BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2017

Short Story: Look for specifics and things that people can actually do or perform to move creative thinking into action. How do you move from creative thinking into action? Two of the client’s senior staff members said this was a question they expected us to answer during the strategic thinking workshop.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In order to get your creative juices flowing it can be important to engage in creative thinking exercises and practice ways you can improve your innovation process. Advantages of Creative Thinking Exercises. Here are some of the advantages of using creative thinking exercises. Discovering New Ideas.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

Sometimes creative thinking challenges come from inside your own head. In many organizations, however, substantial creative thinking challenges come from leaders and cultures that may say they want new thinking, but seem to do everything they can to scuttle creativity. Mike Brown.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

No matter how hard or how long you think about a zipper, you will continue to see a zipper as an independent part of an independent reality and will continue to focus on the particulars of a zipper. Change Your Thinking Patterns. You can change your thinking patterns by focusing on the universal instead of the particular.

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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. How do you motivate others – and yourself – to engage in greater creative thinking?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Some of these benefits include: Enhanced Problem-Solving: Collaborative teams can approach problems from multiple angles, leading to more creative and effective solutions. Increased Agility: Teams that collaborate well can adapt more quickly to changes in the business environment, maintaining a competitive edge.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We’re with a client today, delivering a strategic and creative thinking skills for sales workshop. As an outgrowth of the workshop, here is a strategic and creative thinking skills compilation comprised of articles that support the Brainzooming workshop we’re delivering. Mike Brown.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Having a robust strategy helps you anticipate and respond to changes, whether they come from emerging technologies, evolving customer preferences, or competitive pressures. Dive deeper into this topic with our article on creating business strategy in a world of AI-driven rapid change.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 13, 2016

That conversation, and a related one on creative thinking and what is funny got me reflecting on a day in my life and the creative thinking and creative self-talk that goes on behind the scenes. As I started to jot down ideas from the day, it read like a bunch of creative thinking policies and non-policies.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Chuck has been an incredible influence on my career, especially as it comes to creative thinking skills. As someone said to me at one point, “You’ve changed your job into Chuck’s job.”. Chuck was the first person I heard deliver an in-depth presentation on creative thinking skills. That was definitely true.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

I recorded a video for the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) that ties into my presentation at their conference on creative thinking skills and “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation.”. The answer to the question is to change the nature of the conversations you are having when you are working on the business.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I’ll be presenting on social media super models , followed by a VERY QUICK creative thinking exercises for sales presentation. The creative thinking exercises for sales content is a different take on both familiar and some new creative thinking topics. Can You Change Your Look?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Creative Thinking Skills. ” – Brené Brown on hurdles that stand between an idea and celebrated creativity. “We didn’t like the media landscape, so we changed it. . ” – Brené Brown on hurdles that stand between an idea and celebrated creativity. ” Growth.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2017

Adrian has incredible creative thinking skills. How was I so sure about his creative thinking skills ? He applied his creative thinking skills and came up with a solution that was pure extreme creativity. Are you facing organizational innovation barriers related to: The fear of change ?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 6, 2016

We’re developing a strategic thinking webinar for a client on cultivating and sustaining creativity among its salesforce. Since the webinar is with the organization’s sales leadership, the focus is on creative thinking skills they can and should be embracing to help their salespeople see opportunities in new ways.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Based on all The Brainzooming Group experience in helping clients generate new ideas and innovative strategies, diversity is vital to successful creative thinking activities. For example, at one of our client creative thinking workshops there wasn’t any of diversity to spare. Diversity is a terrible thing to waste.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

A recent McKinsey Leading Off – Essentials for leaders and those they lead email newsletter, referred to an article “The organization of the future: Enabled by gen AI, driven by people” which stated that digitization, automation, and AI will reshape whole industries and every enterprise.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 8, 2016

We integrated the Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop into their annual sales meeting. Our going-in plan for the five-hour workshop was to interactively share and practice Brainzooming creative thinking exercises the sales, marketing, and engineering team could use to expand customer opportunities in new ways.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

As a result, the pressure for inspiration and creative thinking was always dependent on me. What did I need to do to trigger creative thinking? At some point, God provided the grace to realize my creative inspiration was from outside, not inside. God provides all the needed creative inspiration.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 23, 2016

