Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Consider linking to articles like developing strategic mindset in leaders for further reading. This can be facilitated through brainstorming sessions or innovation workshops. Reward Innovative Thinking: Incentivize your executives to think creatively by acknowledging and rewarding innovative ideas and solutions.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Consider linking to articles like developing strategic mindset in leaders for further reading. This can be facilitated through brainstorming sessions or innovation workshops. Reward Innovative Thinking: Incentivize your executives to think creatively by acknowledging and rewarding innovative ideas and solutions.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

9 BAD HABITS TO BREAK FOR BETTER IDEATION Time flies, seasons change, and before you know it, the annual barrage of articles trashing the validity of brainstorming is once again upon us. Why give readers tips on brainstorming only after spending eight paragraphs trying to discredit it? The primary reason?

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Michael Michalko

MARCH 23, 2017

One day he and I had a discussion about creative thinking and I brought up the principle of adaptation. They brainstormed by considering ways that animals, reptiles, insects, and birds attach themselves to plants and trees. • What ideas outside my field can I incorporate? What ideas inside my field can I incorporate?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

By discussing these practical steps, a keynote speaker can provide you with a blueprint for embedding innovation into your business operations, ensuring that your team not only understands the value of innovation but also how to effectively execute it. A keynote speaker will address ways to nurture these elements within your teams.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

To assist you in crafting a focused agenda for your offsite, you might find valuable guidance in how to design and run a strategic planning offsite. You may want to consult resources on how to design and run a strategic planning offsite to ensure you’re on the right track.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

A high XQ in executive teams equates to an in-depth understanding of how to apply knowledge in a variety of contexts, particularly in unpredictable environments. XQ is not merely about what we know, but how we apply that knowledge effectively. This atmosphere encourages risk-taking and innovation, essential for business growth.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Some of Michael’s creative-thinking techniques that were refined by his government and corporate practice were published in his best-seller Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity) , which the Wall Street Journal reported “will change the way you think.” multiple times. I was stunned!

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 13, 2015

In the past few years I have noticed a curious trend in the media -- one I can no longer ignore -- and that is the appearance of seriously derisive articles about brainstorming by self-declared pundits and free lance writers. What I'm guessing that brainstorming naysayers really mean is that bad brainstorming sessions don't work.

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BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

Depending on the nature of the pre-meeting outreach you conduct with participants, it can promote team collaboration and help: Get to know participants better and figure out how to best work with them. Gain a sense of what people already think. Better strategize how to introduce challenging points of view.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 30, 2021

We’ve researched worked with teams all over the world to build better innovative training sessions, brainstorms, workshops, meetings, and more. From hackathons to stand up meetings and everything in between, we understand that a more collaborative approach can make a massive difference in boosting efficiency, creativity, and effectiveness.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 15, 2016

So get creative individually. Get creative in a group. And remember that when you are working creatively with a group, be sure to make creative room for others! – Mike Brown. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog e mail updates.

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Michael Michalko

MARCH 3, 2017

BRAINSTORMING BOARD. Put up a bulletin board in a central area and encourage people to use it to brainstorm ideas. You could describe the sale situation on a colored card, post it on the brainstorming board and ask people to post their ideas and suggestions. CREATIVE CORNER. IDEA LOTTERY. LET’S DO LUNCH. STUPID IDEA WEEK.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Explore creative problem solving techniques, activities, and articles. One such approach is creative problem solving, a methodology focused on divergent thinking. One such approach is creative problem solving, a methodology focused on divergent thinking. What is Creative Problem Solving? Impossible!

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

That’s what McKinsey says in this article. 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. Training Accelerates Innovation.

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Michael Michalko

AUGUST 30, 2017

Michael Michalko is the author of the highly acclaimed Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative Thinking Techniques; Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius; ThinkPak: A Brainstorming Card Deck and Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In this blog, we look at the 5 common mistakes that derail the best-intentioned ideation sessions and how you can make sure yours stay on track and on point – and, most importantly, generate oodles of ideas. Check out other articles on how to set up your ideation sessions for success. You just need to trust the process.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In this blog, we look at the 5 common mistakes that derail the best-intentioned ideation sessions and how you can make sure yours stay on track and on point – and, most importantly, generate oodles of ideas. Check out other articles on how to set up your ideation sessions for success. You just need to trust the process.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When you are brainstorming for ideas and have a thought, the value of that thought depends upon how you interact with it. If you are an analytical thinker and automatically classify many of your thoughts as irrelevant or unrelated, you are crippling your potential for creative ideas and solutions. Can you create a new pillow?

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Frequently, when I write a story along the lines of how to fake it until you make it some folks will say you should never fake it. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Creative Thinking: What Is the Right Size for a Brainstorming Group?

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Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Say the word and I will produce a private page of curated content for your company -- more than 50 innovation-sparking articles and videos. Think of it as a customized, just-in time curriculum that will help each and every person in your organization become proactive innovators on the job -- five minutes (or less) at a time.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

Over the course of this three-article series, we’ve combined established business strategies with human-centered work philosophies to build a foundation for high-performing teams. Or, we may have small groups or teams write down workplace obstacles or concerns on paper, and have teams swap papers and brainstorm solutions.

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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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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 4, 2020

The highest-performing teams in today’s workplace don’t limit themselves to just what works in their own industry: they look further afield for inspiration, they know how to interpret and apply what they see, and they are not afraid of trying something new. In this series of posts, we’ll share our journey in doing just that.

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Michael Michalko

JUNE 1, 2017

What if the crippled man who invented the motorized cart had defined his problem as: “How to occupy my time while lying in bed?” ” rather than “How to get out of bed and move around the house?” With creative thinking, one generates as many alternative approaches as one can.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 26, 2021

We help organizations discover how to build innovation and design thinking strategies into their workplace environments, start and lead innovation teams, and keep up the process of innovating every day. This article share some basic tips to help your organization innovate through an important dynamic – teams.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 14, 2017

This is the core creative thinking question for our Shrimp exercise. This creative thinking question also helps them move beyond ideas they would typically self-censor in almost any situation. ” If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 27, 2020

Here are tips on which of three top videoconferencing apps is right for you, which WFH technology to buy and how to achieve peak WFH productivity. Just in time, there are now tips on how to avoid WFH burnout. If you prefer podcasts and the deeper thinking that they can offer, here are two good ones. If so, how so?

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

In the meantime, however, I would like to make use of an innovation technique I have mentioned in previous articles. For lack of a better term, I refer to this concept as innovation potpourri, which is the collection and amalgamation of disparate ideas and thoughts captured without a specific notion of how any of these ideas will be applied.

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Michael Michalko

AUGUST 12, 2018

Think about what it is you still don’t understand about the problem. Learn and use the creative thinking techniques creative geniuses have used throughout history. Give yourself an idea quota of 40 ideas when brainstorming. • How many of the ideas can you combine with each other? • Combine your ideas?

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