BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

I was talking with someone who was wondering aloud about how to boost the creative thinking skills of a group made up primarily of fact- and logic-driven individuals. We don’t deal with it more frequently because we consciously push in advance for diverse groups to engage in creative thinking and innovation workshops.

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Acuvate

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

One of the biggest reasons concerning millennials’ attrition is their lack of engagement in the workplace. According to research by Gallup , only 29% of millennials are engaged in the workplace, indicating that only three in 10 are emotionally and behaviorally connected to their job and organisation. Create a culture of innovation.

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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. You can download your copies by clicking on the titles or the covers of the eBooks below. Results – Creating Strategic Impact (Download).

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

Creative Thinking – The Math of Brainstorming and New Ideas. #3 3 Meaningfully Engages and Involves Employees. 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto. 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto. 5 Employee Engagement Ideas When Turnover Is High.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 27, 2016

Last Friday’s Gas Can Creative Conference sponsored by AAF-KC (American Advertising Federation – Kansas City) was a half-empty gas can, at best. 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.

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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. 7 Expectations from Creative Thinking Workshop Training. What’s the life cycle of creative ideas?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis. Whether you are just starting your strategy or think you are well down the path, you can use this eBook to: Engage your team. We can suggest more ways to dial in these strategic thinking questions for your organization’s specific opportunities and challenges.

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BrainZooming

JULY 12, 2016

Reviewing the innovation strategy challenges business executives identified when downloading Brainzooming eBooks , they frequently mention gaining “buy-in” for significant change initiatives. Here are five keys we’ve found for successfully engaging employees in innovation strategy. That’s no surprise. Ask me to participate.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The x-axis labels along the poster’s top featured three specific opportunities to deliver the attributes: at the initial engagement with internal clients, throughout ongoing work, and as a project wraps up. Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Extreme Creativity. Branding and Marketing.

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BrainZooming

JULY 24, 2017

Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Engage employees and customers with powerful questions to uncover great breakthrough ideas and innovative strategies that deliver results! This Brainzooming strategy eBook features links to 600 proven questions for: Developing Strategy. Innovation.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2016

It may be an old and tired story, but it still illustrates an important point about engagement and the willingness (or unwillingness) of employees to go all in with a new business initiative. The thing is, unsuccessful employee engagement strategies are not an employee problem. – Mike Brown. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JULY 17, 2018

This eBook has become a go-to guide for thousands of executives globally to explore fun strategic planning ideas. Related posts Strategic Thinking Exercise – Use a SWOT Analysis Nobody Expects Creative Ideas – 5 Authors’ Perspectives for Defeating “Enemies of Invention” 80 Fun Strategic Planning Activities and Ideas!

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BrainZooming

MAY 1, 2017

The four characteristics relate to quick decision making, engaging employees, anticipating forward-looking change, and delivering consistent performance. Engaging Employees. The Brainzooming Results eBook . Employee Engagement Strategies – Pigs, Chickens, and What Great Leaders Do. Prioritizing with Pain.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis. Whether you are just starting your strategy or think you are well down the path, you can use this eBook to: Engage your team. New eBook: 11 Ways to Reimagine the SWOT Analysis Try Nook and Cranny Strategic Thinking Exercises for a Huge Impact!

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Engage employees and customers with powerful questions to uncover great breakthrough ideas and innovative strategies that deliver results! This Brainzooming strategy eBook features links to 600 proven questions for: Developing Strategy. Innovation.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 11, 2016

I mentioned that in creativity presentations, I teach people to draw by using letters or numbers – things they know how to use – to uncover their creativity. When I texted a picture of the drawings, a friend wondered how Harry’s drawings would become creativity lessons for a blog post. More Creativity Lessons Ahead?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 26, 2018

Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Engage employees and customers with powerful questions to uncover great breakthrough ideas and innovative strategies that deliver results! This Brainzooming strategy eBook features links to 600 proven questions for: Developing Strategy. Innovation.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 12, 2017

” We assigned four roles to shape the customer experience strategy thinking: The Minister of Scare the Crap Out of Us Possibilities (for bursts of extreme creativity ). Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Extreme Creativity. ” “What would it look like if we also _?”

