call Paul Wright on 0121 222 5599 or email: info@wrightsolutionsltd.com

                                                           

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App Turns 'Dull' Employee Training Into a Game

Compliance training will never be the same again! We have leveraged mobile apps to turn compliance testing into a game-like experience in an effort to make mandatory training less tedious to employees. The app has the look and feel of a computer game but provides employees with training on topics things like Information and data security, sexual harassment and compliance. 

Instead of reading boring documents or watching corporate videos, “training” can now be completed in 15 minutes of gameplay. Employers can measure the progress of players, and the app is compatible with both iOS and Android apps and can be played on any computer hooked up to the web. Training games can also be customised based on a company’s needs.

While training may never be fun, we think a gaming aspect is more memorable than flicking through a flash-based lesson or conventional presentation.

Two things underpin the approach. The first is that playing games engages people in solving problems and motivates them to do it. Alongside that is the story-telling aspect, which improves people’s recall of what they learn. So we can take something dry about insider trading or Sarbanes-Oxley [American accounting regulations] and slip that into a game, a story, and we know that people are much more likely to remember it than with other forms of training.

To see the apps in action call Paul Wright on 0121 222 5599.

 

                                                           

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Wright Solutions : Proud Sponsors of....

Hopefully you have seen our profile in The Birmingham Post today (Page 22 / online to follow)

It comes as part of our announcement that we are now the Proud Sponsor of The Medium to Large Business Award at Birmingham Post’s Business Awards in2012.

The article is picks up on our belief that Innovation has always (and will always) be a key factor in the success of a business.

 

                                                           

Proud sponsor backing firms punching above their weight.

For Paul Wright – managing director of Wright Solutions – to understand the real strengths of the region’s business community it is important to step back in time. The HR recruitment and training specialist was established almost 15 years ago but it is the businesses set up more than two decades ago from which he draws his inspiration.

“Back in 2010 Wright Solutions, in partnership with the BirminghamPost, ran a series of business training events focused on innovation,” said Mr Wright. “One of the key note speakers was renowned historian Carl Chinn who highlighted some of Birmingham’s remarkable industrial history. He talked about how whilst once only a small medieval market town, by 1791, Birmingham had helped lay the foundations of modern industrial society. And it did this not because it benefitted from proximity to any great natural resource but through the entrepreneurial spirit, innovation and creativity of its workforce.

“Things may have changed since 1791 when Birmingham was known as ‘the City of 1000 Trades’ but as it remains an international commerce centre it is clear that the West Midlands’ businesses and its workforce continue to innovate and punch well above their weight at a global level.

“Wright Solutions is proud sponsors of the Medium to Large Business Award at Birmingham Post’s Business Awards in 2012 and looks forward to joining them in celebrating the continued resilience and fortitude of business in the West Midlands. But more than that, we are proud of the support that we have been able to give many of those businesses in recruiting and developing their talented workforces.”

Wright Solutions is a specialist HR Consultancy which attracts, places and develops the highest calibre candidates in Executive, HR and Learning & Development roles. Providing national coverage from its office in Birmingham, it has been operating since 1998.

Its training solutions team provides high quality, bespoke and innovative learning solutions that create more successful individuals, teams and innovative work places. Its approach is tailored to each specific requirement and success comes from a combination of the following: 

• Deliver business results

• Successful innovation

• Compliance training apps.

Mr Wright added: “Our team of experienced recruitment consultants is used to working with businesses and organisations of varying size and industry sector. Working as a team ensures that our experience and knowledge of the recruitment sector is shared by us to the benefit of our clients and candidates. We recruit executive and senior management, rewards and remuneration, OD, resourcing and talent acquisition, employee engagement, HR and learning and development.

“We are a down to earth business that prides ourselves in our ability to “add value” to our clients by offering straight forward advice and consultancy.”

For a confidential discussion about how Wright Solutions can work with you call 0121 222 5599 or www. wrightsolutionsltd.com

 

                                                           

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Game over for dull training

Wright Solutions has recently launched a portfolio of Compliance Training Apps. These are mobile compliance games that help organisations identify risk & save money and transform mandatory compliance training into a fun, intelligible and quantifiable experience

This is an exciting and innovative product that we feel is the future of training. 

