Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Improved Focus : With day-to-day distractions left behind, your team can concentrate fully on strategic issues and high-level thinking. Enhanced Collaboration : Offsites encourage open communication and teamwork, fostering a spirit of cooperation that can lead to innovative solutions. Objectives should be S.M.A.R.T

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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. We turn that input into a collaborative vision statement. Pushing Back on a Strategic Thinking Exercise.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2017

Someone searched and came to the Brainzooming.com website looking for strategic thinking in the office examples. While we have a post on doing thinking strategically without leaving the office , we don’t have anything on how the physical surroundings of an office can boost strategic thinking.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We have released a host of eBooks on strategic planning exercises and ideas to increase collaboration, creative thinking, alignment, and successful implementation. Results – Creating Strategic Impact (Download). The questions also address branding, marketing, innovation, creativity, and implementation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

These retreats are not merely a change of scenery but a strategic move to foster innovation and alignment among the top decision-makers of your company. The value of such gatherings lies in their capacity to refresh perspectives, encourage strategic thinking, and address complex challenges without the distractions of the office environment.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 5, 2017

One of the most popular Brainzooming blog posts the past few years is rich in strategic thinking tools. It features more than 200 strategic thinking questions we’ve gathered, envisioned, and created going back to The Brainzooming Group origins as a corporate strategic planning department. Branding and Marketing.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

The conventional wisdom is you give away “what” you do as part of content marketing, but not “how” you do what you do. We, however, routinely share how we do things via our methodology, tools, and learnings from Brainzooming strategic thinking workshops. Creative Thinking Skills – 200+ Tips and Tools.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 4, 2016

A New Add to Our Extreme Creativity Strategic Thinking Exercises. Thinking about the statement further and the audacity of trying to do “the impossible with nothing” suggested this idea was the ultimate in extreme creativity. ” Why are we adding this strategic thinking question?

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Leapfrogging

MAY 8, 2024

Incorporating XQ into leadership development programs can catalyze the growth of high-potential individuals by equipping them with the tools to analyze their experiences, adapt to change, and exercise sound judgment in high-stakes scenarios. This application reinforces learning and helps embed leadership competencies at a fundamental level.

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BrainZooming

MAY 8, 2018

5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Engage Employees in Reorganization. I offered him five strategic thinking questions: When is our organization at its best in performing the variety of activities we do? Related posts 16 Strategic Thinking Exercises Ready to Go for You Right Now! Mike Brown.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This might involve rethinking traditional leadership hierarchies and fostering a more collaborative and inclusive approach to decision-making. It propels companies forward, allowing them to adapt in rapidly changing markets and to respond effectively to evolving customer needs.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 17, 2016

I’m at the Social Media Strategies Summit in Dallas today, delivering a two-hour workshop on developing a branded content marketing strategy. We recently conducted a dedicated content marketing strategy workshop for a client on this very topic. The initial exercise explored three phases of an audience member’s journey.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Objectives might include reassessing market position, exploring new partnerships, or setting performance targets. This phase lays the groundwork for a successful meeting where strategic goals can be effectively developed and refined. Facilitate a session where your team can collaboratively identify each of these elements.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 8, 2016

Last week, we presented a creative and strategic thinking workshop for a Brainzooming reader who leads the national sales division of a global industrial manufacturer. We integrated the Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop into their annual sales meeting. 13 Unexpected Benefits of a Strategic Thinking Workshop.

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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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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Checking our Brainzooming web analytics, “free strategic planning exercises” is a frequent search bringing people to the Brainzooming website. We share all kinds of free strategic planning exercises, such as these , these , and these. Those strategic planning exercises simply scratch the surface.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2018

5 Ways to Open Branding Strategy to Multiple Marketing Agencies. Here are five things we do to bring other marketing agencies in early to set them up for implementation success: Invite the partner organizations into all the planning activities for developing the branding strategy. Photo via Shutterstock.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

An internal consultant at a healthcare company asked about ways to add value to many open-ended comments using a group strategic thinking exercise. Because a market researcher at her organizations facilitates the same exercise with their leadership team every year. Perform a ranking exercise.

