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6 Creative Innovation Exercises for Online Whiteboards

IdeaScale

In this article, we will highlight some of the main advantages of creative thinking and we’ll walk through some of our favorite creative thinking exercises that your team can do to both build team alignment and improve your creative process. . Advantages of Creative Thinking Exercises. Group Problem Solving.

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Improv for Business

Gregg Fraley

Most of the group were skeptical at the start. It’s gratifying to see over half the group admit they had a significant perspective shift on a thorny business challenge — in 20 minutes! Improv schools like Second City and IO Theater in Chicago lead executive or team workshops, and their focus is on team building.

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The 10 Commandments of Effective Brainstorming

Gregg Fraley

Remember, half of any group is likely to be somewhat introverted. Design of the session should include introvert-friendly tools (see #9). Collaboration to solve problems is all about culture, incentives, team building, leadership, and more. They tune out if care isn’t taken to include them. .

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Innovation Training Under Utilized

Gregg Fraley

Specifically: No fluidity in free-associative divergent thinking necessary to innovate — people do not know how to think like innovators! Teams and work groups don’t know how to be collaborative. The research that says brainstorming doesn’t work studied groups with no training and no facilitator.

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Stimulating creativity in your organization

Be-novative

After numerous experiences (and by numerous we mean with over 70 organizations), we identified some common innovation barriers that most groups seem to face. E.g. a wall decorated by employees, interactive lunches or team building events, flexible project teams. Let’s go over one of them?—?it’s Induce collaboration.

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Innovative Innovation Meetings: Formats, Designs, and Examples

InnovationTraining.org

If you’re interested in running more effective, innovative meetings with your team, you’ve come to the right place. In this post, we’ll share some tips and hints centered around innovation and design thinking frameworks to help you deliver an engaging and impactful experience. Agile Stand-Up. marathon” = 24-48 hour event.

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Creating Digital Entrepreneurs 

etventure

Explain how today’s unpredictable marketplace drives the need for a much more agile and entrepreneurial mindset – based on an openness towards technological change, the use of methodologies such as design thinking, scrum for agile project management, a willingness to take risks, and a change in the company structure to a network organization.