Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Group (whom for?) Exercise can be easily adapted to different needs of various groups. Separate your group in small circles, up to 10 people per circle. Ask the Frog! Aim (what for?) To gather ideas and different perspectives on some question or problem. Material needed Envelope for each participant. Duration 10-20 minutes.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 22, 2017

Keeping with the eight theme, here are eight new questions from the Brainzooming R&D Lab to boost your creative thinking skills. There are two extreme creativity questions to stimulate breakthrough ideas from four perspectives: Aspiration, Authority, Disruption, and doing More. Aspirations.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Genein Letford, award-winning speaker, best-selling author and corporate trainer on creative thinking and Intercultural Creativity. Topics covered in this episode: 00:02:00 – What is Intercultural Creativity?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2017

Short Story: Look for specifics and things that people can actually do or perform to move creative thinking into action. How do you move from creative thinking into action? Two of the client’s senior staff members said this was a question they expected us to answer during the strategic thinking workshop.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 4, 2016

He said they learned over time about how to purposefully manage creative diversity most effectively. Originally, the goal was simply bringing a diverse group together from across the company. Solving the creative diversity puzzle with an eye toward ultimate implementation success led to better cultivating a creative environment.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

In previous workshops, a large group convened and re-imagined a manufacturing process to improve quality, while maintaining costs and production efficiency. They requested a follow-up innovation workshop to inspire bigger, further out thinking. All in a day’s work for The Brainzooming Group! A Remedy from our eBook, 321 GO!

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 9, 2016

What are your expectations from a creative thinking workshop? That is the first question I ask the audience at a Brainzooming creative thinking workshop. 7 Expectations from Creative Thinking Workshop Training. How do you motivate others – and yourself – to engage in greater creative thinking?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 22, 2016

Delivering a creative thinking workshop , I was eavesdropping on conversations at five tables full of attendees. One group was starting to use one of our creative thinking exercises. They should inspire, not limit thinking. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

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.

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BrainZooming

MAY 3, 2016

We were working with a client and sharing the value of our extreme creativity strategic exercises to boost creative thinking skills. Another reason to embrace extreme creativity questions is they provide a more beautiful, amazing mental landscape to inspire creative thinking skills.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

We’ve certainly covered the heck out of how bad bosses , toxic cultures , and negative comments can crush creative thinking and creativity. What you might not consider, however, is how an uber-positive boss that is TOO OVER THE TOP when communicating how great early stage ideas are ALSO CRUSHES creative thinking.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We’re with a client today, delivering a strategic and creative thinking skills for sales workshop. As an outgrowth of the workshop, here is a strategic and creative thinking skills compilation comprised of articles that support the Brainzooming workshop we’re delivering.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 27, 2017

How are you boosting your creative thinking skills in dramatic ways for 2017 and beyond? It features forty-five creativity and innovation experts! The Innovation and Creativity Summit 2017 is a virtual event running from this coming Sunday through the following Sunday. And it’s available online and FREE!

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 23, 2016

What if even having someone TELL YOU that there are no wrong ideas doesn’t free you up to start sharing ideas in a group? What if your fear of being wrong is so great that you can’t even start implementing creative ideas that are just for you for fear you’ll goof something up? Is there hope? Sure, there is hope.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I’ll be presenting on social media super models , followed by a VERY QUICK creative thinking exercises for sales presentation. The creative thinking exercises for sales content is a different take on both familiar and some new creative thinking topics. Force Yourself to Self-Evaluate.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 8, 2016

We integrated the Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop into their annual sales meeting. Our going-in plan for the five-hour workshop was to interactively share and practice Brainzooming creative thinking exercises the sales, marketing, and engineering team could use to expand customer opportunities in new ways.

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 1, 2021

The use of chance is a key element in lateral thinking. How can you deliberately introduce chance into your creative thinking? It works well with groups of 4 to 6 people and is excellent for forcing unusual combinations of ideas and settings. The Random Word method is very good.

