Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Increased Morale and Engagement : Offsites can also serve as a team-building exercise, boosting morale and increasing engagement among team members. Consider venues that offer the right balance between work-conducive spaces and relaxation areas to keep your team engaged and rejuvenated throughout the offsite.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 7, 2021

There are many different exercises that people use for innovation, but very few of them are as effective as mind mapping. If you want to learn more about collaboration and innovation, check out our article on design thinking. Enables Tiered Thinking.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from daily operations, you and your team can focus on long-term goals, engage in deep discussions, and forge stronger bonds. Icebreakers and Team Building Activities Kickstarting your offsite with icebreakers and team-building exercises is a strategic move to warm up the group.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Curious : Exhibiting a strong desire to learn and understand more. Encouraging a Mindset of Continuous Learning Continuous learning is the bedrock of innovation. Leaders who prioritize learning are more likely to introduce innovative ideas and solutions.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

A dynamic speaker can transform the atmosphere, creating an engaging and thought-provoking experience for all attendees. Here are some strategies you might learn about: Encouraging risk-taking and learning from failure to drive progress. Offering continuous learning opportunities to keep team members sharp and engaged.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Engaging in this practice equips you with a clearer understanding of where your organization stands and where it needs to go, helping to navigate through competitive and rapidly changing markets. Engagement : Increases engagement and ownership among team members by involving them in the strategic process.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas. In planning how we would help these companies, we realized there were three possibilities whenever we asked people to answer a question inside our strategic thinking exercises: The answer could show their strategic thinking was in the right direction.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Through a blend of strategic planning sessions, team-building activities, and reflective exercises, a well-designed offsite can unlock new perspectives, ignite creativity, and lay the groundwork for transformative growth. Engagement can lead to higher quality contributions, more innovative ideas, and stronger commitment to action plans.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 17, 2016

Small groups prepared the personas in advance by brainstorming answers to ten questions on each audience member. Here’s an overview of each of the strategic thinking exercises : 5 Content Marketing Strategy Exercises to Generate Audience-Oriented Topics. What questions do audience members ask during the buying journey?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

When is the right time for brainstorming in strategic planning , or really any other type of planning for that matter? Brainstorming CAN make sense throughout a strategic planning process. The Right Time for Brainstorming in Strategic Planning. The Right Time for Brainstorming in Strategic Planning. The short answer?

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

From a facilitation standpoint, it was the most arduous couple of days of going through strategic thinking exercises I recall. What questions or exercises can I eliminate to save time while still getting enough input in all the areas we are covering for each innovation strategy? 11 Things Running through a Facilitator’s Head.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

During in-person and online strategic planning workshops , we regularly use a strategic thinking exercise that helps leadership groups quickly identify a shared future vision statement. Pushing Back on a Strategic Thinking Exercise. Adapting this strategic thinking exercise for a client , however, we experienced MAJOR push back.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Groups 40

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

We have been working with a client that had done a lot of strategic planning exercises about a new initiative. Taking a look at the list, we started trying different approaches to arrange the big list of ideas from their strategic planning exercises into sensible groups to help stimulate progress. From Latest to Earliest.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

By incorporating AI into the brainstorming process, teams can overcome cognitive biases and explore a broader design space. To harness the full potential of AI in enhancing creativity, teams can integrate AI tools into their design thinking workshops and brainstorming sessions.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

On occasion we do a public event where leaders from various organizations can come together to learn from us and learn from each other to become better leaders for innovation and design thinking. Here is a short case study about this kind of program including what participants wanted to focus on and what they learned and gained.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2023

We will also conduct an icebreaker activity to get everyone comfortable and engaged. Empathize: We will conduct empathy exercises to help the organization better understand the problem they are trying to solve. This could include exercises such as conducting a stakeholder analysis or mapping out the organization’s value chain.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 4, 2019

Do the people in your organization treat invitations to brainstorming sessions like jury duty summons? Do people roll their eyes when the brainstorming is over, convinced that nothing new is going to materialize? Past experience has shown us that learning goes deeper and lasts longer in this format. Number of techniques taught.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We can take our decades of experience to design an innovative learning and naming workshop experience just for your organization. After learning our process you’ll be able to create names, names, names, and more names for anything new that pops up. Lastly, this exercise can serve as a teambuilding activity itself.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 28, 2019

Idea Champions has trained quite a few PR and Marketing firms in the art and science of facilitating breakthrough brainstorming sessions. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, Idea Champions' ability to quickly and effectively teach my colleagues and me how to facilitate brainstorming sessions changed the future of our business.

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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. Additionally, learn how to maximize team performance by leveraging experiential intelligence to create psychology safety for high performing teams.