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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. Conversely, if your team excels in operational details, encourage activities that stretch their strategic thinking.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Innovation in executive teams is not just about developing new products or services; it’s about fostering a culture of continuous improvement, strategic thinking, and adaptability. By leveraging experiential insights, executive teams are better positioned to anticipate market trends, customer needs, and potential disruptions.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

Articulating Your Strategic Innovation Direction in an Understandable Way. Strategic Thinking Questions to Identify What Matters for a Brand. Workplace Diversity – The Why, Who, and How of Strategic Thinking. Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 7, 2017

That was the question from two nonprofit executives tasked with planning market research to support a new marketing plan. Before diving into planning market research, I asked about old research they had. 14 Questions Before Planning Market Research. Examining Your Own Previous Market Research. That’s a Start!

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

The objective involved taking twenty-three tables of participants through innovation strategy exercises to identify disruptive concepts, craft strategies, document audience profiles, imagine ideas, develop market positions, and propose all the ideas in 9-second pitches. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Where Does Your Brand Live?

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BrainZooming

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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BrainZooming

MARCH 3, 2017

Yesterday, we identified the six types of strategic planning process activities we use to design a client’s strategic thinking workshop. To facilitate you going deeper into thinking about how these activities function within a strategic planning process workshop, here are articles in each of the six areas.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 27, 2018

To help them articulate the organization’s strategic direction , we used several branding exercises. These branding exercises focused on identifying: The organization’s strategic foundation. Future strategic aspirations. The pairing of brand attributes that best describes its market position.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

Download: FREE Innovation Strategic Thinking Fake Book. Are you making the best use of customer input and market insights to deliver innovation and growth? This new ebook features sixteen strategic thinking exercises to help you ideate, prioritize, and develop your best innovative growth ideas.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We use multiple ways to gather input to ensure that by the time we bring a bigger group together for an in-person visioning workshop we’ve fully exploited more efficient, lower-risk, lower-investment formats to engage participants and solicit input for strategic planning. 3 Ways Online Collaboration Works to Deliver Big Benefits.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 2, 2017

What types of strategic planning activities are in a strategic thinking workshop ? As we collaborate with a client to design strategic planning activities for a strategic thinking workshop , we explore various possibilities. 6 Potential Strategic Planning Activities for a Workshop.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

Chuck facilitated multiple engaging, high-energy strategic innovation sessions for us at Yellow Corporation. We started dabbling within our market planning team to help our internal clients generate new ideas, too. We’d do these sessions as part of strategic planning. We’d then turn to preparing a strategic plan.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2018

He has moved to a new role leading marketing for an organization shifting from the B2C to B2B market. They need a compelling brand position, messaging, and a content marketing strategy that grows their volume of interested prospects and leads to strong growth to satisfy the global company that just acquired the brand.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 10, 2018

Strategic Thinking Exercises – 8 Ideas for Brand Innovation. Strategic Thinking – What Kind of Perfection Are You Looking For? Strategic Thinking Lessons – Keeping Your Company Fresh. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media. Case Studies.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 6, 2016

Our content addresses collaborative ways to strategically engage employees in creating and delivering the best brand experience. The branding strategy workshop came about from talking to too many executives that think it’s okay to let employees in on branding changes at the same time (or even after) customers learn about them.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 27, 2015

The reason is that working from the incredible resource of strategic thinking exercises, creative thinking tools, and collaborative models The Brainzooming Group has created, what Brainzooming does can vary dramatically for each client engagement. The Long Answer – Strategy, Creativity, and Innovation.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Is your strategy team tired of the same old strategic thinking exercises ? Is your leadership team expressing its frustration with the inability to generate new insights about your brand’s strongest market opportunities? It offers fresh ideas for using one of the most common strategic thinking exercises.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2017

Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

That sentiment all revolves around our content marketing strategy. Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation. Brainzooming Has an Answer!

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