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Creative Thinking Skills – Protecting Yourself from Creative Thinking Challenges

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JANUARY 15, 2016

Sometimes creative thinking challenges come from inside your own head. In many organizations, however, substantial creative thinking challenges come from leaders and cultures that may say they want new thinking, but seem to do everything they can to scuttle creativity.

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Team Collaboration – 14 Benefits from Pre-Meeting Outreach

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MAY 9, 2017

Learning what participants in an upcoming big meeting know, think, and believe before they come together in a large group is one tactic to strengthen team collaboration. 14 Team Collaboration Benefits from Pre-Meeting Outreach. Gaining these team collaboration insights can come through various pre-meeting outreach formats.

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Creative Thinking Activities – 3 Questions to Stop Squandering Diversity

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DECEMBER 14, 2015

Based on all The Brainzooming Group experience in helping clients generate new ideas and innovative strategies, diversity is vital to successful creative thinking activities. For example, at one of our client creative thinking workshops there wasn’t any of diversity to spare. – Mike Brown.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas

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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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Strategic Planning Exercises – Two Types of Structure, One Works

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FEBRUARY 12, 2016

There are a couple of different ways to apply structure to strategic planning exercises : You can enforce using templates and forms participants have to complete so their answers are uniformed and structured. This means there is no opportunity for productive collaboration to devise the plan.

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Strategic Thinking Exercise – An Alternative Vision Statement Approach

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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. Participants assess where they think the organization currently is and where they want it to be in the future on multiple “strategic dimensions.”

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Creative Thinking Skills – 9 Fundamentals to Turn Talk into Strategy

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MARCH 9, 2016

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. Incorporate a bigness and boldness into the language you use to describe the strategy in order to stretch the organization. – Mike Brown.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises – 11 Things Running through a Facilitator’s Head

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DECEMBER 9, 2015

The overall group sizes for each innovation strategy workshop varied from fourteen to more than twenty-five people, depending on the topic. From a facilitation standpoint, it was the most arduous couple of days of going through strategic thinking exercises I recall. 11 Things Running through a Facilitator’s Head.

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Strategic Planning – 3 Surprising Ways Online Collaboration Works

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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 they proceed an in-person strategy planning meeting, but not always. 3 Ways Online Collaboration Works to Deliver Big Benefits.

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41 Surprising Things about Community Collaboration Done Well

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OCTOBER 1, 2015

In nearly every Brainzooming community collaboration workshop, we conclude with a Plus-Minus-Interesting-Recommendation-Question exercise (a PMIRQ for short). 41 Surprising Things about Community Collaboration Done Well. New People Coming Together Collaboratively and Effectively. Small unknown group collaboration”.

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Strategic Planning – 10 Keys to Collaborative Strategy

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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. Kelly Scanlon Show. Just Start!

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Community Collaboration Workshops Come in All Sizes

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The week included: Large scale community collaboration workshops – Nearly eighty students from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale gathered Monday night and a comparable number of Carbondale, IL residents assembled on Tuesday for community collaboration workshops to imagine the community’s future with Gigabit Internet capabilities.

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5 Keys to Streamlining Strategic Planning

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JUNE 28, 2016

Since strategy planning is an infrequent activity, it is difficult for executives to master it. We learned that if we asked executives a series of questions leading to the information needed to complete a strategy plan, they became productive strategy planners. Creative thinking exercises generate ideas, not facts.

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11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun*

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Part of making strategic planning fun involves fun exercises , which we continue to create and share here. This Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons leaders can use to boost collaboration, meaningful strategic conversations, and results.

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5 Employee Engagement Ideas When Turnover Is High

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APRIL 22, 2016

This Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons leaders can use to boost collaboration, meaningful strategic conversations, and results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Strategic Thinking Exercise – 4 Ways to Examine Brand Performance

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JANUARY 11, 2016

Here’s an idea for a new strategic thinking exercise that can be a big help. 4 Ways to Examine Brand Performance as a Strategic Thinking Exercise. This is definitely a strategic thinking exercise idea from the Brainzooming R&D lab. Actively engage more employees in strategy AND implementation success.

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Creative Thinking Skills – Protecting Yourself from Creative Thinking Challenges

Team Collaboration – 14 Benefits from Pre-Meeting Outreach

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Creative Thinking Activities – 3 Questions to Stop Squandering Diversity

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Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas

Strategic Planning Exercises – Two Types of Structure, One Works

Strategic Thinking Exercise – An Alternative Vision Statement Approach

Creative Thinking Skills – 9 Fundamentals to Turn Talk into Strategy

Strategic Thinking Exercises – 11 Things Running through a Facilitator’s Head

Strategic Planning – 3 Surprising Ways Online Collaboration Works

41 Surprising Things about Community Collaboration Done Well

Strategic Planning – 10 Keys to Collaborative Strategy

Community Collaboration Workshops Come in All Sizes

5 Keys to Streamlining Strategic Planning

11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun*

5 Employee Engagement Ideas When Turnover Is High

Strategic Thinking Exercise – 4 Ways to Examine Brand Performance

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