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The shift to the virtual world has changed the field of training and development for good. Suddenly all training professionals were tackling the questions of how to change the face-to-face training ...
Blog
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 ...
The German Federal Agency for Civic Education has been running the cross-European NECE network for over 15 years. Previously, their work has had a strong focus on co-creating in a yearly physical ...
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, you are not alone. Especially for those who are more accustomed to face-to-face learning, navigating the digital environment can feel ...
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 ...
One of the greatest things about new technologies is that they can be used to either digitize existing processes or develop completely new ways of working. However, when it comes to inherently ...
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 ...
Customer stories
AI knowhow and its development have become a hot topic in recent years. Yhteiskunta-alan korkeakoulutetut ry (name of association: Social Science Professionals, YKA) has recognised that there is a ...
The pandemic situation continues to pose challenges to training and event organizers in trying out new ways of implementation. Alongside fully digital implementations, hybrid events and hybrid ...
Milestone Coaching & Consulting is a Corporate culture design (coaching and development) agency with over 20 years of history in human-centred change. They build their customer relationships, ...
Finnish Business School Graduates is a leader in the digitalization of nonprofit work. This trade union of economists and students in the field, known for its active membership activities, is ...
During the first spring of the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Turku's TSE exe worked hard to move events and training packages online as quickly as possible. TSE exe – the University’s program ...
The way nonprofits work is currently transforming. This is a challenge to all organizations in the field today, including the Trade Union of Education in Finland (OAJ), one of the largest trade ...
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 ...
Agile Work, founded in 2015, specializes in planning and managing changes in the workplace. Agile Work looks at workplaces from a multidisciplinary perspective: employee experience, culture and the ...
Finland's biggest growth and sparring programme, Kasvu Open – Growth Open, is facing new challenges in the midst of the prevailing exceptional circumstances. Kasvu Open – Growth Open is aimed at ...
Spring 2020 brought with it many changes to the Finnish Social Democratic Party. This community, comprised of close to 40,000 party members and more than 700 active local associations, embarked years ...
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 are currently facing the challenge of turning an in-person workshop into a virtual one. Whereas many facilitators are incredibly good at leading a group of people in a physical space, ...
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-ace and digitally.
Doctors’ future guidelines on the basic principles of healthcare will be shaped through artificial intelligence. The Finnish Medical Association used the Howspace digital platform for crowdsourcing ...
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 of various companies from around the world every year, and these meetings challenge and shape my thinking. Having worked around ...
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.
“We started a transformation journey 5 years ago to take our fairly traditional training business more digital, more relevant and more impactful. A lot has changed since”, tells Roel Van Caenegem, ...
More than 450 schools, internationally from every continent, are committed to a joint Climate Agreement of Schools. The agreement was drafted using Finnish digital facilitation technology. The ...
Wenche Strømsnes has more than twenty years of experience in leadership and organizational development. Now she is focusing on helping companies improve their meeting culture. How many meetings did ...
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 ...
Customer cases
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 about 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 ...
The success of modern organizations is measured by how fast their employees can learn new skills and absorb information. And while there are many online platforms that support learning and ...
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 ...
If you'd like to read this text in Finnish, please click here. Executive Vice President Tapio Anttila is responsible for societal training at Sitra, in addition to professionally facilitating group ...
Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen a huge increase in the use of different technologies to support organizations’ learning and training programs.
Toronto Change Days is not your average conference. Instead of building the event around static PowerPoint decks and one-way presentations, the organizers Nik Beeson and Rich Batchelor wanted to ...
If you'd like to read the blog in Swedish please click here. If you'd like to read the blog in Finnish, please click here. “Facilitation takes less time than before, so I have more time to focus on ...
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 ...
If you'd like to read this post in Finnish, please click here. Fingrid, Finland’s national power transmission company, wanted to train its experts to become influencers. The process is managed by ...
Human resources management company HR4 uses Howspace on a daily basis. The digital platform is growing with the company, which uses Howspace for organizational development and customer projects alike.
It is important to remember that 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 ...
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 ...
If you'd like to read this post in Finnish, please click here. More efficient ways of working and inspired partners are encouraging the experts at Project Institute Finland to use the Howspace ...
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 Swedish please click here. If you'd like to read the blog in Finnish, please click here. Inspiring, easy to use and fast. Those are the main qualities of the ...
If you'd like to read the text in Finnish, please click here. Catharina Axling, partner and consultant at Gaia Leadership, recently used Howspace in a client project. She now shares five lessons that ...
Simple, noiseless, contextual, journey-like, and workflow-based. These are the five key characteristics of powerful digital facilitation platforms—and the design principles that guided the creation ...
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 ...
If you'd like to read the blog in Finnish, please click here. Digital facilitation is one of my favorite topics. I believe there are no limits to positive change when the facilitator’s attitude is ...
When your mission is to make the world a better place, your tools must be up to the task. Gaia Consulting uses Howspace digital platform to promote its multinational projects in sustainable ...
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 ...
If you'd like to read the blog post in Finnish, please click here. It’s difficult to imagine a more rewarding job than encouraging others to embrace change and learn something new. I know I have ...
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 this text in Finnish, please click here. In 2014, HR4 realized it needed a digital learning and collaboration environment for its customer training programs. Today, many of the ...
If you'd like to read the story in Swedish, please click here. Jos haluat lukea tekstin suomeksi, paina tästä. Swedish consulting office RÖTT helps companies develop their customer experience. An ...
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 ...
There are always limited encounters in one process. That’s why Vilma Mutka looked for a solution that would help her to permit the extension of the learning process as a whole at both ends.
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.
Jos haluat lukea tekstin suomeksi, paina tästä. Basware runs the world’s largest open commerce network. The Basware Network provides access to more than 220 global partner networks and over 1 million ...
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 ...
Keeping track of many great ideas and conversations can be a challenging task.
With mergers and acquisitions, what starts as a legal and financial transaction quickly becomes a company cultural exercise. How to 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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Use case
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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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.
