It was a completely innovative way of providing training and encouraging a new way of organisational thinking.
Funded Projects and Public Sector
- Yorkshire Forward – Innovation Programme – The Environmental Skills Store. Delivered in partnership with University of Sheffield.
- European Union – Objective 1 (ESF) – Virtual Environmental Management Systems. Delivered in partnership with University of Sheffield.
- European Union – Objective 1 (ESF) – Virtual Waste Management Systems. Delivered in partnership with University of Sheffield.
- European Union – Objective 1 (ERDF) – Mentor Networks. Delivered in partnership with University of Sheffield.
- Department of Trade & Industry – Smart Award – Business Unlimited Learning Simulation. Co-funded by United Utilities.
- European Union – Objective 1 (ESF) – Planit-South Yorkshire. Delivered in partnership with Enviro Futures.
- Defra – WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme) – Planit-Waste. Delivered in partnership with Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority.
- UK Commission for Employment and Skills – UK Futures Programme – Understanding Human Centered Management in Food and Drink Supply Chains. Delivered in partnership with the University of Chester.
Our solutions have been used in over 70 councils and LSPs such as Cheshire West and Chester, Birmingham City Council and Manchester City Council. Our learning simulations (serious games) cover areas that are useful for training members and officers and many have been used to do so.
Typical Outcomes:
- Improved working relationships including breaking down silos and developing an outward focus.
- Staff see the big pictures and understand how they play a role in it.
- Organisations think in terms of cause and effect and long-term planning.
- Improving current leaders and identifying leaders of the future (transformational leadership).
- Improved partnerships: collaborative gain (the whole is greater than the sum of the parts).
- Improving efficiency, service quality and shared services.
- Organisations gain common understanding of their area.
- Council improvements: political parties work together.
- Local authorities and partners embed sustainable development into their Community Strategy.
- Understanding and adapting to the changing world – economy, climate change, sustainable development.