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BrainZooming

JULY 18, 2017

In the FREE eBook, Fast Forward, we highlight ideas, tips, and checklists you can quickly use for implementation success: 10 ways to simplify and strengthen the language you use to communicate strategic priorities. 9 ideas for introducing your strategic plan with style and impact to engage your organization.

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Stephen Shapiro

JUNE 8, 2023

Once I had a solid draft, I engaged ten beta readers using the helpthisbook (dot com) software. It spits out both the ebook and print versions. In about a month, I will work with my publisher to do more rounds of edits, a creative interior layout, a new cover, a new subtitle, and more. I received over 350 reactions in total.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2018

An executive responsible for strategy planning who was downloading our eBook on 11 Fun Strategic Planning Ideas posed an important question: How can you successfully identify and try new ways to get internal groups working together on strategic planning? ” Enjoy this article? Subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 20, 2017

Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Engage employees and customers with powerful questions to uncover great breakthrough ideas and innovative strategies that deliver results! And for that, I am very thankful! – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 16, 2018

Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Engage employees and customers with powerful questions to uncover great breakthrough ideas and innovative strategies that deliver results! This Brainzooming strategy eBook features links to 600 proven questions for: Developing Strategy. Innovation.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Engage employees and customers with powerful questions to uncover great breakthrough ideas and innovative strategies that deliver results! This Brainzooming strategy eBook features links to 600 proven questions for: Developing Strategy. Innovation.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

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. They billed high-dollar hours like crazy, turning a single strategic planning initiative into a seven-figure annual engagement. The Brainzooming strategic planning process was the result.

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BrainZooming

JULY 16, 2018

Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Engage employees and customers with powerful questions to uncover great breakthrough ideas and innovative strategies that deliver results! This Brainzooming strategy eBook features links to 600 proven questions for: Developing Strategy. Innovation.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

From the start, we have emphasized making strategic planning simple, engaging, and fun. They now include: A variety of free eBooks. The Idea Magnets book on creative leadership. Because when you allow people to positively shape the organization’s strategy and results, they’re empowered.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

A friend recently told me a story about her friend whose grandmother, after engaging with Facebook, said the most wonderful thing. Whatever it is, there are indeed inspirations behind the creative clicks that just pop up on my Facebook page that influence my work everyday. Creative Thinking Turns a Problem into a Solution.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 2, 2017

Iterating – Using specific creative and strategic thinking exercises in a sequence to help the group generate many possibilities and ideas. Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. This Brainzooming strategy eBook features links to 600 proven questions for: Developing Strategy. Innovation.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 10, 2018

As with lots of innovation questions, my quick response was we have an eBook for that. Resources are a common barrier to innovation, download the Brainzooming innovation eBook, 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 28, 2015

It is one of the best ways to get creative. Here are some Creative Clicks that may help. Remember to click on the headlines for these creative clicks to link to the articles. I become so engaged in reciting the poem, mindful of both the rhythm and meaning of the words, that I let go of all other thoughts.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Engage employees and customers with powerful questions to uncover great breakthrough ideas and innovative strategies that deliver results! This Brainzooming strategy eBook features links to 600 proven questions for: Developing Strategy. Innovation.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 28, 2017

In place of only recycling ideas, try these nine strategic thinking questions and creative thinking paths. Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Engage employees and customers with powerful questions to uncover great breakthrough ideas and innovative strategies that deliver results!

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

We routinely ask those of you downloading Brainzooming strategy and innovation eBooks to share – if you are willing – the opportunities and challenges you are facing at the time. “Buy in from staff on the new vision and the required change” 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2017

Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Engage employees and customers with powerful questions to uncover great breakthrough ideas and innovative strategies that deliver results! This Brainzooming strategy eBook features links to 600 proven questions for: Developing Strategy. Innovation.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

A Strategic Creative Brief – 4 Benefits for Your Communications Efforts . Download the Brainzooming eBook on social-first content strategy. Find engaging topics your brand can credibly address via social-first content. Making a List and Checking It Twice . Sharing Social-First Stories. Maximizing Brand Popularity.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 12, 2017

Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Engage employees and customers with powerful strategic thinking questions to uncover great breakthrough ideas and innovative strategies that deliver results! This Brainzooming strategy eBook features links to 600 proven questions for: Developing Strategy.

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