BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

If you’re looking at your organization and wondering where to start to foster a more innovative workplace culture, here are forty articles to go deeper into the topic. Workplace Diversity – The Why, Who, and How of Strategic Thinking. Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

Sometimes creative thinking challenges come from inside your own head. In many organizations, however, substantial creative thinking challenges come from leaders and cultures that may say they want new thinking, but seem to do everything they can to scuttle creativity. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 6, 2017

It is all part of not ASKING for big ideas ; we use big questions that enhance peoples’ natural creative thinking skills. Based on our experience using extreme creativity questions, they DO tend to yield bigger ideas. 5 Quick Tips on Extreme Creativity and Creative Thinking Skills. Here are five of them: 1.

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BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

Learning what participants in an upcoming big meeting know, think, and believe before they come together in a large group is one tactic to strengthen team collaboration. 14 Team Collaboration Benefits from Pre-Meeting Outreach. Gain a sense of what people already think.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

They requested a follow-up innovation workshop to inspire bigger, further out thinking. We brought two specific inspirations to the innovation workshop: extreme and analogy-based creative thinking exercises. You will learn effective, proven ways to move your implementation plan forward with greater speed and success.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

It’s about making informed choices and encouraging your team to think beyond the day-to-day tasks. Dive deeper into this topic with our article on creating business strategy in a world of AI-driven rapid change. Encouraging Open Dialogue and Collaboration Open dialogue and collaboration are the bedrocks of strategic thinking.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

These speakers cover a range of topics, from the innovation process to the creation of a culture that nurtures creativity and collaboration. Here are some strategies you might learn about: Encouraging risk-taking and learning from failure to drive progress.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2017

Short Story: Look for specifics and things that people can actually do or perform to move creative thinking into action. How do you move from creative thinking into action? Two of the client’s senior staff members said this was a question they expected us to answer during the strategic thinking workshop.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

XQ refers to the ability to draw from past experiences, learnings, and insights to make better decisions, solve complex problems, and navigate the uncertainties of the corporate world. This approach encourages a more collaborative and innovative team dynamic, which is essential for business growth and success.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 30, 2016

I mentioned upcoming business collaboration opportunities for Brainzooming yesterday , including co-presentations, creating content, and developing new workshop and training offerings. What to look for in a business collaboration? The collaborator brings something different (and complementary) to what we do and offer.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Their influence extends beyond mere presentations, playing an integral part in fostering team-building and collaboration among members. Effective speakers can identify and address underlying issues that may be hindering team cohesion, thereby setting the stage for more effective collaboration post-event.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Based on all The Brainzooming Group experience in helping clients generate new ideas and innovative strategies, diversity is vital to successful creative thinking activities. For example, at one of our client creative thinking workshops there wasn’t any of diversity to spare. Diversity is a terrible thing to waste.

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Cris Beswick

JUNE 11, 2024

When psychological safety is present, people are more likely to engage in creative problem-solving, share their insights, and collaborate effectively, ultimately driving innovation and organisational success. Psychological safety creates a space where failure is seen as a learning opportunity rather than a source of blame or shame.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. By removing distractions and dedicating time solely to strategic thinking, you create an atmosphere where creativity and big-picture thinking can thrive.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We’re with a client today, delivering a strategic and creative thinking skills for sales workshop. As an outgrowth of the workshop, here is a strategic and creative thinking skills compilation comprised of articles that support the Brainzooming workshop we’re delivering. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

We’ve certainly covered the heck out of how bad bosses , toxic cultures , and negative comments can crush creative thinking and creativity. What you might not consider, however, is how an uber-positive boss that is TOO OVER THE TOP when communicating how great early stage ideas are ALSO CRUSHES creative thinking.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 22, 2016

Delivering a creative thinking workshop , I was eavesdropping on conversations at five tables full of attendees. One group was starting to use one of our creative thinking exercises. When this takes happens, creative thinking exercises becomes just that many more boxes to shut down ideas that are off the beaten path.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I’ll be presenting on social media super models , followed by a VERY QUICK creative thinking exercises for sales presentation. The creative thinking exercises for sales content is a different take on both familiar and some new creative thinking topics. Force Yourself to Self-Evaluate.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

This can help maintain energy levels and encourage informal collaboration. If you’re looking for more detailed guidance on venue selection and logistical planning, explore the article on facilitating strategic planning offsites.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 6, 2016

