BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

People ask me frequently about why we give away so much of what The Brainzooming Group does on our website. We, however, routinely share how we do things via our methodology, tools, and learnings from Brainzooming strategic thinking workshops. Why Do We Give Away So Many Strategic Thinking Exercises?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

The tricky balance was articulating an initial direction the group couldn’t derail while providing room for them to contribute ideas and time to make the event successful. 9 Creative Thinking Skills to Turn Talk into Strategy. There may also be equally important creative thinking skills not included on the list.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2018

For the closing song, the group played their version of Chuck Berry’s Roll Over, Beethoven. It’s like the secret to creative success for everyone ! Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Creative Thinking – 7 Keys to How “Idea Magnets” Boost Creativity.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future. By removing distractions and dedicating time solely to strategic thinking, you create an atmosphere where creativity and big-picture thinking can thrive.

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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. The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions (Download). The questions also address branding, marketing, innovation, creativity, and implementation.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2018

Perhaps the most important way to boost an audience’s energy level is number thirty: we make every attempt to design any Brainzooming workshop to re-energize the group throughout the time together. Be very silent (uncomfortably silent) until the audience notices and re-engages. Move to the Shrimp creative thinking exercise.

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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. It also helps players find new avenues to explore.

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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.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 5, 2018

An efficient AND effective innovation strategy adapts to a company’s business objectives, strategic priorities, and team. It doesn’t start with getting everyone together in a room for a creative thinking workshop and expecting innovative ideas to happen spontaneously. Engaging atypical stakeholders and experts for input.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 28, 2017

In place of only recycling ideas, try these nine strategic thinking questions and creative thinking paths. The formula is to ask a specific question, LISTEN for responses from others, and follow a related creating thinking direction to generate ideas more quickly: Ask: What’s been tried before?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

It was what I’d imagined, as a child, that college would be like: a big group of friendly people who are genuinely excited about learning and doing good in the world. You can employ the strategic thinking exercises in Accelerate to : Facilitate a collaborative approach to identifying innovation resources. What’s Next?

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

For as much as we share about the Brainzooming approach to strategy, creativity, and innovation, I still frequently get the question, “What is it The Brainzooming group does?”. Probably both intentionally and unintentionally, we are vague in describing a specific set of services and products The Brainzooming Group delivers.

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BrainZooming

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. Often, however, executives jump too quickly to flying everyone into one place for a big strategic planning meeting.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

We introduced the first Brainzooming strategic planning workshop resembling what we do today as The Brainzooming Group ten years ago, June 19-20, 2006. The First Brainzooming Strategic Planning Workshop. Chuck facilitated multiple engaging, high-energy strategic innovation sessions for us at Yellow Corporation.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Many people visit the Brainzooming website looking for ideas on making strategic planning fun. I’m a strategic planning guy, and even I don’t enjoy strategic planning the way it is typically handled for groups. Part of making strategic planning fun involves fun exercises , which we continue to create and share here.

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BrainZooming

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. After this strategic collaboration, a full-time strategic planner (i.e., FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Last week was diverse in the Brainzooming world, as we were engaged in serving clients across many different aspects of what we do. Thursday included working with a local non-profit to develop the strategic foundation for an important initiative, along with developing initial themes from the Carbondale community collaboration workshops.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 16, 2017

Short Story: You can take serious questions and wrap them in child-like situations to add fun and new thinking to a strategic planning process. One way to create greater engagement during a strategic planning process is through framing important questions in new ways. Jack and his Extreme Creativity Beans.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 15, 2015

While having a daily deadline has become less stimulating creatively over the years, I shudder to think of how much experience and the number of strategic thinking exercises that would have come and gone without any documentation if not for the Brainzooming blog.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Small unknown group collaboration”. Group work”. I was thinking I may not be as included since I’m not from or otherwise generally associated with (the community).”. Collaboration was so easy with the group that I was with.”. One of best group brainstorming sessions in a long time.”. The team interaction”.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2018

Business Impact: Executives typically think about current competitors and ways to outsmart them. How often do you engage your team in developing and implementing strategies to wear down your competitors’ resources to create new advantage for your brand? #3 Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

You know, this week doesn’t have to be as unproductive as last week, what with business meetings going nowhere along with wasting time, positive energy, and any hope of creativity. The thing is, there’s a different way to structure business meetings to help a group come together and collaborate in an innovative, productive way.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Aggregate and organize the ideas before the meeting to identify new, overarching insights unknown to the group. Jot down your initial ideas on the direction you think the meeting / initiative should go and introduce them at an opportune time. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2017

That is why wrapping strategy meetings in creative thinking exercises and the appropriate amount of fun and diversion is optimum. 80 Fun Strategic Planning Activities and Ideas! We’ve been facilitating fun strategic planning activities for years. ” Enjoy this article?

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

It was about fully-formed answers with no real support to help business and marketing managers do the strategic thinking to develop their strategies. The process was difficult, slow, and only worked because the consultant staffed the engagement with a bunch of MBAs that did the work for our people.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 21, 2016

I spent many late nights modifying each workshop format to change them enough to keep the participants (and me) engaged, mentally sharp, and creative. 9 Ways to Keep Strategic Planning Process Exercises Fresh Every Year. Mine the Brainzooming blog (and other sources) for new ideas on strategic planning exercises.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 28, 2019

Thanks to Val and Mitch, we're challenging our assumptions, asking the right questions, and using creative thinking techniques to bring our best ideas forward." - Natalie Giordano, Director, Purple Strategies "Idea Champions' three-day Conducting Genius training was engaging, fun and informative.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 27, 2016

While there were a few presentations and ideas to stimulate our creative thinking skills, there were far too few for an all-day event. 3 Creative Thinking Skills Ideas from Gas Can 2016. Today, here are three valuable creative thinking skills ideas no matter where your creative community is located.

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