Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Understanding Strategic Thinking for Executives Strategic thinking is a critical component of successful leadership, particularly for senior executives who chart the course of their organizations. With the right support and resources, you can overcome these hurdles and cultivate a more strategic approach to leadership.

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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

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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

As you plan your next conference or leadership program, understanding the value of these speakers is crucial. These speakers cover a range of topics, from the innovation process to the creation of a culture that nurtures creativity and collaboration. A keynote speaker will address ways to nurture these elements within your teams.

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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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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

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

MARCH 6, 2024

Instead, a more holistic approach to leadership intelligence is required—one that includes Experiential Intelligence (XQ). The Importance of Innovation in Executive Leadership Innovation is the lifeblood of any successful organization.

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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. By removing distractions and dedicating time solely to strategic thinking, you create an atmosphere where creativity and big-picture thinking can thrive.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The Role of Leadership in Strategy Development Leadership is at the heart of strategy development. You have the responsibility to foster an environment where strategic thinking flourishes. It’s about making informed choices and encouraging your team to think beyond the day-to-day tasks.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

By sharing their expertise and experiences, a keynote speaker can challenge conventional thinking, encourage creative solutions, and stimulate a culture of innovation. They should have a proven track record of success in driving innovation within organizations or contributing to the field of innovation through thought leadership.

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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. The main thing is to start with creativity- understand that creativity is the engine for innovation.

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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. Engage your leadership team and involve your employees to lead culture change for greater innovation & business growth.

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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Improved Problem-Solving Facilitates creative thinking and collaborative solutions to challenges. Brainstorming Methods Generate new ideas, foster creativity. It is beneficial to evaluate a speaker’s background, including: Years of experience in team-building and leadership roles Types of teams they have worked with (e.g.,

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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. Project Management Tips – 8 Signs a Creative Project Is Done. Improving Decision Making.

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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 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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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Today I am focusing on LinkedIn inspirations for creative clicks; I get inspiration there every day. Here are articles, postings, and people that inspire me from the largest online professional networking platform. As always with creative clicks, click on the headlines in these LinkedIn Inspirations to link to the original article.

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BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

Take on leadership and responsibility for decisions. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Creative Thinking: What Is the Right Size for a Brainstorming Group? You’ll learn ways to help your team: Move forward even amid uncertainty.

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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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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

That’s what McKinsey says in this article. Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. Yes, you can train people in creative thinking, Front-End-of-Innovation (FEI) frameworks, problem solving, and meeting facilitation.

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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. The imagination age is a theoretical period beyond the information age where creativity and imagination will become the primary creators of economic value.

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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 10, 2017

Creative Thinking Skills – 5 People Vital to Critical Thinking, Literally. “Helping train my team to be strategic thinkers and not just executors” Creative Thinking Skills for Sales – A Workshop Approach. Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy.

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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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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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Cris Beswick

MARCH 14, 2024

At its core, Innovation is about identifying and creatively solving problems to deliver new value. 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.

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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. HOW IT WORKS: 1.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 30, 2017

It employs technology, focused creative teams, new manufacturing processes, and communications to remove time and waste when creating post-sporting event apparel featuring the winners and exciting story lines. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Start Implementing Faster and Better!

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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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Planview

MAY 10, 2016

Your Creative Power. A friend of mine runs the innovation and creativity practice at a large, global firm. He turned me onto the book, Your Creative Power: How to Use Imagination to Brighten Life and to Get Ahead , by Alex Osborn. Excerpt on “employee suggestion systems” from Your Creative Power from 1948.

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Planview

MAY 10, 2016

Your Creative Power. A friend of mine runs the innovation and creativity practice at a large, global firm. He turned me onto the book, Your Creative Power: How to Use Imagination to Brighten Life and to Get Ahead , by Alex Osborn. Excerpt on “employee suggestion systems” from Your Creative Power from 1948.

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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. You and I have a 20-minute phone conversation about WHY you want to raise the bar for innovation and creativity in your organization.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JULY 20, 2017

Importance of Silence: One of the most important things for us, as entrepreneurs, is our ability to make connections that others miss, see opportunities that others are blind to and be creative. It is reflection that enables us to bring our best creative self. It is during this time that connections are made and creative ideas emerge.

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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. Support expansive thinking and create an open environment. Create distinct spaces for your creativity. She preferred nondescript hotel rooms, away from home, to get her creative juices flowing.

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