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BrainZooming

MAY 4, 2016

Ever felt as if your main creative outlet just isn’t working anymore ? I’m WAY off my creative thinking game when it comes to putting pen to paper and fingers to keyboard. I have some ideas why this is the case, and have been trying to document the reasons my go-to creative outlet isn’t working right now.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

As a result, the pressure for inspiration and creative thinking was always dependent on me. What did I need to do to trigger creative thinking? At some point, God provided the grace to realize my creative inspiration was from outside, not inside. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 19, 2015

What’s a “pizza meeting,” and what does it have to do with creative thinking? Back in the Fortune 500 days, we facilitated so many strategic planning workshop sessions we gave up renting creativity-oriented offsite locations. As we were wrapping up, the next group came in for their lunch meeting. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 6, 2016

We’re developing a strategic thinking webinar for a client on cultivating and sustaining creativity among its salesforce. Since the webinar is with the organization’s sales leadership, the focus is on creative thinking skills they can and should be embracing to help their salespeople see opportunities in new ways.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 29, 2016

Creative Thinking Skills – Some Working, Some Not Working. Amid the odd times, it’s no surprise my creative thinking skills have varied widely the past few months. It’s also fair to share what creative thinking skills HAVEN’T been working lately: Trying to write on the iPad.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Today’s creative thinking post is all about music. That’s why these music videos are the centerpiece of today’s creative thinking post. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. While I don’t write about it all that often, I love music. The first is seasonal.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 19, 2022

Many innovation tools and ways of thinking are scalable to a specific need and are reasonably user friendly, and often generate a tremendous amount of value for a small investment. I think these tools work exceptionally well, but they are often grouped with other "innovation" tools and seem risky.

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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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HYPE Innovation

JUNE 4, 2018

The extreme conditions in which they had to work to repair it required rapid creative thinking on the part of a large group of people on the ground and aboard the ship itself.

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Michael Michalko

MAY 14, 2022

In the same way, if we start a brainstorming session cold with a serious, uptight facilitator throwing out questions and problems to a stiff, conservative group, the chances of producing healthy ideas is minimal. Following are tips on how to loosen up the group to energize their creative thinking. Chastity belt.

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

Creative Corner Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. Stock the area with books, videos on creativity, as well as learning games and such toys as beanbags and modeling clay. Let’s Do Lunch Encourage weekly lunch-time meeting of three to five employees to engage in creative thinking.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 11, 2015

We haven’t tackled that topic previously, so the first creative thinking move was sketching out a matrix comparing the degree someone is able to express a personal creative version versus how much they are getting paid for it. 5 Ideas for How to Make Money from Your Passion and Creativity.

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

Creative Corner Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. Stock the area with books, videos on creativity, as well as learning games and such toys as beanbags and modeling clay. Let’s Do Lunch Encourage weekly lunch-time meeting of three to five employees to engage in creative thinking.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

We can be proactive by asking these two generative questions: What if the true potential of AI lies in embracing its ability to augment human creativity and aid innovation, especially in enhancing creative problem solving, at all levels of civil society, instead of avoiding it?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Start with a clear opening session that sets expectations and objectives, followed by a mix of breakout groups, workshops, and plenary sessions. Let’s explore how you can create an environment conducive to collaboration and strategic thinking. It’s beneficial to create a checklist to manage these details effectively.

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Idea to Value

MAY 27, 2022

Well, fortunately over the past few decades there has been a lot of research into whether creativity is genetic, whether it is heritable, or whether it is more to do with our surroundings and development. The TPH1 gene related to serotonin (another neurotransmitter) might also be involved in creative thinking. Twin studies.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

What strategic thinking skills are important in helping find agreement for action amid a big, unstructured conversation? The call was an opportunity for board members to react and share perspectives for the first time as a group about a critical business topic. 5 Strategic Thinking Skills to Lead Groups to Action.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Innovation Encouraging creative thinking and problem-solving as a group. In these presentations, speakers may present case studies of successful innovative teams, discuss barriers to innovation and how to overcome them, and offer techniques to stimulate creative thinking and problem-solving within a team.

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Innovation in Practice

JANUARY 11, 2021

As leaders, we need to be more aggressive, take more risks, and challenge ourselves to think bigger. But does this apply to creative thinking as well? . Can you really improve your creative thinking by just thinking big? . They took 141 undergraduate students and randomly assigned them into two groups.

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Innovation in Practice

JANUARY 11, 2021

As leaders, we need to be more aggressive, take more risks, and challenge ourselves to think bigger. But does this apply to creative thinking as well? . Can you really improve your creative thinking by just thinking big? . They took 141 undergraduate students and randomly assigned them into two groups.

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