We’re developing a strategic thinking webinar for a client on cultivating and sustaining creativity among its salesforce. Since the webinar is with the organization’s sales leadership, the focus is on creative thinking skills they can and should be embracing to help their salespeople see opportunities in new ways.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

A recent McKinsey Leading Off – Essentials for leaders and those they lead email newsletter, referred to an article “The organization of the future: Enabled by gen AI, driven by people” which stated that digitization, automation, and AI will reshape whole industries and every enterprise.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 8, 2016

We integrated the Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop into their annual sales meeting. Our going-in plan for the five-hour workshop was to interactively share and practice Brainzooming creative thinking exercises the sales, marketing, and engineering team could use to expand customer opportunities in new ways.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

As a result, the pressure for inspiration and creative thinking was always dependent on me. What did I need to do to trigger creative thinking? At some point, God provided the grace to realize my creative inspiration was from outside, not inside. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

To delve further into the developmental aspects of organizational culture and how it can be shaped, explore our article on develop executive leadership to drive organizational culture change. For instance, if collaboration is a core value, open office spaces that encourage teamwork can be a powerful symbol.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

9 Creative Thinking Skills to Turn Talk into Strategy. The team leader’s question prompted this list of 9 creative thinking skills that help turn strategic conversations (or even conversations that seem like talking without any particular strategic focus) into something that feels like strategy.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

These qualities help in maintaining the audience’s attention and fostering an environment conducive to learning and inspiration. The qualities of a good keynote speaker article provides additional insights into what makes a speaker’s style effective. Event Type Audience Size Feedback Score Tech Conference 500 4.5/5

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Idea Champions

APRIL 9, 2024

Free the Genie for Teams is a simple, online, collaborative process that enables teams to unleash their collective genius and generate breakthrough ideas in service to a compelling goal, challenge or opportunity. They also see how simple it can be to get out the box with the right kind of nudge.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 19, 2015

What’s a “pizza meeting,” and what does it have to do with creative thinking? Back in the Fortune 500 days, we facilitated so many strategic planning workshop sessions we gave up renting creativity-oriented offsite locations. Yup, that’s a dirty little secret of creative thinking. What are my pizza meetings?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 29, 2016

Creative Thinking Skills – Some Working, Some Not Working. Amid the odd times, it’s no surprise my creative thinking skills have varied widely the past few months. It’s also fair to share what creative thinking skills HAVEN’T been working lately: Trying to write on the iPad.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Success factors in strategic planning and creating collaborative strategy were the central topics we tackled on an edition of Smart Companies Radio, hosted by Kelly Scanlon, the owner of Thinking Bigger Business Media, Inc., 10 Keys to Collaborative Strategy and Strategic Planning. Creating Strategic Impact mini-book.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

shared in a recent article “Losing from day one: Why even successful transformations fall short” – Organisations have realized only 67 percent of the maximum financial benefits that their transformations could have achieved. Yet, according to research conducted over fifteen years by McKinsey & Co.,

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We’re big proponents of the value of bringing together a diverse group of people with varied creative thinking skills for strategic planning workshops within organizations and communities. Sometimes we use online collaboration within an in-person strategic planning workshop. Discover How Online Collaboration Boosts Progress.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

In 2016, I wrote the article What is innovation? ” Since then, the article went viral, with thousands of shares and hundreds of thousands of views. This meant the original article only included male perspectives. Diana Kander. Esther Gons. Karin Hurt. Robyn Bolton. Janet Sernack. Introduction.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Here are twenty-one articles organizing project management techniques we’ve been sharing with clients to help create needed changes in their organizations. Dealing with Difficult People – 16 Articles on Help and Support for Prickly People. You’ll learn ways to help your team: Move forward even amid uncertainty.

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ImagineNation

MAY 30, 2023

Requiring us to make sense of and navigate the paradoxical nature of innovation leadership, by developing multiple perspectives to re-think how to respond positively and creatively to the high levels of tension and range of massive disruptions we collectively face in our current high-speed, constantly changing, global operating environments.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 17, 2017

I’m a great client because of all the creative thinking background and experience communicating with creative people. I’m horrible because I have just enough creative chops to do many things myself, which I’m not reluctant to do if a project isn’t quite working. That’s my creative advice. Do with it what you will.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2018

Move to the Shrimp creative thinking exercise. Need a strategy, creativity, innovation or other learning and motivational boost for your audience? If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Be very silent (uncomfortably silent) until the audience notices and re-engages.

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