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Ideathon
Developing collaborative leaders: Generating creative solutions for charities
Ideathon generates new thinking and ideas for charities in 24 hours.
We bring together some of your most highly valued people to think together with peers from the private, public, social and arts sectors to generate solutions to
a real strategic challenge from the CEO of a charity.
It’s live action learning. It demonstrates how people
with different perspectives can think and work together
to produce breakthrough ideas. It connects key people
in an organisation into the world beyond their own business.
Each Ideathon is a unique experience designed to inspire collaborative thinking and behaviours. It is a source of energy, refreshment and ideas for those who take part. It unleashes the best in people.
Who’s it for?
Ideathon is open to existing, high potential and emerging leaders within each partner organisation.
The Ideathon programme provides the opportunity to mix an organisation’s senior people with similarly bright and motivated peers from other businesses and sectors. They will experience new ways of thinking, new energies, new perspectives and new enthusiasms.
What do individuals get out of it?
A unique experience that will inspire and increase self awareness of the impact they can have on their organisation and the communities in which they operate.
Participants also benefit from greater awareness of the external issues that frame their business environment.
Each participant receives a personal assessment designed to help them focus on and evaluate key behaviours that are important to highly effective collaborative leaders.
Ideathon variants
Ideathon is a very flexible concept and can be tailored to meet specific and different leadership development requirements. Here are some examples;
Team Ideathon
Inspiring leadership teams to think together more effectively.
Catalyst Ideathon
Seeding collaborative thinking and behaviours across different leadership levels in a business.
Partner Ideathon
Actively collaborating with charity partners to generate new ways to solve shared community, environmental or business challenges.
Graduate Ideathon
Developing a greater external perspective and the collaboration skills of the next generation of business leaders.
Mini Ideathon
Fast tracking creative solutions for partner charities with larger conference and workshop audiences.
What the charities say :
ChildLine
Challenge: How do we stop living hand to mouth?
“The experience strengthened my resolve to pursue radical options to guarantee not only survival but also extend our vital service to all the children needing our help”
Carole Easton, CEO
WWF
Challenge: What do we need to do differently to engage business leaders with the issue of climate change?
“Thank you for the quality of your thinking and the time and energy you gave to help us better understand what we could do differently to engage with business leaders on climate change.”
Robert Napier, UK CEO
Help the Aged
Challenge: Given that 1 in 4 of us in the UK will be of pensionable age by 2031, what should Help the Aged be concentrating on in terms of purpose, activities and identity?
“It was incredibly valuable and I hope that everyone else got as much out of it as we did? “
Mike Lake, CEO
Plan International UK
Challenge: How can we create sustainable and mutually beneficial links between schools in the UK and developing countries?
“A BIG THANK YOU. We’re excited by the new perspectives that you gave us!”
Marie Staunton, CEO
RNIB
Challenge: What do we need to do differently to help blind and partially sighted people find employment?
“A really worthwhile exercise. The thinking has dared us into doing something different”
Lesley-Anne Alexander, CEO
MENCAP
Challenge: How do we engage more effectively with young people?
“I was buzzing when I left last night and I’m still thinking about the ideas. Their work was insightful, timely and creative”
Jo Williams, CEO
Young Minds
Challenge: What do we need to do to make the step change into a larger organisation and maximise our impact?
“Thanks for all your hard work. The group was great.”
Barbara Herts, CEO
Marie Curie
Challenge: How can we increase the understanding of the services Marie Curie Cancer Care without it costing the earth?
“Thank you! I was very impressed by the programme and the freshness of the ideas.”
Thomas Hughes-Hallett, CEO
Kidscape
Challenge: What should be the future direction of Kidscape and how should we plan for the future succession of the founder?
“I really appreciate all your hard work and input into Kidscape. Now we have to make decisions and move on them.”
Michele Elliot, CEO
Comic Relief
Challenge: Given Comic Relief’s existing assets, how can we maximise our revenues in the 21st century?
“We found the session incredibly interesting and very useful. We will now put our heads together and work on some of the ideas that came out of the session.”
Kevin Cahill, CEO
RSPCA
Challenge: How can the RSPCA more effectively meet the challenge of delivering our animal welfare work through separately registered independent charities that also bear our brand name?
“Thank you! It was a very successful event and certainly gave me food for thought.
Jackie Ballard, CEO
What the participants say :
“Terrific, exhausting, inspiring and challenging”
Charles Middleton, CEO, Triodos Bank
“A fantastic development experience”
Peter Attfield, VP Organisational Effectiveness, Unilever
“I have learned that collaboration is key”
Adrian Hosford, Global CSR Director, BT
“I thought the whole concept was really invigorating and it's one of the most effective forms of personal development I've experienced”
Jane Hayman, Head of Marketing Design & Production, Marks & Spencer
“This was one of the best (if not the most engaging and valuable) corporate courses that I have attended - it had learning, but also hopefully output and it made me feel good.”
Captain Rod Young, General Manager Corporate & Air Safety, British Airways
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