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Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas

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While this constraint may seem (and actually be) ridiculous, it shaped how the Brainzooming method developed. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas. With off-target ideas, we would say, “That’s great,” and suggest other strategic thinking exercises to re-orient them toward a better direction.

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Strategic Thinking Exercise – A SWOT Analysis to Push Thinking

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It received enough attention that we decided to share an additional strategic thinking exercise that puts a twist on the typical SWOT analysis. In this case, the letters in the SWOT analysis name still stand for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Creating engagement with our employees ? We can help!

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Strategic Thinking Exercise – Use a New SWOT Nobody Expects

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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. Outrageous. Threatening.

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Strategic Thinking Exercise – An Alternative Vision Statement Approach

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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. to 2 times longer.

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5 Employee Engagement Ideas When Turnover Is High

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I debuted a presentation on “Results – Creating Strategic Impact,” our mini-book on employee engagement ideas to boost an organization’s strategic thinking. The question was whether it makes sense to try and engage employees in the ways I discussed when they aren’t likely to be around for very long. The answer was easy: Yes!

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Creative Thinking Activities – 3 Questions to Stop Squandering Diversity

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To demonstrate the wasted potential and importance of diversity to creative thinking activities, midway through the creative thinking workshop, we used a Brainzooming exercise to identify individuals with the most and least experience with the company. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. – Mike Brown.

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Leadership Training – Walmart Hopes for Big Impact

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Walmart, a brand often immersed in debates about poor employee treatment, is piloting new training for both front-line employees and in-store managers. Department managers are receiving training, greater authority, and latitude to manage their department teams. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results.