August 2022, Sawsan Khuri. How often have you heard the old cliché, think outside the box? No one ever asks you to think about how to light a candle without making a mess…
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ExeBiblio – a book authoring intervention
August 2022, Sawsan Khuri and Tamsin Kilner.
Think you might/should/could maybe one day write a book?
Intimidated by the publishing process?
Feel you could write the book on writer’s block?
We did, and here is what we did about it.
An Interview with …
June 2022: The Exeter Chamber recognises the importance of STEMM and of related businesses in the Exeter area through Exist (Exeter Initiative for Science and Technology). The Exist Insights magazine spotlights key players in the area and this month it’s Sawsan Khuri.
Embedding Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
Apr 2022, Sawsan Khuri. EDI is at the heart of innovation. We worked with a large organisation to establish a strategy for embedding equality, diversity and inclusion in their culture.
Why we use the term intervention
March 2022, Sawsan Khuri. Innovation defines the process of creating something new. Workshops are often used to describe facilitating the process of innovation. However, here at Collaborative Capacities, we prefer to use the term intervention.
Take your shoes off and slide into innovation interventions for lasting change
Jan 2022., Sawsan Khuri. ‘Take Your Shoes Off First’ is a term used by Julia Freeland in the book and podcast of the same name. The powerful idea is to identify our own beliefs and put them aside before trying to understand another person’s perspective. In her fifth podcast, Julia discusses this concept with Sawsan Khuri and how we use it in our innovation interventions.
How Important are Facts in Conflict Resolution?
Nov 2021, Daniel Maxwell. Dan’s expertise is in working with groups of people to map and compare their beliefs, revealing where they agree and disagree, and helping them understand each other better and reach reconciliation.
What Happens At an Innovation Intervention?
Nov 2021, Sawsan Khuri. Our team designs each intervention from scratch with clients using tried and tested tools and methods, and ensuring the context and outcomes are aligned with client needs.
An Innovation Training Session with SETsquared
Sept 2021, Nasara Al-Hassan. Nasara summarises Sawsan’s approach to innovation training
The Three Ingredients of an Entrepreneurial Mindset
Sept 2021, Sawsan Khuri. This blog is a summary of an interactive webinar Sawsan gave on the Entrepreneurial Mindset to the Lucidity Network in September 2021.
The Future of Work – a Panel Discussion
August 2021, Nasara Al-Hassan. With pandemic conditions getting better, employees are now being asked to return to the physical office. What will this new working environment look like for many, and how will this impact the future of work?
Discussions of the Panel: International Women’s Day 2021 Reset and Recovery – Women, Business and the Pandemic
July 2021, Nasara Al-Hassan. A young person’s reflection of a panel discussion around the impact that the pandemic has had on women, and how they can rise once again to help with reset and recovery.
Innovation for an improved business model
With business norms rapidly changing, many businesses need to reassess their strategy and build resilience into their business model. Innovation makes the difference between revamping and reenergizing, and provides an opportunity to engage your team in evolving your business.
Online Innovation Strategy Workshop
This SME had reached a point where they needed to spend time on rather than in their business. The covid19 pandemic has accelerated the need for change, but many SMEs are not sure where to start. Working with the core team, we took an analytical look at the data they were collecting through their business process, both intentionally and inadvertently, and how they might work with this data to improve their business growth.
The Future of Work
Over 50 people from business, government, NGOs and academics collaborated on what the future of work might look like and what skills might this future workforce need. A follow-up series of online workshops took place more recently, with hugely insightful results especially around upskilling, reskilling and the impact of digital technologies on the future of required professional skills.
Design Thinking Training
Ready to demystify a process that could transform your business? Heard all the buzz words and trying to figure out how to fit it into a Business Model Canvas tool? It’s all quite simple really, and the results are a more innovative, resilient, secure business.
Communication Training for Innovator Challenge
Speaking with clarity and confidence on complex topics: this is communication at its best. It is the sort of communication that is relevant to all business sectors and is key for a competitive advantage in presentations.