BrainZooming

AUGUST 11, 2016

What leadership skills are necessary to successfully champion a collaborative strategy ? A client fully immersed in developing and implementing a collaborative strategy asked that question. When we leave after the plan is completed, however, we’re finding many leaders aren’t prepared to implement a collaborative strategy plan.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 16, 2016

Whenever possible, we try to help clients select a mix of people to participate in group strategy exercises. We are also proponents for reaching beyond familiar people that are always involved strategic planning meetings and drive the outcomes of group strategy exercises. 9 Ideas on How to Involve a Team in Group Strategy Exercises.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 27, 2015

With a strong brand and a robust branding strategy , there are many ways to deliver valuable brand benefits to customers. If, however, usage is declining for one of the best ways your brand delivers customer benefits, should your turnaround branding strategy focus on cutting back in providing it? A Personal Invitation’s Impact.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2017

Talking to executives, you hear the expectation that an organization should implement a solid strategic plan strategy-by-strategy. When you develop a plan from a collaborative, conversationally-driven strategy planning process , you see other tangible impacts. Contact us, and let’s book time to talk.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

The challenge in a client meeting was developing the strategy for a later meeting intended to build support for a biennial community event. The team leader asked, “How is it possible to listen to us talk and turn it into a strategy so quickly?”. 9 Creative Thinking Skills to Turn Talk into Strategy. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 2, 2015

When a brand strategy change is planned, what happens first? An earlier “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence addressed this important brand strategy question about how changes are rolled out to the public. This could come via broad employee involvement in providing input to the strategy.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 30, 2016

There is a mutual contribution from both parties toward the strategy and ideas. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. – Mike Brown. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

Someone downloaded a free Brainzooming strategy eBook, noting his biggest strategy challenge is “how to do a strategic planning process when you are new.” Secure copies of previous plans and strategy documents, and don’t settle for the first things people offer you. All the Strategy Roles You Need.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

I’m scheduled for a background interview today on creating a thought leadership strategy. While I’m sure it was a completely sincere gesture, I think pursuing a thought leadership strategy isn’t something a brand or an individual shouldn’t do. What to Say about a Thought Leadership Strategy? Value Leadership Strategy.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2017

10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. This Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons leaders can use to boost collaboration, meaningful strategic conversations, and results. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

JULY 6, 2016

Innovation Strategy. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. This Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons leaders can use to boost collaboration, meaningful strategic conversations, and results. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 8, 2016

mini-Book, we ask a question about the biggest strategy implementation opportunity or challenge the individual is facing in his or her organization. Creating Organizational Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options. 9 Strategic Thinking Questions – Helping Teams Execute Strategy. Someone downloaded Results!!!

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 1, 2016

Collaborative planning implies a process that goes beyond the board room to include individuals throughout the organization in meaningful ways to provide insights and input to shape organizational strategy. A large group really makes collaborative strategy planning work. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

One reveals an important lesson as you develop employee engagement strategies. 3 Vital Employee Engagement Strategies for Winning Ideas. The obvious lesson relative to employee engagement strategies is simple: Listen to, consider, and act on smart ideas from team members. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. . – Mike Brown. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Yesterday’s post on using a new type of SWOT analysis to stimulate bolder strategic conversations in strategy meetings garnered quite a bit of attention. This helps a group inside of a strategy meeting work harder and more effectively to generate ideas. Creating engagement with our employees ? We can help! Mike Brown. .

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

To make it a little easier to track down ideas for how you can approach developing strategy this year, here are nineteen Brainzooming articles filled with 113 techniques and ideas for improving your organization’s strategic planning process. 4 Ways to Make a Strategic Planning Process Productive. Mike Brown. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We apply that approach no matter whether we’re clarifying strategy, determining objectives, developing the strategy plan, or beginning implementation. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. – Mike Brown.

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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. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 20, 2016

What is the business strategy behind launching this new program? If you have questions about the best ways to broaden participation in the earliest stages, be sure to download our Results, mini-book. 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 22, 2016

Strategic Planning – All the Strategy Roles You Need. Creating Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options. 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Collaborating on a Vision Statement.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Prioritize the time you invest in creating specific product/service marketing plans based on each one’s expected contribution to revenue and profit growth. Look at how many strategies and tactics you actually implemented this year, and use that as the threshold for how deeply detailed your plan for next year should be.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for an industrial company. The company wants to make significant changes to a major production process. During the innovation strategy discussions, we addressed the production process changes from five different perspectives. Are we done yet?

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy and then turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Going into a strategy meeting today that is sure to be a snoozer ? Even if you are going into the meeting with the same old people , the same old topics, and the same old expectations to just get a strategy done and put into a notebook on a shelf so you can go back to doing what you’ve always been doing, there is hope! Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Instead of requiring people complete complex strategic planning templates unrelated to daily business, we use productive interactions to change the strategic planning process from completing complex forms into conversations, events, and experiences people engage in and learn from as they participate. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Last week was diverse in the Brainzooming world, as we were engaged in serving clients across many different aspects of what we do. While we perform a tremendous amount of what we do online via our Zoomference online collaboration platform , engaging people directly always pushes what we do into new areas.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 4, 2016

Seriously, we started in April, laying out how we’d approach everything so that by the time we engaged the rest of the organization in mid-summer we had everything ready to go. 10 Keys to Involving Employees In Your Strategy. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Rmukesh Gupta

MARCH 13, 2017

Start an innovation project with the intention of creating the next high growth product internally. In their book “ The Power of Little Ideas “, David Robertson shares his perspectives on how answering 4 simple (but extremely difficult questions) can solve this dilema. .

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

10 Keys to Involving Employees In Your Strategy. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy that turns into results. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

When discussing a strategic planning or innovation strategy engagement with a client, we use the graphic below to design our recommended approach. Sometimes they proceed an in-person strategy planning meeting, but not always. They developed a sales strategy and associated messaging for the upcoming year.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

I asked them to engage in some strategic thinking about innovation opportunities for the company. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Designing strategic thinking questions leading to engaging conversation among familiar and new participants. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy and then turn it into results.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

Since all the companies competed with one another, each one needed to determine its own business strategies. And if it’s bad, use other strategic thinking exercises to gently bring the ideas back to something smarter and more productive. – Mike Brown. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. – Mike Brown. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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