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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

This impact is evident across various facets of business, from operational efficiency and customer experience to product development and market analysis. It requires a shift in your strategic thinking, urging you to anticipate changes and react with precision.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

It seems ridiculous to help a company become better at strategic thinking and marketing without being allowed to tell them how to do it. While this constraint may seem (and actually be) ridiculous, it shaped how the Brainzooming method developed. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Here is a way you can turn a typical strategic thinking exercise into something new and fun that both adds variety to your strategy meeting AND could trigger some new ideas to get our strategy out of a rut! It highlights your organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It’s always a wonderful inspiration for strategic and creative thinking questions (plus it’s exciting that we have a current client among the companies recognized). 16 Creative Thinking Questions from the Most Innovative Companies. 16 Creative Thinking Questions from the Most Innovative Companies.

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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. The descriptions are purposely neither good nor bad; they simply represent ways an organization could pursue the strategy.

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BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

At the 2016 Brand Strategy Conference, Antonia Dean, Director – Marketing, Brand Development, & Strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies covered the strategic thinking ideas behind creating an entrepreneurial environment in a large company. Building the Team. Expect turnover in the team. Defining Success.

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BrainZooming

MAY 1, 2017

The authors report four characteristics that set top CEOs apart, According to the article, “roughly half the strong candidates had distinguished themselves in more than one of the four essential behaviors, while only 5% of the weak candidates had.”. 4 Critical Factors for Successful Executives in Creating Strategic Impact.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Looking for ways to spice up your organization’s strategic planning process before you lock into the same old strategy ideas shaped by your senior team’s conventional wisdom? Try asking surprising strategic planning questions to push your leadership team toward new thinking. What are our threats?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

From a day-to-day perspective in the corporate world, we didn’t necessarily use objective metrics about creative ideas. After talking with a friend, I think the percent of time you are told to pull back your creative ideas because they are too big and bold may be a good way to assess how your creativity is faring in an organization.

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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. Creative Thinking: Tesco Homeplus Virtual Subway Store.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We’re with a client today, delivering a strategic and creative thinking skills for sales workshop. We’re scheduled to have more than 120 of the client’s sales team members participate in an interactive, half-day Brainzooming workshop in the Chicago area. Structure and Creative Thinking Skills.

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CMOE

JULY 29, 2021

Unfortunately, not enough leaders are equipped with the right training or knowledge to effectively lead their team members through change; almost two-thirds of employers noted that a lack of change-management expertise was a problem during their recent initiatives. What Is Change Management in Leadership? Learn from failure.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2018

Vickie’s drive to strategize, revise, and improvise in the name of extreme creativity and productivity is as fierce and inspiring as ever, making her a natural choice for an interview on the Brainzooming blog. Now Streaming: Extreme Creativity and Vickie Howell. Photo: Harper Point Photography. But some things remain constant.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2018

“The more bad ideas the better. If you work really hard on coming up with bad ideas, sooner or later, some good ideas are going to slip through.” – Seth Godin (June 19, 2018). If innovation is lagging, purposefully use this concept to get your team thinking bigger while it throws off smaller, innovative benefits along the way. #2

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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

APRIL 21, 2017

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence offered an internal branding strategy take on the United Airlines woes, offering strategic thinking questions you can ask and answer to improve your brand’s resiliency and avoid brand crises. Here are three internal branding weak spots the United incident highlights.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Frustrations with boring strategy sessions are probably why so many people visit our website looking for creative ideas on fun strategic planning exercises. We’ve previously published some fun strategic planning exercises. Strategic Planning Exercises Can Be Fun. Looking for Ways to Develop a Successful.

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 10, 2020

We’re losing sight of the importance of soft skills–like communication, empathy, mindfulness, creativity, collaboration, and leadership. Most likely, the latter came out of school with more polished communication, teamwork, decision-making, problem-solving, and creative abilities. FOCUSING ON “SOFT SKILLS” PAYS OFF–LITERALLY.

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 10, 2020

We’re losing sight of the importance of soft skills–like communication, empathy, mindfulness, creativity, collaboration, and leadership. Most likely, the latter came out of school with more polished communication, teamwork, decision-making, problem-solving, and creative abilities. FOCUSING ON “SOFT SKILLS” PAYS OFF–LITERALLY.

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Underperforming Technical Team Study Leadership Policies 52

BrainZooming

APRIL 22, 2016

I debuted a presentation on “Results – Creating Strategic Impact,” our mini-book on employee engagement ideas to boost an organization’s strategic thinking. 10 Employee Engagement Ideas to Improve Strategic Results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

I reviewed all eighty-six pages to develop our change management strategy primer. A 13-Point Strategic Change Management Checklist. Strategic Thinking about What to Keep and What to Creatively Change. Why Change Is Hard – 3 Strategic Thinking Ideas for Making Change Easy. Don’t Overthink It?

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Here’s an alternative approach we use all the time during strategic conversations: listen for specific types of comments and organize them as you go (or after the fact) into strategic deliverables. For example, before a strategic planning workshop started the other day, an internal client leader held court with the project team.

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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?”. Whether you are just starting your strategy or think you are well down the path, you can use this eBook to: Engage your team. Stimulate fresh thinking.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

He’s developing a short list of potential candidates for a new market research initiative at his company. It was clear that the organization’s team had already decided that a request for proposal was the best way to determine which outside vendor will be the best market research partner. Stimulate fresh thinking.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Is it a good or bad career strategy if you do not have a job description ? Short of starting by developing a personal core purpose or branding statement, we suggested these three career straegy questions to balance aspirational activities and the “what has to get done” stuff that will not be as exciting.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 22, 2019

Team Dimensions Profile. The DISC model was created by physiological psychologist Dr. The Everything DISC Workplace Profile Assessment can help your staff better understand their priorities, strengths, and weaknesses. Team Dimensions Profile. Team Dimensions 2.0 The Big Five. StrengthsFinder (CliftonStrengths 2.0).

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Make Sure You Have the Right Team. The big first implementation strategy step is assembling the right team with the skills, experience, and perspectives to make a big initiative happen. They see the scenes and think about what happens and all the people that need to be in place. How will they benefit from it?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2019

Unless the people on the other side of the table feel they are on equal footing, though, it will likely take several reiterations for team members to trust this opening. Take Action: Want to make strides toward opening the way for your team to deliver bad or challenging news? What is your most compelling message?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 26, 2017

There are a number of team development and leadership skills mentioned that fit themes we talk about here. We wanted to highlight specific questions, recommendations, and challenges that seem particularly pertinent for leading strategically and innovatively in the year ahead. A leader should create strategy with a team.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Suppose you’re going into a meeting and taking over leadership of a team or initiative where those you will be leading have been involved and active previously. Develop a basic agenda for the meeting with the participants doing most of the talking, as you listen and summarize ideas. Solicit each participant’s ideas in advance.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

As you develop a point of view on where your brand is ripe for change, review the brand update strategy options list. Strategic Thinking Exercises: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis” features eleven ideas for adapting, stretching, and reinvigorating how you see your brand’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

Would it have a new product development or innovation process? Companies must focus on the future, and they are intensely interested in how the market is changing, what their customers will want, how technology is developing and what their competitors and partners are planning to do. Would that company invest in R&D?

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Boxes and Arrows

JULY 10, 2008

However, there still remains much to discuss about what makes a UX team dreamy. Part two will address whether a person has the right ‘hard’ skills and ‘soft’ qualities like communication style, creativity and leadership ability to fit your particular organizational context.

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