BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

Listening to the discussion among the team leader and other members of the organization driving the event, I grabbed paper, a Sharpie, and started organizing their aspirational comments into a presentation for the next day’s meeting. 9 Creative Thinking Skills to Turn Talk into Strategy. – Mike Brown.

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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

This synergy is particularly crucial when navigating the challenges presented by disruptive technologies, artificial intelligence, and shifting market demands. Higher Employee Engagement and Satisfaction: A collaborative atmosphere can lead to higher levels of engagement, as team members feel valued and part of the company’s success.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from daily operations, you and your team can focus on long-term goals, engage in deep discussions, and forge stronger bonds. 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

APRIL 22, 2016

I debuted a presentation on “Results – Creating Strategic Impact,” our mini-book on employee engagement ideas to boost an organization’s strategic thinking. One attendee stuck around after the “Results” presentation to ask about a situation his son is facing. 5 Employee Engagement Ideas for High-Turnover Employees.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2018

Seeing the question about how to boost an audience’s energy level ahead of time (and knowing they’ll want specifics), prompted this list of thirty things I’ve done during my career of designing and delivering interactive presentations and workshops. Be very silent (uncomfortably silent) until the audience notices and re-engages.

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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. Being empathic, compassionate, and appreciative, and engaging in self-care activities and well-being practices.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

For more insights into building high-performance leadership teams through psychological safety and experiential intelligence, explore our in-depth article on high performance leadership teams through psychological safety & experiential intelligence. This atmosphere encourages risk-taking and innovation, essential for business growth.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 26, 2022

This article is adapted from his recent book, What Matters in This Moment: Leading Groups Through Uncertain Times. These processes can each guide us, depending upon our goals, knowledge, and values surrounding stakeholder engagement. This article has offered a few places to start I hope you find useful. About the Author.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 30, 2016

I mentioned upcoming business collaboration opportunities for Brainzooming yesterday , including co-presentations, creating content, and developing new workshop and training offerings. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

“Buy in from staff on the new vision and the required change” 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto. Engaging Employees in High Turnover Situations. Creative Thinking Skills – 5 People Vital to Critical Thinking, Literally. 5 Keys to Streamlining Strategic Planning.

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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. If we don’t have clarity on our present state (i.e., Diana Kander. Esther Gons. Karin Hurt.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Allan Snyder director of Centre for the Mind, Australian National University, Canberra, and University of Sydney “Creativity demands that you leave your comfort zone, that you continually challenge yourself and be prepared to confront conventional wisdom. Especially, engage in that for which you have not been schooled.”

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

Speakers and presenters included professionals from around the globe; educators, actors, consultants, special-effects supervisors, directors, musicians, and others. Topics ranged from entrepreneurship to leading creative teams, from being cognizant of one’s news sources and information suppliers to the factors that make up a creative mindset.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Designing strategic thinking questions leading to engaging conversation among familiar and new participants. Not sharing all the upfront homework in long presentations (which are almost always NOT FUN), but instead designing the entire strategic planning workshop to reflect the homework’s findings. – Mike Brown.

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Michael Michalko

MARCH 3, 2017

CREATIVE CORNER. Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. Stock the area with books, videos on creativity, as well as learning games and such toys as beanbags and modeling clay. Encourage weekly lunch-time meeting of three to five employees to engage in creative thinking.

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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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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. It is a unique event with clear dynamics and rules of engagement. That’s why it’s important to accept every idea presented at face value.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 15, 2015

If we’re headed into a client session or a meeting and need a few creative thinking questions, I visit the blog and grab suitable questions from one of our compilation posts. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 7, 2017

We design and facilitate conferences that make a big difference -- memorable events that are totally engaging, enjoyable, and radically increase the odds of your conference outcomes sustaining over time. But there will also be too many people just taking up space, assuming their role is to be spoon fed by presenters. Not a good idea.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In this article, we will walk through what a mind map is while discussing some of the important ways it fuels innovation. If you want to learn more about collaboration and innovation, check out our article on design thinking. Enables Tiered Thinking. Includes Larger Context.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. Far too often, engaging and innovative meetings are rare and fall short of accomplishing their goals. The top innovative companies in the world know that hosting effective, engaging meetings makes all the difference.

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Planview

MAY 10, 2016

In this article, I share excerpts that touch on employee suggestion systems and compare where matters stand today. When creative thinking is thus focused, the quality as well as the quantity of suggestions is likely to increase. Excerpt on “employee suggestion systems” from Your Creative Power from 1948.

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Planview

MAY 10, 2016

In this article, I share excerpts that touch on employee suggestion systems and compare where matters stand today. When creative thinking is thus focused, the quality as well as the quantity of suggestions is likely to increase. Excerpt on “employee suggestion systems” from Your Creative Power from 1948.

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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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Phil McKinney

JULY 31, 2023

Moreover, they understand that leading change is not about imposing it from the top but about engaging the organization in the process. They foster an environment encouraging creative thinking and problem-solving, resulting in disruptive and impactful solutions.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 27, 2020

more joy); and the potential for deeper and more creative thinking (more productive). Let’s shift now to the primary focus of this article. Document preparation : Development of presentation materials for informing or discussing analysis and recommendations. Managers are usually the greatest bottleneck. If so, how so?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 27, 2016

Last Friday’s Gas Can Creative Conference sponsored by AAF-KC (American Advertising Federation – Kansas City) was a half-empty gas can, at best. While there were a few presentations and ideas to stimulate our creative thinking skills, there were far too few for an all-day event. Push for Absurd Ideas. Icky Brand Pairings.

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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. This article contains a series of unconnected thoughts that I have captured in the past year, each of which offers the innovation practitioner a possible technique for applying new thinking to solving problems.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 18, 2020

Although the history above is a much-abridged and does not do justice to the complexity of Burmese history from the colonial times to the present, I felt it was important to write about these topics before delving into innovation in Myanmar so as not to trivialize what is happening currently in the country. Shwedagon Pagoda.

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