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Michael Roberto

JANUARY 10, 2022

What types of "warm-up" should you engage in before "running the race" together? Physical activity: As Annie Murphy Paul notes in her fabulous new book, The Extended Mind , engaging in some physical activity can be an effective way to enhance your brainpower. What might they like to learn more about in this situation?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

Creative Thinking – The Math of Brainstorming and New Ideas. #3 3 Meaningfully Engages and Involves Employees. 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto. 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto. 5 Employee Engagement Ideas When Turnover Is High.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

You might learn more than people, or the objects you’re studying, superficially reveal.” Especially, engage in that for which you have not been schooled.” David Peat author and physicist, director of the Pari Centre for New Learning near Siena, Italy “Hold the intention or the question. Listen carefully and pay close attention.

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Michael Roberto

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

These scholars asked the question: "Could repeatedly 'exercising' the creativity muscle help build up creative performance over time?" Brucks and associate professor of marketing Szu-chi Huang , regular brainstorming sessions are not likely to lead to an increase in unique ideas. Their results proved surprising. Change things up!

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CMOE

APRIL 14, 2023

Meeting facilitators and Learning & Development professionals must evaluate these challenges and identify the best practices to overcome them to create the most valuable experience for the participants. With participants live on camera, you can see levels of engagement and how participants are reacting to your facilitation.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2021

The Lightning Decision Jam (LDJ) is a short design sprint exercise advanced by the team at AJ&Smart that has since gained popularity across the design thinking and innovation space. An activity like this could also be an engaging part of a design thinking workshop. Brainstorming templates. Conclusion.

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BrainZooming

JULY 6, 2016

This time of year, preparing for upcoming strategic planning exercises may seem like something far in the future. As we look ahead to clients’ strategic planning processes, we’re developing new strategic thinking questions to freshen our Brainzooming strategic planning exercises. – Mike Brown. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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100%Open

JULY 7, 2020

Since 2011 we have hosted a grand total of 36 Union events, but Summer Union 2020 was the first of its kind as it was entirely virtual from farm to fork – from our first brainstorm to the execution of the event itself. We brainstormed the three crucial stages of innovation: Explore – how to have ideas and extend networks.

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Brainstorming Innovation Collaboration Report 69

Moves the Needle

MAY 20, 2022

this is best as a team exercise or better, several teams). If yes or no, we’d love to chat with you so we can learn more.). We need to improve user engagement x% or incrase market share y% in order to hit our numbers.). Optional: brainstorm new ideas to tackle the gaps. How to use Project Prioritization.

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Boxes and Arrows

JUNE 24, 2014

I created a simple exercise to help create personal mission statements—something short and meaningful to say about yourself—with some help and encouragement from Christina Wodtke and Anders Ramsay. Vulnerability is engaging. My group was anxious to brainstorm before I was even done telling my story. Learning by teaching.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

In nearly every Brainzooming community collaboration workshop, we conclude with a Plus-Minus-Interesting-Recommendation-Question exercise (a PMIRQ for short). Fresh Ideas and Learning. Brainstorming for technological advancements”. Brainstorming for technological advancements”. Learned a lot”. Networking.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

Brainstorming – 7 Things a Brainstorming Session ISN’T. Brainstorming Is Challenging with these 6 Brainstorming Session Types. 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. Actively engage more employees in strategy AND implementation success. Mike Brown. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Qmarkets

JULY 22, 2021

In today’s blog we will define the key steps that should be included within an effective idea generation process to maximize idea submissions, engagement, and eventually implementation. During this step it is important to make the process as engaging as possible, as well as align it to your overall business goals.

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Stephen Shapiro

APRIL 21, 2020

Instead of everything concluding when the event is over, the end is actually the start of something larger: real learning, application, and value creation. Some speeches have interactivity to keep people engaged, others are more like a show. Find ways to engage people. These are the lowest level of engagement. Automation.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

While leading strategy development in a new company poses challenges (including needing to learn a tremendous amount as you go), it has a comparable number of advantages (Including not laboring under preconceived ideas about how the organization does things). 10 Lessons to Engage Employees and Drive Improved Results. via Shutterstock.

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Innovate2Grow Experts

MARCH 8, 2019

In the previous blogs I have covered the following: Quantum idea generation produces at least 12 times more ideas than brainstorming. This blog covers important “must haves” in planning idea generating exercises based on brain types and provides some real brain type idea generating exercise examples.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Simply put, an executive retreat can help the leadership team at your organization or company tackle your own unique challenges, brainstorm future goals, and build a global vision moving forward. Icebreakers are useful beginning exercises even for teams who know each other quite well. Why organize a leadership retreat? Conclusion.

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