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

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

JUNE 8, 2016

It’s always incredible to work directly with Brainzooming blog readers in supporting their companies’ innovation strategy objectives. Last week, we presented a creative and strategic thinking workshop for a Brainzooming reader who leads the national sales division of a global industrial manufacturer.

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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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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. Getting a few hours of sleep and starting fresh in the morning (even if it’s REALLY EARLY) has been creatively productive.

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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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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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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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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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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

We can be proactive by asking these two generative questions: What if the true potential of AI lies in embracing its ability to augment human creativity and aid innovation, especially in enhancing creative problem solving, at all levels of civil society, instead of avoiding it?

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 4, 2022

To initiate innovation, forming the right kind of mind is a crucial aspect of Design Thinking. These days, it is perceived that creativity and lateral thinking can be learned by implementing the processes and taking the proper steps to forming the necessary mindset. Blog Subscrition Here Email*. It’s About People.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In last month’s blog , we shared how consciousness , imagination, and curiosity are the fundamental precursors to creativity, invention, and innovation. Creativity is wonderfully mysterious—and frustratingly fleeting. What can successful innovators learn from cats? A recent blog post, Why Are Cats So Curious?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Every now and then, we’ll run a post that recaps Facebook and Twitter updates, blog post scraps, and other random creative thinking, all smushed together, Larry King-style. Having someone channeling an early Sandra Bernhardt attitude in a creative session is not advantageous. Travel Blogging at an Airport Bar.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Learn resourceful emotional states, traits, mindsets, behaviours, and human skills to embody, enact and execute the desired changes strategically and systemically. Cultivating their emotional and cognitive agility, creative, critical, and associative thinking skills to challenge the status quo and think differently.

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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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Idea Champions

MARCH 22, 2021

My intention not to call attention to myself, but to let you know that I've been deeply immersed in the creative process for decades and, along the way, have learned a lot about what enables the origination, development, and implementation of new possibilities and what obstructs it. In other words, I practice what I preach.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 28, 2023

In our previous two blogs, we outlined the need, in our chaotic world of unknowns, to reclaim our focus and attention and take charge of our own minds. All of these resource us to be adaptive, to transform the power of our hearts and minds to be creative, accomplish, learn, grow, and innovate through disruption.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

They mistakenly think the term innovation refers to only big, multi-year, heavy investment, ‘revolutionary’ changes. Which means they do not believe small changes over time, failing, learning and adjusting can or will have a meaningful impact. Podcast Link: Fabienne on the Idea to Value Podcast. Magazine Great Leadership Speaker.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 30, 2021

If your meetings aren’t accomplishing organizational goals or building collaboration, it’s time to take them in an entirely different direction. From hackathons to stand up meetings and everything in between, we understand that a more collaborative approach can make a massive difference in boosting efficiency, creativity, and effectiveness.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 15, 2016

That’s why we like servant leaders that figure out ways to work collaboratively, productively, AND creatively with other members of the team. So get creative individually. Get creative in a group. And remember that when you are working creatively with a group, be sure to make creative room for others! – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

We, however, routinely share how we do things via our methodology, tools, and learnings from Brainzooming strategic thinking workshops. Why Do We Give Away So Many Strategic Thinking Exercises? These compilations are organized to be easier to use than combing through individual blog posts. What to Blog About?

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 23, 2015

We will also collaborate with you to turn them into reality with smart strategies and solid implementation plans. Along the way, your team will learn actionable creative thinking skills and dynamic strategy exercises that will serve them and your organization for years to come. Your Friends at The Brainzooming Group.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

You know, this week doesn’t have to be as unproductive as last week, what with business meetings going nowhere along with wasting time, positive energy, and any hope of creativity. The thing is, there’s a different way to structure business meetings to help a group come together and collaborate in an innovative, productive way.

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ImagineNation

MAY 30, 2023

To truly differentiate yourself as a leader, learning how to comfortably inhabit both elements of each paradox will be critical to your success.” These multiple perspective-shifting questions include: How might you, as both a leader ( and coach) learn how to navigate a world that is increasingly both global and local?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 4, 2016

He said they learned over time about how to purposefully manage creative diversity most effectively. Over time, however, they discovered that while they wanted participants with creative diversity, it was important to include individuals from groups that would actually return to the business and work together to solve problems.

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Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

If you had told me two years ago that I was going to be leading experiential learning activities in a field with 100 Muslim teachers. But that's exactly what happened and a whole lot more -- way more than I can express in this brief blog post. (The working title of my still-to-be-written book about the experience?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

Even cynical types were openly surprised at the insights and learnings. It was what I’d imagined, as a child, that college would be like: a big group of friendly people who are genuinely excited about learning and doing good in the world. In the meantime, I’ll be sharing some of my takeaways from conference, here on the blog.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 9, 2017

It is in the spirit of our mutual respect and collaboration, then, that I implore you to consider a simple upgrade to your modus operandus. So please, please, please: learn how to use technology, already. Stop finding clever ways to avoid doing tech-related things because you don’t want people to think you’re too old.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Icebreakers can also be used throughout the retreat to facilitate different groupings with creative thinking and problem solving purposes. Contact us online today to learn how we many design and facilitate your leadership retreat. Top Remote Workshop Software Tools to Innovate & Collaborate. Focus on reflection.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

You can provide people with strategic thinking exercises, creative thinking tools, strategy questions, and ways to collaborate with one another, using structure to help imagine better strategies. This means there is no opportunity for productive collaboration to devise the plan.

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IdeaSpies

AUGUST 19, 2019

INNOVATION BLOG. Search for: Clever Ideas , Innovation Blog. Large scale problems are addressed in socially collaborative scenarios across multiple subjects, degrees and faculties. Work Integrated Learning. While creative thinking is becoming highly desirable, critical thinking is more important than ever before.

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BrainZooming

JULY 31, 2017

If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog e mail updates. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and boost your creative thinking skills! – Mike Brown.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2019

Being cash strapped as a new school (and knowing consultants were not cheap), I started following Mitch Ditkoff's blog, The Heart Of Innovation. After many years of reading his blog, I finally found an opportunity to invite Mitch to Al Siraat for a short visit to explore the possibilities of what our collaboration might look like.

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