InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Advice for planning and facilitating successful corporate, executive, and leadership retreats. That’s where leadership retreats come in! This time can be spent training the leadership team’s natural abilities to support the organization and its goals. What is a leadership or executive retreat?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

If you’re looking at your organization and wondering where to start to foster a more innovative workplace culture, here are forty articles to go deeper into the topic. That doesn’t mean leadership should spell out everything. Workplace Diversity – The Why, Who, and How of Strategic Thinking. 4 Encourages Change.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Creative Thinking Skills. ” – Brené Brown on hurdles that stand between an idea and celebrated creativity. Leadership. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Last week’s Inbound conference was intense and productive. ” – Ed Catmull of Pixar.

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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. For instance, if collaboration is a core value, open office spaces that encourage teamwork can be a powerful symbol.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Their influence extends beyond mere presentations, playing an integral part in fostering team-building and collaboration among members. Effective speakers can identify and address underlying issues that may be hindering team cohesion, thereby setting the stage for more effective collaboration post-event.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

They requested a follow-up innovation workshop to inspire bigger, further out thinking. We brought two specific inspirations to the innovation workshop: extreme and analogy-based creative thinking exercises. Take on leadership and responsibility for decisions. A Remedy from our eBook, 321 GO!

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They should have a proven track record of success in driving innovation within organizations or contributing to the field of innovation through thought leadership. Thought Leadership Publications or contributions to the discourse on innovation. Professional Experience Hands-on experience with innovation in business settings.

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BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

Learning what participants in an upcoming big meeting know, think, and believe before they come together in a large group is one tactic to strengthen team collaboration. 14 Team Collaboration Benefits from Pre-Meeting Outreach. Gaining these team collaboration insights can come through various pre-meeting outreach formats.

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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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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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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. Diana Kander. Esther Gons. Karin Hurt. Robyn Bolton. Janet Sernack. Introduction. Twitter: johnsonwhitney.

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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

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. The question in each of these cases is how you use your leadership skills so you can “fake it until you make it?”. 8 Ways to Fake It Until You Make It.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Here are twenty-one articles organizing project management techniques we’ve been sharing with clients to help create needed changes in their organizations. Dealing with Difficult People – 16 Articles on Help and Support for Prickly People. Take on leadership and responsibility for decisions.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

shared in a recent article “Losing from day one: Why even successful transformations fall short” – Organisations have realized only 67 percent of the maximum financial benefits that their transformations could have achieved. Yet, according to research conducted over fifteen years by McKinsey & Co.,

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

According to Global Human Capital Trends 2015 pg 36, “Organizations that create a culture defined by meaningful work, deep employee engagement, job and organizational fit, and strong leadership are outperforming their peers and will likely beat their competition in attracting top talent.”. Employees who feel their voices are heard are 4.6x

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Are you making sure women are in leadership positions where they can voice things that need to be said that male leaders are unwilling to say? If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. And once they did, the men in the group jumped in to these powerful conversations. These questions are real.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 4, 2019

Where people will maximize the use of all three modalities, our heads, hearts and hands to fill the interpersonal and creative roles that will be hardest of all to mechanize. Contrasting with the information age where analysis and thinking have been the main activities. “An Shifting the leadership paradigm.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

That’s what McKinsey says in this article. Inappropriate meeting behavior that shuts down others, hosing collaborative work. Teams and work groups don’t know how to be collaborative. Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time.

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Phil McKinney

JULY 31, 2023

In the 21st Century, the leadership landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace. The need for change is more pertinent now than ever before, as traditional leadership models prove insufficient in addressing the complexities of our modern world. It is what some are calling collective leadership.

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BrainZooming

JULY 13, 2016

When it comes to whether an organization demonstrates ample creativity and new ideas, you have to place a load of responsibility on the leadership. How the leaders encourage and cultivate new ideas (or don’t) will affect the volume and richness of creativity throughout the organization. Leaders Getting in the Way of Creativity.

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BrainZooming

MAY 30, 2017

As you and your leadership team announce the new innovation strategy, your employees have questions. Instead, give your team creative thinking questions appropriately sized to the innovation you are seeking. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Who doesn’t love big ideas?

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Cris Beswick

MARCH 14, 2024

As I describe throughout my book, the tone set by senior leaders is critical when it comes to sparking and scaling creative thinking as innovation efforts flounder without the right vision and commitment from the top. They emphasise cross-functional collaboration and provide the space for quick iterative testing and experimentation.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 19, 2018

TOPICS INCLUDE: Culture of Innovation, Creative Thinking, Idea Generation, Brainstorm Facilitation, Storytelling, Leadership, Mindset, Teamwork & Collaboration, Meeting Mastery, Listening & Feedback, Problem Solving, and Employee Engagement. And it only requires 15 minutes per week. HOW IT WORKS: 1.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2017

TOPICS INCLUDE: Creative Thinking, Culture of Innovation, Brainstorm Facilitation, Storytelling, Leadership, Mindset, Motivation, Collaboration, Facilitation, Listening, Humor, and Change. And it only requires 15 minutes per week. HOW IT WORKS: 1. StrategicPlanning.jpg.

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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. Participants assess where they think the organization currently is and where they want it to be in the future on multiple “strategic dimensions.”

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Planview

MAY 10, 2016

Towards the end of the book, Osborn touches on the popularity of “employee suggestion systems,” the wooden box precursor to the practice of collaborative innovation for today’s Digital Age, which typically includes a virtual component. Building Strong Practice Leadership. Promoting the Practice of Collaborative Innovation.

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Planview

MAY 10, 2016

Towards the end of the book, Osborn touches on the popularity of “employee suggestion systems,” the wooden box precursor to the practice of collaborative innovation for today’s Digital Age, which typically includes a virtual component. Building Strong Practice Leadership. Promoting the Practice of Collaborative Innovation.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

TOPICS INCLUDE: Mindset, Culture of Innovation, Creative Thinking, Idea Generation, Brainstorm Facilitation, Storytelling, Leadership, Teamwork/Collaboration, Listening/Feedback, Problem Solving. And it only takes 15 minutes per week. HOW IT WORKS: 1.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 30, 2017

Across these questions, you’ll get a start thinking through how an agile strategy can push disruptive innovation in your industry. – via “Inside the Executive Suite” . If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Take on leadership and responsibility for decisions.

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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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hackerearth

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In this post, we’ll give you some irrefutable proof of leadership traits that can come from popular CXOs and a few “surprise” sources. She preferred nondescript hotel rooms, away from home, to get her creative juices flowing. Read about three levels of listening in this article.) Challenge the status quo.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Participants will work in small groups in an environment that encourages creative thinking and innovative brainstorming and prototyping. With planning engaging activities, a hackathon can yield more collaboration, interaction, and networking. Looking for more innovation and design thinking resources ?

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KindlingApp

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

As they work to develop strategic thinking about innovation program goals and aims, leadership often holds closed-door meetings where key stakeholders attempt to identify the problems and projects that they'll challenge their innovators to solve or advance. Crowdsource Your Crowdsourcing Goals. Optimize for Serendipity.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2016

If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible. 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results.

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