What if your fear of being wrong is so great that you can’t even start implementing creative ideas that are just for you for fear you’ll goof something up? Typically, the creative thinking exercises we teach and use are a huge source of hope to get past fears about self-judged “bad” ideas. Is there hope? Sure, there is hope.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

To delve further into the developmental aspects of organizational culture and how it can be shaped, explore our article on develop executive leadership to drive organizational culture change. Furthermore, in the rapidly changing business landscape, the agility and resilience provided by a strong culture are invaluable.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Improved Problem-Solving Facilitates creative thinking and collaborative solutions to challenges. Innovation, willingness to embrace change. Ability to Drive Positive Change and Growth The ultimate goal of a team-building keynote is to instigate positive change and growth within the team.

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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. Alas, the rumble of traffic outdoors, clattering in the machine shop, or even the scientists’ footsteps shook the equipment enough to change the pressure of the connecting wires on the carbon, thus altering its resistance.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Role of a Keynote Speaker in Corporate Innovation A keynote speaker can be a powerful catalyst in corporate settings, sparking innovation and inspiring change within an organization. A focus on innovation helps companies to adapt to rapidly changing markets, embrace new technologies, and stay ahead of the competition.

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Innovators Alliance

MARCH 22, 2024

While researching organizational systems for my doctoral thesis, I developed a method of assessing an organization’s mindset to quantify and improve its ability to grow through innovation and adaptive change. Given that people are the lifeblood of change and innovation, emotional commitment is required to achieve positive results.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 9, 2024

The service we provide is the distillation of what we've learned, since 1987, designing and facilitating more 1,500 creative thinking sessions for 130 organizations in 11 countries. Bottom line, we know how to open the floodgates of creativity. They also see how simple it can be to get out the box with the right kind of nudge.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

These speakers cover a range of topics, from the innovation process to the creation of a culture that nurtures creativity and collaboration. They discuss the challenges of implementing innovation in business and the role leadership plays in driving change. Design Thinking Design thinking is not just for designers.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

As business leaders, it’s essential to understand and integrate this component to drive change and encourage a thriving environment of creativity and risk-taking. Adaptability : An ability to pivot and respond to changing market conditions and business needs.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

They serve as a catalyst for change, a forum for problem-solving, and a way to foster team unity. Engaging in this practice equips you with a clearer understanding of where your organization stands and where it needs to go, helping to navigate through competitive and rapidly changing markets.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Implementing innovation in organizations reluctant to embrace the changes needed to survive and grow requires what we’ve come to call “strategic project management.” Here are twenty-one articles organizing project management techniques we’ve been sharing with clients to help create needed changes in their organizations.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 11, 2015

We haven’t tackled that topic previously, so the first creative thinking move was sketching out a matrix comparing the degree someone is able to express a personal creative version versus how much they are getting paid for it. 5 Ideas for How to Make Money from Your Passion and Creativity. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 27, 2018

So, if you are on your own and need help to generate a lot of innovative ideas in a hurry , it’s a simple creative thinking formula: A magazine with lots of pictures and headlines +. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Sticky notes +. A few minutes =.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

In 2016, I wrote the article What is innovation? ” Since then, the article went viral, with thousands of shares and hundreds of thousands of views. This meant the original article only included male perspectives. What simple thing can a company do to change their conversation / perspective about innovation?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

These retreats are not merely a change of scenery but a strategic move to foster innovation and alignment among the top decision-makers of your company. The value of such gatherings lies in their capacity to refresh perspectives, encourage strategic thinking, and address complex challenges without the distractions of the office environment.

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BrainZooming

MAY 1, 2017

Emma Gibson forwarded an article from Harvard Business Review addressing four factors that distinguish top chief executive performers in creating strategic impact. The four characteristics relate to quick decision making, engaging employees, anticipating forward-looking change, and delivering consistent performance.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

Creative Thinking: Tesco Homeplus Virtual Subway Store. Creating Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options. Disrupting Thinking. Creative Thinking – 12 Triggers for Finding Strategic Connections. Strategic Thinking: Short-Term Weakness, Long-Term Strength.

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ImagineNation

MAY 30, 2023

Requiring us to make sense of and navigate the paradoxical nature of innovation leadership, by developing multiple perspectives to re-think how to respond positively and creatively to the high levels of tension and range of massive disruptions we collectively face in our current high-speed, constantly changing, global operating environments.

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