By Hannah Gee
Books are understandably a huge part of what influences us here at Inspire Group. We love devouring words! We love opening our minds and we love sharing! We often get asked what we are reading so here is a curated … Continued
By AJ Grove
I’m fascinated by brains. Your brain, my brain, learner brains, braaaaaiiinnnns. Not in a “Mmmmm I wanna eat your brains” kind of way. I can’t imagine something made of water and fats to be that tasty. Although when I was … Continued
I have a confession to make. I cut the crusts off my children’s sandwiches. Why? Because crusts are a dry, tasteless barrier to the purpose of the sandwich as a peanut-butter delivery device. I was brought up in the ‘waste … Continued
So you turn up as the learning person to a meeting where they are talking about rolling out the [insert whatever thing is about to roll out in your organisation here] and you know what they will ask of you. … Continued
I’ve just watched my son’s rugby team yet again dig deep from a first half loss, turn the game around and scrape through with a win. Even if they hadn’t won the game, their second half effort is what made … Continued
What and why It’s a way to spice up your learning design using gaming elements with a purpose. It allows learners to explore a concept or acquire knowledge while playing – that is, playing by the rules that you set … Continued
I know you’ll scream “It’s time, I have no time!” but I’m not buying that because you still seem to find time to regularly search for dancing dog videos on the internet or spend hours playing online solitaire in your … Continued
Here’s the situation we face in the 21st century – the volume and complexity of what we know has exceeded our individual ability to deliver its benefits correctly, safely or reliably. Knowledge has both saved and burdened us, sort of … Continued
Inspire Group Named as Finalist in IBM Kenexa Best Workplaces Survey for 2014 23 September 2014 – Inspire Group, one of Australasia’s top blended learning design companies today announced it is a finalist in the Small-Medium category of the … Continued
We’re excited to announce the launch of our new app “Leaders Commit” We’ve worked incredibly hard on this project and are very proud of the way we’ve used both art and science to create a unique, groundbreaking new app to … Continued
In a league of their own, our Graphic Designers create eye wateringly beautiful designs for our learning. From time to time the demand on this team gets just a little too high and we rely on our pool of freelance Graphic Designers which we’re currently expanding.
Our learning comes in all shapes and sizes so we’re keen to have both print and digital designers in our back pocket. In addition to your awesome portfolio, you’d need to be a great listener as you work with client briefs and you’d be happy creating designs to fit with client branding. All of our work is project based so great time management is essential.
If you’d like to be part of our Associate pool we can offer you a variety of work in a supported and fun environment.
Contact Beth@inspiregroup.co.nz / +64(0)22 677 5607
We are on the hunt for freelance Motion Graphic Designers to work on projects right now and in the future.
Ideally After Affects is your tool of choice and you’d need to be happy creating detailed storyboards from scripts before creating a full animation that rocks and brings the learning to life.
If you’re not comfortable working to a project plan and structured time-frame then we’re not a good match for you but if that doesn’t faze you and you’d like to be part of our Inspire Group Associate pool, I’d love to hear from you.
Contact Beth@inspiregroup.co.nz / +64(0)22 677 5607
Lucie is one of our Visual Designers – comic book mad, a semi-secret cricket nerd and scarily talented. She’s your go-to super hero for all things visual with interface design and interactivity being her Captain Marvel level strengths. But if you spend any amount of time with Lucie, you’ll soon form the opinion she’d probably master anything she put her mind to. It’s the thoughtful, focused way she welcomes and listens to your challenge and vision then turns it over deftly in her mind, inspecting it from all angles. Then, with an almost super-power-like ability she presents it back to you as the creative, visually exciting, learner-centric piece of beauty all your learning solutions deserve to be!
Inspire Group recognises the importance of protecting your privacy. When dealing with personal information we comply with the Privacy Act 1993.
Personal information is information about an identifiable individual (a natural person). In our situation, identifiable individuals are likely to be our clients, potential clients and visitors to our website/s.
This policy does not limit or exclude any of your rights under the Act. If you wish to seek further information on the Act, see www.privacy.org.nz.
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This Policy sets out how we will collect, use, disclose and protect your personal information.
This Policy may continue to apply to you and your information even after your relationship with us has come to an end. This Policy applies to any information collected during your use of our Website, even if you do not engage any of our products or services.
You agree that your use of our Website, or any account, product or service provided by us, indicates acceptance of this Policy and you authorise us to collect, use and share your personal information as outlined in this Policy.
