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Accelerate Innovation — With Experiential Learning

Gregg Fraley

Innovation Session Designs Don’t Engage. They go straight to brainstorming without preparing minds, and that’s a big reason sessions fail. Magazine by Jessica Stillman. In innovation work, ideally, a facilitator guides a team beyond its current knowledge zone and into a new place of greater understanding.

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How to Make Sure You’re Heard in a Difficult Conversation

Mills-Scofield

Don’t say things like “I feel so bad about saying this” or “This is really hard for me to do,” because it takes the focus away from the problem and toward your own neediness. This will engage your colleague in problem solving, which is inherently collaborative instead of combative. What are our options?” Use hypotheticals.

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Mash-Ups for Innovation, a How To Guide

Gregg Fraley

This article will likely be part of a book on the front end of innovation that’s in development, stay tuned. It certainly doesn’t happen in most brainstorming sessions. How to effectively do Mash-Ups, either alone or with a team, is not a simple answer. Meanwhile I hope you find this guide useful.

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