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The workflow-based design principle is all about building your own processes and using the right tools to bring people together for collaborative impact.
Workplace learning comes in many shapes and sizes. Some approaches are more innovative and push the boundaries, while others remain firmly stuck in the past. Of course, learning on the job is part of ...
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How can you successfully facilitate workshops, learning journeys, change processes and more—whether participants are in the same place, apart, or in a hybrid environment? How can you engage everyone ...
The connection between individuals and organizations is broken. According to a recent report by Gallup, only 21% of employees feel engaged at work. While employees struggle to find their work ...
Explore how to power collaborative impact! We are pleased to invite all Howspace customers and partners for a day of inspiration and stories on how to bring people together to collaborate and learn ...
Hybrid work has been a hot topic since the pandemic. Companies learned that work can get done even if employees aren’t all at the office eight hours a day, five days a week.
Nearly every organization today aspires to be a learning organization—meaning they aim to learn and evolve in an agile way. But creating a solid learning and development (L&D) strategy is ...
In today’s work environment, companies need to empower employees to keep up with industry changes and grow their skill sets. The pandemic spurred on the Great Resignation, leaving countless employees ...
All five Howspace design principles are grounded in the systemic approach—a way of thinking where complex systems are seen as a whole without taking them apart to details.
With the rise of hybrid and remote work, you might feel that it’s more difficult than ever to be an effective leader today. Coordinating with employees takes more effort when people have more ...
The new era of work demands collaboration and inclusion at every level, which requires a new model of leadership. Hybrid work is now the norm, and online collaboration tools have broken barriers ...
Today’s work environments are noisy. There’s always another email or Slack message to respond to. Another meeting to attend. Even after closing your laptop, you can easily get lost in an endless ...
Creating a culture that values learning comes with many benefits for organizations. For one, the commitment to learn and apply what’s learned daily gives learning organizations a competitive edge. ...
Simplicity is at the core of Howspace and something nearly all users appreciate the most.
75% (!) of organizational transformation efforts fail to deliver the results hoped for. So if you’ve been musing over how to change your organizational culture, you’re in the right place.
The post-pandemic world has made it clear: hybrid work comes with a plateful of benefits. These include improved productivity and increased employee satisfaction.
Like many aspects of our day-to-day lives, our workplaces and habits have undergone huge changes since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Howspace is a digital collaboration platform founded by consultants who wanted to support their own work as well as help other consultants and trainers. The original goal with Howspace was to help ...
Thinking about fleshing out a successful hybrid work environment? Good call.
Organizations have much to gain by making a successful transition to hybrid work. The benefits of hybrid work include improved employee satisfaction and culture, more possibilities for continuous ...
Human-centric transformation has been around for a while, but it has been difficult for leaders to put into practice. With the rise of remote and asynchronous work, it’s become easier to involve many ...
Howspace’s built-in AI helps people listen to each other better and achieve a shared understanding. The benefits of using AI to develop work and learning is now backed up by research.
There’s no doubt that the workplace has transformed entirely since COVID-19. As the number of vaccinated people grows, many organizations are heading back to the office, trying to reestablish ...
Does the famous Ray Noorda quote “Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die” resonate with you?
When it comes to hybrid work, leaders have many questions about how to make the right decisions for their teams. The top questions that came up in a global Howspace survey included:
How can we limit the number of meetings and plan the most effective meetings and workshops?
Change is inevitable but difficult. Humans are naturally resistant to change, which is why organizational change is so challenging for many companies.
The hybrid work model—combining on-site and remote work—is becoming the new normal for organizations across the globe. But there’s no denying that this model is more challenging compared to a fully ...
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to the new world of work. Some employees love working from home—swapping a one-hour commute for a morning jog and enjoying more family time. Others are happiest ...
Many organizations are reaping the benefits of a virtual workforce, including cut costs from reduced office space and less travel. But many leaders also worry that this model will come with long-term ...
Leaders are under exceptional pressure in our era of accelerated change. COVID-19 has pushed many organizations to go through decades of change in a single year. Yet the majority of us don’t have ...
As we enter the pandemic’s twilight, it’s become clear that remote work is here to stay. It’s more important than ever that we move on from face-to-face meetings being the default option, and instead ...
Last year, many companies were just hoping to survive. But as work life continues to evolve in 2021, Deloitte insists that, “making the shift from “survive to thrive” depends on an organization ...
Many companies rely on learning management systems (LMSes) to deliver training and development outcomes for their employees. These systems are typically used for mandatory training such as fire ...
Learning and development professionals have been forced to change their approach to training programs in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. With face-to-face sessions being moved online for such a ...
It’s time for a paradigm shift for leaders. But first, let’s paint a picture of you sitting down to work on a Monday morning.
The past year has accelerated the digital transformation of organizations. One such organization is Kasvu Open from Jyväskylä, which would regularly organize hundreds of live events a year. Kasvu ...
When the pandemic hit, most learning & development (L&D) professionals had to make a sharp pivot in the way they delivered training, going completely virtual. Now over a year later, it’s ...