We will only collect personal information that is connected to a function or activity we carry out, and only where the collection of that information is necessary for that function or activity. We collect information about you for the purposes listed in (9) below.
It is important we keep our information about you up-to-date. To do that we need your help. Please tell us as soon as possible if your contact details or other information you have given us has changed.
If the personal information is required for one of our products or services, and if you do not provide personal information that we have requested, you may not be able to obtain or access the products or services for which the personal information is required.
We collect personal information about you from:
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Where possible, we will collect personal information from you directly.
To develop our Website and our marketing, we may collect information gathered from web analytics tools. This may include patterns of traffic to, from, and within our Website, your activity on our Website, your IP address and other information that you voluntarily enter into our Website.
To develop our marketing, our Website may use third party cookies from Google Analytics (and other website statistics software). This gives us information relating to the age, gender and interests of those visiting our Website on an anonymous and collective basis, as well as the number of people who have viewed our marketing on other websites. This helps us to better understand internet conduct to give you a better experience whilst visiting our Website, and to enhance our marketing.
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We will collect and use your personal information legally and fairly, and for the following purposes:
To obtain and/or verify your identity;
To provide accounts, services and products to you, and managing your relationship with us;
To market our services and products to you, including contacting you electronically (e.g. by phone, email, live chat or postal mail for this purpose);
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To bill you and to collect money that you owe us;
To respond to communications from you, including a complaint;
To conduct research and statistical analysis (on an anonymised basis);
To protect and/or enforce our legal rights and interests, including defending any claim;
For any other purpose authorised by you or the Act;
To comply with any laws in New Zealand or overseas applying to us or the products or services we provide you.
Occasionally, we may need to use your information for another purpose (usually associated with a particular product or service). If so, and in accordance with the Act, we will take reasonable steps to make you aware of that purpose.
We will only use the information for these purposes.
We take your privacy seriously, and understand the need to keep your information confidential and secure. We update our technology regularly, and contract IT specialists to manage our technology services. We undertake regular external and internal audits of these services to help protect your information.
We (or third parties contracted to do so) can store your information physically or electronically. We will act reasonably to ensure that your information is protected from unauthorised use or disclosure.
However, the internet is not in itself a secure environment and we cannot give an absolute assurance that your information will be secure at all times. Transmission of personal information over the internet is at your own risk and you should only enter personal information within a secure environment.
We will advise you at the first reasonable opportunity upon discovering or being advised of a security breach where your personal information is lost, stolen, accessed, used, disclosed, copied, modified, or disposed of by any unauthorised persons or in any unauthorised manner.
You have the right to access your personal information. You have the right to correct any personal information that is wrong.
You can access or correct your personal information by calling 04 471-4647, emailing info@inspiregroup.co.nz or calling into our Office at Level 4, Inspire House, 125 Featherston St, Wellington.
The Act allows us to charge you a fee to access the information we have about you.
We has an ongoing legal obligation to ensure your personal details are up to date and correct. This is often dependent on you informing us about any changes to the information, however we may check with you periodically.
We will take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is correct before we use it.
We may disclose your personal information to:
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Anyone that we need to contact to carry out your instructions to us;
Upon receipt of a request by a person who can require us to supply your personal information (e.g. a regulatory authority);
Upon receipt of a request by any other person authorised by the Act or another law (e.g. a law enforcement agency);
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We take reasonable steps to maintain secure internet connections. However if you provide us with personal information over the internet, the provision of that information is at your own risk.
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Technology is constantly evolving, and we may at any time change this Policy. It is important that you review this Policy regularly. If possible, we will advise you of what changes we are making, and when the change will take effect in one of the following ways:
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After you cease to have a relationship with us, we will no longer use your personal information unless authorised to by you, or required to by law.
We work with you to discover the best learning solution unique to your organisations needs. It might include an elearning module or a board game, or a hands-on workshop. We want to take your pain away, not add to it. So we have a few learning design principles as well as a process for creating your custom learning solution.
We believe in collaborating with you to co-create the high level solution. We know about great learning design, but nobody knows your specific audience or environment like you do.
We start with your problem/challenge. We fall in love with the problem not the solution. So this provides you with a learning solution that is directly aligned to your organisational challenge.
We seek learner representation from the outset to ensure the proposed solutions are fit for purpose. What does this mean? Let’s have someone who’s actually going to experience the end solution as a learner, in the initial design session.
