Success Stories are a way for you or your Brainstorm admin to celebrate the success that your idea has had.  By writing a success story, you provide proof to other innovators in Brainstorm that innovation really can happen – inspiring them to embark on their own innovation journeys.

Your story becomes visible on the Home Page, Ideas Category Page, and your Idea's Profile Page.  Creating the Success Story also triggers email notifications to those that follow your idea.  That means more recognition for you and your team. And who doesn’t like getting a little recognition?

Adding a Success Story

• On your Idea's Profile Page, Scroll to the "Success Stories" area

• Click "add success story

• Type a Headline and Description for your story (very similar to how you submitted your idea originally)
• Upload an image related to your story (optional, but highly encouraged)
• Click "Submit"

Note: You can write multiple success stories for your ideas.  For example, you may write one story about how a senior leader removed a key obstacle and then another story about how your idea was implemented (you could even do another about the impact the idea had!).

Viewing Success Stories

On the home page, you'll randomly see one of the five most recently written success stories in your Brainstorm.  If you want to get a more comprehensive view of all the successes that are happening across your organization, do the following:

• Go to the Ideas Category Page (click "Ideas" in the top navigation)
• Scroll to the "Success Stories" section
• Click "show more" to see more Success Stories

What are good topics for Success Stories?

You can't really go wrong, but here are some ideas to get you started:

• Your idea was released or implemented
• Your idea led to some tangible outcome ($$$ generated, hours saved, employees delighted, etc.)
• Someone went above and beyond to help your idea (a senior leader removed an obstacle, a person in a different group engaged when they didn't have to)
• You became aware of another similar idea and didn't expend duplicated effort
• Someone made a really insightful comment that changed the way you thought about your idea