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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Innovation Encouraging creative thinking and problem-solving as a group. For more in-depth strategies that keynote speakers may utilize to boost team-building, see our article on keynote speaker strategies for team-building. Engaging Presentation Style Keeps the audience invested and facilitates learning.

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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. You will learn effective, proven ways to move your implementation plan forward with greater speed and success.

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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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BrainZooming

MAY 3, 2016

We were working with a client and sharing the value of our extreme creativity strategic exercises to boost creative thinking skills. Another reason to embrace extreme creativity questions is they provide a more beautiful, amazing mental landscape to inspire creative thinking skills.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 22, 2016

Delivering a creative thinking workshop , I was eavesdropping on conversations at five tables full of attendees. One group was starting to use one of our creative thinking exercises. When this takes happens, creative thinking exercises becomes just that many more boxes to shut down ideas that are off the beaten path.

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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Knowledge Sharing: Collaboration encourages the exchange of knowledge and skills, leading to continuous learning and improvement. By fostering team collaboration and implementing team collaboration strategies , organizations can create a fertile ground for creativity and innovation to thrive.

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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. Force Yourself to Self-Evaluate.

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BrainZooming

MAY 4, 2016

Ever felt as if your main creative outlet just isn’t working anymore ? I’m WAY off my creative thinking game when it comes to putting pen to paper and fingers to keyboard. I have some ideas why this is the case, and have been trying to document the reasons my go-to creative outlet isn’t working right now.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

It’s about making informed choices and encouraging your team to think beyond the day-to-day tasks. Dive deeper into this topic with our article on creating business strategy in a world of AI-driven rapid change. Emphasizing Continuous Learning and Adaptability The only constant in today’s business world is 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

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. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

We’ve certainly covered the heck out of how bad bosses , toxic cultures , and negative comments can crush creative thinking and creativity. What you might not consider, however, is how an uber-positive boss that is TOO OVER THE TOP when communicating how great early stage ideas are ALSO CRUSHES creative thinking.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Here are some strategies you might learn about: Encouraging risk-taking and learning from failure to drive progress. Offering continuous learning opportunities to keep team members sharp and engaged. Nurturing Creativity and Collaboration Creativity and collaboration are the lifeblood of innovation.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Today’s creative thinking post is all about music. That’s why these music videos are the centerpiece of today’s creative thinking post. 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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

XQ refers to the ability to draw from past experiences, learnings, and insights to make better decisions, solve complex problems, and navigate the uncertainties of the corporate world. Additionally, learn how to maximize team performance by leveraging experiential intelligence to create psychology safety for high performing teams.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2015

What’s a “pizza meeting,” and what does it have to do with creative thinking? Back in the Fortune 500 days, we facilitated so many strategic planning workshop sessions we gave up renting creativity-oriented offsite locations. Yup, that’s a dirty little secret of creative thinking. What are my pizza meetings?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 29, 2016

Creative Thinking Skills – Some Working, Some Not Working. Amid the odd times, it’s no surprise my creative thinking skills have varied widely the past few months. It’s also fair to share what creative thinking skills HAVEN’T been working lately: Trying to write on the iPad.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

9 Creative Thinking Skills to Turn Talk into Strategy. The team leader’s question prompted this list of 9 creative thinking skills that help turn strategic conversations (or even conversations that seem like talking without any particular strategic focus) into something that feels like strategy.

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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.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Learn more about enhancing virtual team productivity and remote team collaboration to overcome these obstacles. For insights on optimizing these sessions for productivity, visit our article on virtual team productivity. They encourage creative thinking and problem-solving in a fun and competitive environment.

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Innovators Alliance

MARCH 22, 2024

Importantly, an organization’s mindset is not just a reflection of how employees think, but how the organization directs energy and resources to execute its strategy and achieve its purpose. I hope you enjoy this excerpt from an article I wrote for BOSS Magazine that introduces the importance of measuring an organization’s mindset.

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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

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. You’ll learn ways to help your team: Move forward even amid uncertainty.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

For deeper insights on leading such initiatives, explore our article on leading executive team offsites for business strategy. For guidance on the planning process, consider reading our article on designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning. This clarity helps to maintain focus and drive productivity.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 3, 2017

When you think of the diversity of stories, the creativity it takes to make them compelling and the range of story types, characters and plots, you can easily see that writing is creativity and innovation. So perhaps we innovators can learn something from good writers. There are a number of interesting parallels.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

These qualities help in maintaining the audience’s attention and fostering an environment conducive to learning and inspiration. The qualities of a good keynote speaker article provides additional insights into what makes a speaker’s style effective. Event Type Audience Size Feedback Score Tech Conference 500 4.5/5

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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. Culture and Innovation In an era where innovation is indispensable, the culture of your organization can either nurture creative thinking or stifle it.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Improved Problem-Solving Facilitates creative thinking and collaborative solutions to challenges. By employing these tactics, the speaker transforms the passive process of listening into an active learning experience. Renewed Focus Realigns the team’s goals and priorities through shared experiences.

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Brunner

JULY 12, 2023

Only a few short years ago, the general public learned companies were collecting and selling data with every click consumers made. With creative thinking and new strategies being implemented, Brunner is partnering with clients to find ethical ways to store and gather data. A Wild West without rules and regulations.

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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

If you’re looking for more detailed guidance on venue selection and logistical planning, explore the article on facilitating strategic planning offsites. For insights on leading executive team offsites for business strategy, you may find our article on leading executive team offsites for business strategy helpful.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 13, 2018

THIS JUST IN FROM from one of our forward-thinking clients who recently licensed our Micro-Learning for Innovators service. Idea Champions' Micro-Learning for Innovators service provides us with an the ideal mix of easy to digest, thought provoking content. Our creative thinking workshop. Idea Champions.

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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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