We are visual creatures and great learning is visual. Therefore we believe that the design process needs to also express this. We use visual thinking techniques (pictures on a white board) to communicate and convey clearly the ideas and concepts as they unfold. Because this generates clarity and provides for easy agreement as we move through the design phases.
Our 4D process below guides our collaborative approach to learning design. It is not a ridgid process and we can easily adapt along the journey.
An important part of the Discover step in the 4D proces is our co-design session. We’ll get in a room with lots of food and coffee and have some serious design fun. Out of this session we’ll draw you up a high-level design which you’ll have time to reflect on and feedback on. Once we’re both agreed on the way forward your Inspire team will get stuck in and start making stuff happen!
In summary, here’s an outline of what happens at a co-design session:
This session is highly collaborative where we co-create the high-level solution with you. To do this we employ visual thinking (sketches on a white board or chart paper) to convey and communicate the ideas generated in the session. Using this visual approach everyone can see the architecture of the solution unfolding and you can input into the solution. As a result, everyone leaves the session with a clear vision of the high-level learning solution required to meet your challenge.
Finally, this is just to give you a feel for how we can work together to resolve your organisation’s learning challenges. We would love to discuss your specific learning project. Get in touch to see how we can help.
Inspire Group is a leading Australasian custom elearning solutions provider. Since 2001 we’ve been designing engaging and award-winning elearning solutions for a variety of organisations across Australia and New Zealand.
We craft world-class learning experiences to help solve business challenges and shift behavior. Our experienced team brings a unique understanding of the application of how adults learn at work. We will design your learning solution from start to finish. Our blended learning solutions translate to improved job performance.
Over the last 15 years we’ve partnered with hundreds of companies producing thousands of customised elearning modules.
What makes us different from the rest is simple. We don’t offer a set of elearning products that we sell to our clients. We wouldn’t dare to assume that we understand what you need from the offset. What we do is provide you with a depth of expertise in the learning sector and fall in love with your problem before even thinking about the solution. It sounds weird, we know.
By falling in love with the problem, we begin to discover the best solution for your business and your audience organically, with no assumptions, presumptions or off-the-shelf thinking. Working collaboratively is one of our core principles when tackling any project, and in fact is the first stage of our design process.
The benefit of this approach is the design of any solution we embark on with you will always be bespoke to your requirements. It means we form a true partnership. We know how important it is to ‘get it right’ when you are investing so much time and money into your learning and development resources. By collaborating with you from the outset we have a clear understanding of what you need. This ensures the final solution is as effective and engaging as humanly (and sometimes superhumanly) possible.
We would love to discuss your specific learning project. Get in touch to see how we can help.
Below are some of the elearning principles we apply to our elearning modules. Having these agreed principles ensure we produce learning that is engaging and effective. Our learning principles focus on adult learners and creating the desired behaviour change.
We’re extremely proud of all the work we’ve done with our clients over the years. Please take a look at some of our Case Studies in our Portfolio to see some of our great elearning examples
We partner with organisations to develop customised team training programmes. Since 2001 we’ve been designing engaging and award-winning team training solutions for clients big and small across Australia and New Zealand. Our customised solutions are creative and effective and empower your team to reach their full potential.
At Inspire Group we craft world-class team training experiences to help solve business challenges and shift behavior. Learning is like the art of storytelling. Well-crafted stories involve, connect and stay with you. Our learning solutions do just that, they engage, inform and resonate. So our experienced team brings a unique understanding of the application of learning at work.
Because we’d love to discuss your specific learning project, please Get in touch today and see how we can help.
We believe that great leadership changes lives.
Actually, we don’t just believe it. We know it, and we see it in the impact of our blended solutions, and in our own transformational journey as Inspire Group grows globally.
Inspire Leaders co-creates and delivers solutions that grow, challenge and nurture great individual and organisational leadership. Because not all great leaders are born; we need to continually learn, practice and grow in all aspects of our lives.
As leaders, we’ve sat through our fair share of ‘transformational leadership programmes’, digested content and tools, had insights and yet somehow not embedded these ‘wonderful’ techniques into our real world. Like many, we’ve blindly struggled on with the debilitating mindset that the more senior we got, the more we had to do.
We know there is a better way. A way we know works.
