For example, Shelter has recently introduced an innovation labs programme where every three months it puts a small, cross-department team together to work on a specific challenge.
In another study, we asked participants to work on a creative challenge, and we paid them a small sum of money for each idea they generated.
Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship is a practice-based course in which students from across campus form interdisciplinary teams to work on a social challenge of their choice.
Between modules, return to your office to work on a design challenge for your company and initiate the 360º leadership assessment.
Participants should come prepared to work on an important challenge in their organization.
This was a constructive way to continue performance-related dialogue, and would give an employee a chance to work on any challenges he or she might have... plus discuss/explore other skills or opportunities of interest.
I have to say that being a full-time Master's student and keeping a part-time GSR up at the lab, while also trying to find time to work on a separate Master's project was a challenge at times.
I was worried that I was too far behind, since most students had spent at least some of their summers conducting research for their theses, but with support from the tutorial instructors, I was able to work on a project that interested and challenged me.
This type of program may also be beneficial for employees from low-income demographic groups, who for example may have more challenges commuting to work on a regular basis (this is more likely to be true for entry-level positions).
Even in my first semester, Wharton challenged me to work on a team and essentially become a management consultant for a local non-profit.
A summer undergraduate research opportunity at FREEDM Systems Center at North Carolina State University, challenged Bustamante to work on an electrical engineering project, helping to design a computer model for a rooftop solar panel array that she helped install.