We were going to write a long and detailed blog explaining why and then we noticed a Sunday Times article that sums it all up.

Game over for dull training

Rule books and boring videos are out. Web and mobile applications that simulate real-life work challenges are the future

Compliance training is tedious. Nobody wants to spend more time than they have to in a windowless room with a folder full of notes and a check list. Certainly not if the alternative is quizzing an attractive woman about her relationship with a powerful man, or combing a colleague’s office for incriminating evidence?
 

 
The logic behind these unique Apps is that they look and feel like a computer game but provide training in how to investigate what may be a case of sexual harassment or Anti-Bribery & Corruption at a fictional Fortune 500 company.

Two things underpin the approach. The first is that playing games engages people in solving problems and motivates them to do it. Alongside that is the story-telling aspect, which improves people’s recall of what they learn. So taking something dry about insider trading or Diversity & Inclusion and slip that into a game, a story, and we know that people are much more likely to remember it than with other forms of training.

Organisations are increasingly turning to gamification, the use of the fun, engaging nature of games to encourage people to complete dull tasks, said Aaron Dignan, author of Game Frame, a guide to using games as a strategy for success, and chief executive of Undercurrent, a digital consultancy. “They take elements of games, whether that’s poker or Monopoly or Call of Duty, and apply them to school or the workplace or even home life,” he said. “Something as simple as adding a more immediate feedback loop, like Nike did with Nike Plus [a marketing initiative that allows runners to compare their performance with others on the internet]. It got people’s competitive juices flowing and meant that more people engaged with it.”

Gamification taps into human psychology. “It’s in our nature to turn things into games. We are constantly competing with ourselves — ‘How long will it take me to do this task?’,” Dignan said.

If you have a brain, you can’t help but be compelled by some of the factors that are in a good game. People are effectively hardwired to learn through storytelling, whether that’s a tale by a campfire or an animated graphic novel playing on a mobile phone. The narrative component also brings a first-person element that allows people to relate to the experience, which gives them an emotional connection.

Games can be tailored to match the look and feel of an organisation as well as its policies, which helps with the cultural nuances. So, for example, in Japan they might want all the characters dressed in dark formal suits and ties whereas if we were adapting it for a company in Silicon Valley they might be wearing jeans and hoodies.

Online games-based training allows businesses to monitor who has completed tasks and how they have performed. The apps also allow a more subtle analysis of responses, including how long they took to answer particular questions and whether certain teams or offices were more likely to react in a particular way. Companies can use this to identify potential problem areas.
 

For instance, we can develop an insider-trading application for a bank. It could be a narrative-based game where you make decisions in certain scenarios, say an analyst and a trader in a bar or chatting at a party, a natural interaction but also a grey area, so you can then see how people react to the simulation. You can see every decision they make, every time they swipe the screen, and how long it takes them to do it. If all the traders in a particular office showed they were a bit too willing to let their in-game character talk freely at a party, it could suggest that the corporate culture needs tightening up.

 
The games-based approach can also be used for recruitment, said Dignan. “I sat down with a guy in Shanghai the other day who is working on a game for traders and analysts at banks. He was making the environment as realistic as possible so that people would feel like they are trading, but [the bank] would be able to control the context. If you were in the recruiting team, you could find people who were the best at this. You could even watch how they played it throughout college and monitor how they performed on the leader boards.”

Businesses also need to be clear about who will use the game and what its purpose is, he added. “For example, if it is for a group of sales people, you might have a leader board and a very competitive set-up, whereas if it is to be used by a team of physicians where everyone has to work together, you might not want to create a game where the laggards are left behind but one where everyone works together to succeed.”

Unedited Sunday Times Article available here

Wright Solutions' current titles include:

• Anti-Money Laundering
• Workplace Discrimination Prevention
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Anti-Bribery & Corruption
• Information & Data Security

And we're releasing new apps all the time about issues critical to your organisation (available on iPad or PC).

You can call us on 0121 222 5599 to book a demonstration of the value that this training can offer you and your business.

 

                                                           

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