Over the years, by shifting our focus to the ways and beliefs of leading through reflection, stories, practice and focus on the ‘self’, and away from the mechanics of management, the more memorable, successful and impactful our solutions have become.
By definition, all leaders must have followers. So, hearing how our participants describe the outstanding leaders they’ve followed, and how these leaders made them feel, we’ve redefined our entire approach to leadership development and self improvement.
– If leadership used to be about knowing more, is it now about asking more?
– If it was never really about just doing more, was it actually about being more?
– Because leadership is not something you ‘do’, it’s more than that: it’s a state of ‘being’.
– Think about this. Now think of the most inspiring leader you’ve encountered.
– What made them distinct and different?
You’ll recall the great things they ‘did’; the ‘way’ they did it: there was clarity, coherence and authenticity. But, it was how they made you feel that really set them apart.
We’d love to discuss your specific Team Training needs, so please Get in touch today and see how we can help.
Inspire Group is a leading Australasian blended learning solutions provider. Since 2001 we’ve been designing engaging and award-winning blended learning solutions for a variety of organisations across Australia and New Zealand.
We craft world-class learning experiences to help solve business challenges and shift behavior. Our experienced team brings a unique understanding of the application of how adults learn at work. We will design your learning solution from start to finish. Our blended learning solutions translate into improved job performance.
Over the last 15 years we’ve partnered with hundreds of companies producing thousands of customised blended learning solutions.
What makes us different from the rest is simple. We don’t offer a set of learning products that we sell to our clients. We wouldn’t dare to assume that we understand what you need from the offset. What we do is provide you with a depth of expertise in the learning sector and fall in love with your problem before even thinking about the solution. It sounds weird, we know.
By falling in love with the problem, we begin to discover the best solution for your business and your audience organically, with no assumptions, presumptions or off-the-shelf thinking. Working collaboratively is one of our core principles when tackling any project, and in fact is the first stage of our design process.
The benefit of this approach is the design of any solution we embark on with you will always be bespoke to your requirements. It means we form a true partnership. We know how important it is to ‘get it right’ when you are investing so much time and money into your learning and development resources. By collaborating with you from the outset we have a clear understanding of what you need. This ensures the final solution is as effective and engaging as humanly (and sometimes superhumanly) possible.
We would love to discuss your specific learning project. Get in touch to see how we can help.
Below are some of the learning principles we apply to our blended learning solutions. Having these agreed principles ensure we produce learning that is engaging and effective. Our learning principles focus on adult learners and creating the desired behaviour change.
We’re extremely proud of all the work we’ve done with our clients over the years. Please take a look at some of our Case Studies in our Portfolio to see examples of our great blended learning solutions.
Inspire Group is a leading Australasian elearning company. We specialise in the design and development of customised elearning modules and courses. Since 2001 we’ve been designing engaging and award-winning elearning solutions for clients big and small across Australia and New Zealand.
We craft world-class learning experiences to help solve business challenges and shift behavior. Our experienced team brings a unique understanding of the application of how adults learn at work. We will design your learning solution from start to finish. Our blended learning solutions translate to improved job performance.
Over the last 15 years we’ve partnered with hundreds of companies producing thousands of customised elearning modules.
What makes us different from the rest is simple. We don’t offer a set of elearning products that we sell to our clients. We wouldn’t dare to assume that we understand what you need from the offset. What we do is provide you with a depth of expertise in the learning sector and fall in love with your problem before even thinking about the solution. It sounds weird, we know.
By falling in love with the problem, we begin to discover the best solution for your business and your audience organically, with no assumptions, presumptions or off-the-shelf thinking. Working collaboratively is one of our core principles when tackling any project, and in fact is the first stage of our design process.
The benefit of this approach is the design of any solution we embark on with you will always be bespoke to your requirements. It means we form a true partnership. We know how important it is to ‘get it right’ when you are investing so much time and money into your learning and development resources. By collaborating with you from the outset we have a clear understanding of what you need. This ensures the final solution is as effective and engaging as humanly (and sometimes superhumanly) possible.
We would love to discuss your specific learning project. Get in touch to see how we can help.
Below are some of the elearning principles we apply to our elearning modules. Having these agreed principles ensure we produce learning that is engaging and effective. Our e
learning principles focus on adult learners and creating the desired behaviour change.
We’re extremely proud of all the work we’ve done with our clients over the years. Please take a look at some of our Case Studies in our Portfolio to see some of our great elearning examples
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