Learning experience design (LXD) is a human-centric and goal-oriented approach to learning.
Many organizations estimate that they’ve seen a decade’s worth of innovation in the past year since the start of COVID-19. Among other types of development initiatives, co-creation has seen a major ...
Successful organizational learning is social and collaborative. Only when each participant can make the learning relevant and applicable to their own work can it stick. Unlike top-down learning, ...
For over a year now, we’ve been living amid the digital transformation of working life that got a sudden boost by the pandemic. Besides more Zoom calls, Teams meetings, and Slack messages, some less ...
When it comes to learning at work, many companies are moving away from more formal training and traditional education towards on-the-job learning. As part of this shift, organizations are using new ...
There’s no doubt that effective employee learning and development programs are a must in today’s corporate world. But not all companies succeed in helping employees improve their skills and ...
Creating more open, integrated, and courageous workplaces—that is the fundamental goal of Kathy Ball-Toncic, a corporate and leadership coach, certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator, and founder of the ...
We all know the bore of a non-interactive virtual meeting—one person talking, 20 others listening with their cameras off. By the time the meeting is over, it’s hard to say if anything was achieved, ...
As we all have no doubt experienced personally, humans are naturally resistant to change. While this trait often presents as frustrating, it actually serves an important purpose: psychological ...
Very few organizations do not aspire to be “learning organizations” – i.e. organizations with an innate capability to learn and evolve in an agile way. According to Harvard Business Review, for ...
If you feel virtual training is difficult to make engaging for your participants, you are not alone. Especially for those who are more accustomed to face-to-face learning, navigating the digital ...
As the world becomes increasingly digital, you may feel that effective leadership is becoming more difficult. In some ways true, but in fact, this development also gives us great opportunities. ...
The number of virtual events is growing at a pace, especially because of the 2020 restrictions and challenges associated with organizing physical events. This means that a growing number of ...
Howspace, a digital engagement and collaboration platform, is a key part of learning and online training. It is used at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health's to support various coaching and ...
Are you looking for actionable and effective ways to manage organizational change and development programs in a digital environment? My first pro-tip is: change should never be managed.
Troy Pfeffer is looking at a screen. It’s not an uncommon sight these days, with 90% of all jobs in the American economy requiring at least some interaction with computers as part of the workday. But ...
Howspace Live is a major update to the Howspace digital facilitation platform. It brings video meetings to a new environment - to one where both text-based dialogue as well as different participation ...
With the rise of virtual and hybrid work, people are thinking more about how to choose when to collaborate in-person, virtually, or a mix of both. How do you pick the right facilitation method when ...
Facilitation is a craft that requires many very different types of expertise. The best facilitators know how to pick and choose the right skills and methods for any situation, which often happens ...
Due to the pandemic, trainers, consultants, event organizers, and leaders have been forced to try out new ways of working and facilitating. At times, fully virtual events were the only option—aside ...
Traditionally workshops are done in person, which places limitations on scheduling. Even before the pandemic's unexpected fast-tracking to digital transformation, meetings were often impossible to ...
As a digital facilitator, it’s important to know what technologies are available to you, and how to effectively use them. It’s critical to find the right tools that will help you effectively ...
It seems like overnight, the COVID-19 global pandemic has forcibly changed our ways of working. The phenomena has accelerated the organizational transformation and learning curve of most, if not all ...
Many of us have faced the challenge of turning an in-person workshop into a virtual one during COVID-19. Whereas many facilitators were used to leading a group of people in a physical space, virtual ...
Nearly every company is experiencing an exceptional situation in which the digitalisation of processes and projects has become an urgent challenge. Many teaching establishments and training courses ...
With the help of new digital ways of working, there doesn’t have to be a quality difference between working together face-to-face and digitally.
It’s no secret that a company’s and its employees’ ability to learn is in direct correlation with business performance. In fact, research shows that organizational learning contributes positively to ...
The ADKAR® Model of change is a well-known and widely used tool that helps you analyze your change and better understand it. The five ADKAR elements—awareness, desire, knowledge, ability, and ...
In my work, I have the pleasure of meeting hundreds of representatives from various companies around the world every year, and these meetings challenge and shape my thinking. Having worked over ...
Designing a leadership training program is one of those things that seems easy on the surface but is actually really quite difficult—especially if you’re looking to create a sustained learning impact.
How many meetings did you attend today? Did all of the meetings have an agenda? Are you reading this now during a meeting? 👀 Meetings don’t have the best reputation in the corporate world. A quick ...
According to Beroe, the learning experience category has exploded into a $367 billion dollar market, and it's growing year on year.
First, it was LMSes — now it’s all about LXPs. For a while, everyone was talking about e-learning — now all they talk about is blended learning and learning experiences.
Artificial intelligence (or AI) is one of those pesky terms that’s difficult to avoid no matter where you go. All you have to do is attend a meeting, browse through your LinkedIn feed, or even walk ...
Making sense of huge volumes of qualitative data is one of the biggest challenges consultants and facilitators face today. In his work as an Organizational Consultant at Humap Consultation, ...
