Innovation in Practice

JANUARY 12, 2018

When thinking about creativity in teams, we often imagine a bunch of people in front of a flipchart throwing on the paper whatever comes to their mind – brainstorming. But, what actually is brainstorming? This is why: most ideas produced during brainstorming sessions don’t work in reality, because of a lack of essential filters.

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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. Your agenda should balance structured meeting time with breaks and informal interaction opportunities.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Benefits of Facilitating Strategic Planning Offsites Facilitating strategic planning offsites offers a multitude of benefits, from enhancing team cohesion to driving organizational alignment. Improved Focus : With day-to-day distractions left behind, your team can concentrate fully on strategic issues and high-level thinking.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Communication Channel Purpose Email Formal updates and announcements Instant Messaging Quick, informal communication Video Conferencing Team meetings and collaborative discussions Project Management Platform Tracking tasks and progress Leaders can also foster an environment where open dialogue is encouraged, and diverse viewpoints are respected.

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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. Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Not only can you discover new ideas, but you might have noticed your team falling into a pitfall of using the same solution multiple times due to its simplicity and familiarity. Creative thinking exercises enable you to move away from these solutions and find new ones that meet the specific needs of your project.

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CMOE

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Efficient Systems : Each team should build their own routines that they follow consistently to coordinate and combine their efforts and finish team tasks on time. Delegation of Tasks : As teams get acquainted with the abilities of each member, team leaders will learn how to best split tasks between them.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Facilitating Effective Sessions When you’re tasked with designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning, the core of your success lies in facilitating sessions that are not only effective but also engaging. These activities should be tailored to your team’s dynamics and the goals of the offsite.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Design Exercises 100

Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

For strategies on leveraging experiential intelligence to create psychological safety for high-performing teams, delve into our resource on leveraging experiential intelligence to create psychology safety for high performing teams. This atmosphere encourages risk-taking and innovation, essential for business growth.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. We’ve all been to uninspiring organizational meetings before. Far too often, engaging and innovative meetings are rare and fall short of accomplishing their goals. You can host more innovative innovation meetings that inspire.

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CMOE

APRIL 20, 2021

Showing that you care is the top way that managers can build loyalty in their team members. This can come across in a number of ways: Having regular one-on-one meetings: Schedule a private conversation with your team members at least once per month, if not more often. Would different tasks fit their personality better?

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The Human Factor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Team building is hard. . This team-building drill becomes harder when you are recruiting your SaaS marketing team. Now, when you know the core strategy, let’s take a look at the steps on how to structure a SaaS marketing team. . Brainstorm your ideal team structure. The worst part? .

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Corporations assign teams without skills or experience, rapidly conduct "brainstorming" exercises based primarily on current opinion or past experience and move as quickly as possible to present a small handful of ideas to a wary executive team. Innovation teams deeply consider customer needs and emerging opportunities.

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Underperforming Technical Team Product Development Innovation Exercises 100

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Inappropriate meeting behavior that shuts down others, hosing collaborative work. Teams and work groups don’t know how to be collaborative. Yes, you can train people in creative thinking, Front-End-of-Innovation (FEI) frameworks, problem solving, and meeting facilitation. And yes, this can be trained.

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CMOE

APRIL 27, 2021

Encourage your team members to share their aspirations and values. To get started, pose these questions to yourself, in one-on-one discussions with team contributors, or in team meetings: What are some things you have valued in your role and throughout your career? Team Mentality over Hierarchy. and What if?

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Leanstack

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

I was meeting Fabian Riesen (Fabi), who had casually offered to take me flying over the Swiss Alps the week before. Business Model Brainstorming During the eMBA course, the class started applying Running Lean and brainstormed several possible business models. As this was my first visit to Switzerland, I jumped on the offer.

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Peer Insight

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Framing facilitates decision-making and helps to align broader teams, build confidence, and make decisions with leadership. So, do an audit on your strategy – if you can’t answer these 4 questions, meet with senior leaders to determine the answers: Why does this innovation team exist?

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KindlingApp

JUNE 1, 2015

I instantly knew that the book contained the foundation of the culture I would hope to build in MidAmerica—my only question was whether the MidAmerica team was ready for it. Prior to my arrival the team had gone through two years of coaching, training, and team building to establish a foundation of trust.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

These desired learning outcomes were addressed during the four-hour workshop where culture change, strategy and methods of brainstorming and communicating, and other topics were focused in with action. It’s not typical to how most people are usually brainstorming and having meetings in an office. Use what the experts are doing.

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hackerearth

MAY 12, 2017

The disruption rebels even meet in Spain for a week-long team building exercise and brainstorming, concluding it with a 24-hour hackathon of designers, programmers, business managers, Lego geniuses, and more. Lego has managed to wring sustainability by adopting the Lean startup approach.

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Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Since 1987, I have been facilitating a wide variety of high octave business meetings for just about every industry on planet earth. But when push comes to shove (as it often does), the single most effective meeting facilitation ability I've discovered is the most mysterious one of all: presence. The DNA of the meetings we run

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Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Since 1987, I have been facilitating a wide variety of high octave business meetings for just about every industry on planet earth. But when push comes to shove (as it often does), the single most effective meeting facilitation ability I've discovered is the most mysterious one of all: presence. The DNA of the meetings we run

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This can be achieved through regular team meetings, suggestion boxes, and an open-door policy by the management. Solutions: Structured Feedback Mechanisms: Implementing structured mechanisms for feedback and ideas, such as regular brainstorming sessions or digital suggestion boxes, can help manage employee input effectively.

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