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How Tos, inspiration stories, ultimate guides and research articles to help you make your employee idea initiatives a success. 

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How to Improve Employee Engagement in Transformation

Employee engagement drives business success. While factors like location, resources, and leadership play a role, it's employees who shape work quality and foster a productive workplace culture. This article shows how you can improve it.

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Top 10 Change Management Tools for 2025

Navigating change is tough, but the right tools can make it seamless. Discover the top 10 change management tools shaping 2025 and find the perfect fit to drive transformation in your organization.

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Busting Bureaucracy and Becoming Better: Hidden Lessons from the Amazon Memo

Three major benefits that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's "Bureaucracy Mailbox" will have on improving efficiency, employee engagement and the overall culture and wellbeing at Amazon at a time when a controversial 5-day 'back to the office' policy is announced.

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What Is Change Management? Key Principles and Strategies

For leadership teams looking to plan, monitor and implement change reliably and effectively, this guide shows key principles and strategies for successful outcomes.

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AI for Idea Management Done Well

Discover how we leverage AI at Sideways 6 to enhance idea management, focusing on strategic integration and a user-centric approach.

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Assessing Change Readiness: Steps for a Successful Transition

Assessing Change Readiness is crucial for successful organizational transformation. But what is Change Readiness and what are steps to evaluate it and avoid pitfalls in change management?

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Change Management Models: Lewin, Kotter and ADKAR Compared

This article explores three seminal change management models and offers in-depth insights into their applications, benefits, and potential limitations.

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Mastering Change Management: Key Principles for Successful Transformation

Find out why change projects fail and discover key strategies to engage employees in driving sustainable change.

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10 Key Considerations When Evaluating Idea Management Platforms

Explore the key factors for choosing the ideal idea management software in 2024.

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5 reasons why your employee ideas initiative is failing

Find out the top 5 reasons why your initiative might be failing and how to turn things around, enhance productivity and foster a culture of ideas within your organization.

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What does it mean to be 'Native' to Microsoft Teams?

Built for engagement: find out why your employees are more likely to adopt and use native software solutions.

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Embracing Employee Ideas for Continuous Improvement and Innovation

What is continuous improvement? And can employee ideas initiatives support continuous improvement efforts?

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How to Win Executives and Influence People?

Senior Customer Success Manager Jake Harrison shares his top tips on getting senior stakeholders' buy-in for your employee ideas initiatives.

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Why ideation doesn't have to be scary – 3 simple steps to start harnessing your workforce

Head of Customer Success Jake Dipple shares his top 3 tips to start your ideation journey and make it less scary.

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Empowering Progress: How 4 companies saved >$100m through employee ideas

Saving money is a priority for businesses in an economic crisis. But is laying off staff always the right approach? Could we find inspiration in real-life examples where employees' ideas led to business transformation, saving resources, and improving efficiency?

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Small Companies, Big Ideas: How Crowdsourcing Employee Ideas Can Transform SMEs

Four examples of inspiring and innovative small companies that significantly transformed their businesses simply by asking employees for their ideas.

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The ultimate guide to idea management on Microsoft Teams

Learn how to make Microsoft Teams a home for employee ideas and innovation whilst driving business goals.

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The Top 5 Benefits of Employee Engagement Explained

Most businesses will agree that employee engagement is key to corporate success, but what do we mean by ‘engagement’ exactly? What does it look like to have an engaged workforce?

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5 things we learned from 500,000 employee ideas

We know a thing or two about ideas. We reveal the best ways to draw them out, and how to spot the very best ones.

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10 Top Tips to Make Your Employee Ideas Campaign a Success

We've assembled the ultimate 10 top tips to consider when putting together your employee ideas campaign,

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Want to engage employees? It’s time to start listening to ideas proactively

How can listening to ideas drive engagement and create ownership in your company’s strategic goals?

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6 superior strategies to increase employee engagement at your business

Most large organisations have the basics of employee engagement covered. Top-performing companies are the ones that take engagement to the next level.

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14 inspiring examples of employee ideas

True stories which prove that great things happen when companies empower their employees to share ideas and bring them to life.

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What is integrated idea management?

Learn how integrated idea management differs from older methods and enables employees to collaborate on ideas.

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6 companies generating employee ideas with Workplace by Meta

Some of the world's biggest businesses are using Workplace by Facebook to harness employee ideas and develop a culture of innovation. This is how.

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4 companies using Microsoft Viva Engage to generate employee ideas

See how big businesses are using Microsoft Viva Engage to develop a culture of innovation.

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The top 50 Listening Leaders

As chosen by the people, allow us to present the world’s best listening leaders.

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The C-suite Guide to listening leaders

What are listening leaders and why are they so important? We reveal all in this in-depth guide.

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The Retailer's guide to employee ideas

The best retailers in the world improve every day with employee ideas. Find out how.

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8 impactful ways to promote your employee ideas campaign

Need some inspiration for communicating to the masses? We explore the top promotion methods to launch your campaign with a bang and inspire employees to share their ideas.

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