It's nearly the time to celebrate Howspace first anniversary and dig deeper into the world of digital facilitation. To celebrate Howspace's journey as the world-leading digital facilitation platform, ...
It's no secret that learning management systems have been a staple in larger organization since the 1990’s. However, with the introduction of learning experience platforms, the corporate learning ...
When it comes to facilitating complex organizational development and learning programs, there’s no one quite like Glenda Eoyang. Together with her team at the Human Systems Dynamics Institute, Glenda ...
If you'd like to read this text in Finnish, please click here. “Nobody changes in isolation,” says Glenda Eoyang, Founding Executive Director of the Human Systems Dynamics Institute. “Rather than ...
An organization's success can be measured by how efficiently its employees learn new skills and absorb information to perform their job better. While there are many online platforms that support ...
Not too long ago, factory workers and other blue-collar employees represented a large majority of the working population in North America and Europe. Back then, a company's financial performance was ...
If you’re looking for ways to innovate faster, grow your organization more sustainably, or make your employees more engaged during an organizational development process, digital facilitation may just ...
Executive Vice President Tapio Anttila is responsible for societal training at Sitra, in addition to professionally facilitating group processes. Anttila is passionate about effective dialogue. He ...
Over the past few years, we’ve seen a huge increase in the use of different technologies to support organizations’ learning and training programs. For many organizations, online learning is the ...
If you'd like to read the blog in Finnish, please click here. Every office will undergo a relocation or renovation at some point: a move into new facilities, a conversion of traditional workspaces ...
Workshop facilitation is the act of facilitating or guiding participants through a process of co-creation and active dialogue to help them reach a particular goal together. It requires that workshop ...
If you'd like to read this post in Finnish, please click here. Organizational development professionals believe in digitalization. A digital platform can be used to increase democracy and dialogue in ...
If you'd like to read the blog in Finnish, please click here. The fall season is here, and so are new employees. All of them must be able to familiarize themselves with their new jobs as thoroughly ...
We could all use a little help when it comes to implementing effective organizational change and transformation. So, we called on 20 organizational development experts from all around the world to ...
Digital facilitation is the use of digital platforms and technologies to enable large groups of people to work together towards a common goal. It is most commonly used by change consultants, ...
If you'd like to read the blog in Finnish, please click here. With its implementation nearing, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is attracting interest and provoking discussion. This ...
Digital facilitation is one of my favorite topics. I believe there are no limits to positive change when the facilitator’s attitude is combined with the opportunities created by digitalization. ...
If you'd like to read the blog post in Finnish, please click here. We are making major decisions in our private lives: we take on mortgages for hundreds of thousands of dollars, buy cars or invest in ...
Organizations today need to stay ready for change and continuously transform their ways of working. For any organization to change and develop, the people within that organization need to collaborate ...
If you'd like to read the blog post in Finnish, please click here. Our customers no longer want to buy planning from us. They want to buy organizational change and its implementation. For us – as ...
If you'd like to read the story in Finnish, please click here. Nora Ojala is the founder of Prego, a management development company, and an advocate of blended learning and practical leadership. One ...
Jos haluat lukea tekstin suomeksi, paina tästä. Helsinki Brief Therapy Institute searched for a digital solution to help them manage the needs of the different courses, students and educators.
Lukeaksesi asiakastarinan suomeksi, paina tästä. Wood trade is changing, and Metsä Group’s wood supply and forest services wanted to increase the focus of its wood supply chain on customer experience ...
Lukeaksesi asiakastarinan suomeksi, paina tästä. It’s easy for people to study new things independently these days. But for the newly learned skills and knowledge to make an impact, companies need to ...
With mergers and acquisitions, what starts as a legal and financial transaction quickly becomes a company cultural exercise. How do you turn previously separate organizations into one coherent entity ...
Take a public organization and its traditional annual Development Day. Pack 700 people in one auditorium and task them with work-related development goals to agree on for the next year. The obvious ...
eBooks & Guides
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Howspace is the perfect tool for facilitating organizational change. It allows you to engage an unlimited number of people to drive transformation.
Learning is not just a classroom activity. Blended learning environment Howspace allows you to bring a large group of people together to learn from each other.
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In this Ultimate Guide, we'll share the mindset, skills and tools you'll need to facilitate organizational change effectively.
Everything you need to know about designing and facilitating effective blended learning programs for adults—from best practices to platform selection.
This ebook helps you navigate the 8 learning trends revolutionizing the way people learn at work & understand how learning should change in your business.
Digital facilitation insights, benefits, tips, methods, and tools for workshops and meetings from expert virtual facilitators.
In this eBook, we’ll share trends, tips, and real-life stories on how to digitally engage participants in organizational development and change programs.
Engage every member of the community or network virtually. Use a digital workspace that enables you to work transparently with a limitless number of participants.
Make hybrid work successful and effectively engage people in different environments with these research-backed insights, tips, and strategies.
Learn nearly everything you need to know about the hybrid work model, from the challenges and benefits to the tools & technologies needed.
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