Idea Champions

MARCH 31, 2021

Enter The Year of Living Creatively -- a highly engaging online antidote for creative derailment -- a GPS for possibility, a greenhouse for greatness, and a chiropractic adjustment for the often mysterious creative process. It's not a training. It's not a class. It's not a workshop. Well, then, what is it?

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Idea to Value

JULY 19, 2017

Creativity is the process of making something unique and useful, and the successful outcome of this process is an innovation. My research focuses on the impact of broad environments, called climates, on individuals’ creativity development. A child’s creativity can be stifled by home and school climates.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Are you looking for training that will build systemic creativity within your organization? The training programs established by this partnership will reach worldwide and will address important matters such as: Problem-solving Decision-making Ongoing innovation. Developing Excellent Problem-Solving Skills.

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Innovation in Practice

JANUARY 2, 2017

Many people believe they’re not creative. So a natural question may be: why bother trying to be more creative? Well, there are lots of reasons - good reasons - to increase your creative skills. And it doesn’t matter where you are on the creativity scale. Taking the time to learn creativity is worth it!

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

It promotes disinhibition, reduces prejudice, encourages cross-disciplinary teamwork and co-creation, helps groups with very different profiles to speak the same language and achieves a level of engagement that drives participants to go one step further. At what stage in an innovation process can you bring in gamification?

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

Often it became the promise of having creative ways to solve solutions and work in harmony with all the rational thinking that dominates much of business thinking today, DT sounded so appealing, it quickly became “oh, we need some of that.”. Fun and engaging perhaps but it needed to be separated and contained.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 25, 2022

If you are looking for a simple, engaging way to spark powerful new ideas for your friends, colleagues, team, department, or clients, you have come to the right place. Mitchell Ditkoff , Co-Founder and President of Idea Champions -- a thought leader in the field of creative thinking, innovation, and the creative process.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Design thinking is a creative process utilizing personas for branding that will help us create and select the best idea from the input of your team. Click to view examples of our design thinking training or innovation workshops which can be applied for your name or identity challenge.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2014

Creativity started taking more effort than it had previously. My creative process at work started to go into overdrive. It was much easier to do collaborative creative brainstorming and get dozens of ideas out because my thought processes had become accustomed to it. The science behind creativity.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 16, 2020

As the course proceeds, readers are invited to engage with others to have critical conversations that can deepen our insights and broaden our reach and influence. It is a process that engages participants in a genuine exploration of their common needs and interests, through which they seek mutually beneficial outcomes.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 26, 2019

Here's what Idea Champions' clients have to say about the value they've received from engaging our brainstorm facilitation services. Extremely engaging and enlightening brainstorming sessions" - Karen Lazan, Marketing Director, Pfizer. The Idea Champions team brings a creative, energetic and fun approach to idea generation.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City.

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 30, 2015

In fact, if you go way back in history, many cultures believed that the most brilliant and creative minds were the result of a unique relation with a mythical being such as a muse or even a daemon. Thankfully we don’t live in ancient times; there are steps everyone can take to becoming a pre-active creative thinker that don’t involve muses.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2018

How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Encouraging creativity and experimentation among your team members can lead to breakthroughs that keep your company on the cutting edge. Establish ‘innovation labs’ or ‘hackathons’ to tackle challenges creatively. Continuous education and training in future-relevant skills.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Since 1987, Idea Champions has been designing and facilitating a wide range of brainstorming sessions, creative thinking trainings, and innovation workshops for more than 130 organizations in 11 different countries. During that time, we have worked with just about every industry on planet earth and every kind of mindset.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. Far too often, engaging and innovative meetings are rare and fall short of accomplishing their goals. The top innovative companies in the world know that hosting effective, engaging meetings makes all the difference.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

And so, in the spirit of full disclosure, here's the back story of The Year of Living Creatively -- a bold, new online service of mine with the potential to make a profound difference in your life. Our third client, AT&T, licensed our Get Out of the Box creative thinking training -- the first creative training AT&T had ever purchased.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. Highly creative people have a tendency to avoid "process" like the plague, turning a blind eye to anything that requires them to pay attention to an "organized approach". Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process. If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. Highly creative people have a tendency to avoid "process" like the plague, turning a blind eye to anything that requires them to pay attention to an "organized approach". Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The countless ways in which your company's "ideation process" routinely springs leaks. Highly creative people have a tendency to avoid "process" like the plague, turning a blind eye to anything that requires them to pay attention to an "organized approach". Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

The Colorado Department of Education recognized the need to promote community engagement to help advance education across its state. True culture change requires direct engagement. The event is much more than training. There are many toolkits and innovation processes out there. Don’t Throw It Over the Wall.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

The Colorado Department of Education recognized the need to promote community engagement to help advance education across its state. True culture change requires direct engagement. The event is much more than training. There are many toolkits and innovation processes out there. Don’t Throw It Over the Wall.

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CMOE

MARCH 31, 2023

When executed well, teamwork unites people and purpose, enhances trust and collaboration, and ultimately boosts productivity and elevates workforce engagement. Experts attribute this to the group’s ability to more effectively correct issues, think creatively, process information, and solve problems. What Is Teamwork?

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2017

When DT is applied to business or social issues it is by making creativity logical, you have its power of contribution, it can transform our innovative solutions. Design thinking is a highly creative problem-solving approach with a toolkit of methods but more a specific mindset where adapting is constant.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 27, 2020

Done the right way and in the absence of a pandemic, a proper mix of WFH and in-office can increase productivity AND creativity AND reduce stress levels. more joy); and the potential for deeper and more creative thinking (more productive). Managers are usually the greatest bottleneck. The shift is at the level of mindset and behavior.

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The Human Factor

MAY 27, 2020

A lot of businesses are now warming to the idea of utilising outsourcing fro areas such as administration and the creative processes. . Data Entry And Processing. For specially-trained data entry professionals , this kind of work can be efficiently sorted through sorted and analyze if much less time. .

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We only need to be creative and come up with original, new ideas 2% of the times on an average day, yet disruptive solutions are the key to any successful business in the 21stcentury. So, it’s more than high time to train our creative brains and expect both employees and students to come up with surprising ideas on any usual weekday.

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