Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Creativity special: Ten top tips Tom Ward senior research fellow in the Center for Creative Media at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and editor of the Journal of Creative Behavior “Merge two previously separate concepts that are in conflict with one another. Especially, engage in that for which you have not been schooled.”

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 15, 2015

You start writing blog posts , stick with it nearly every day , repeat that for nearly eight years, and suddenly, you have two thousand blog posts. At least that’s what has happened with the Brainzooming blog! Today, based on the post counter in WordPress, is our two thousandth blog. MM, 2K, 2000.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2018

Be very silent (uncomfortably silent) until the audience notices and re-engages. Move to the Shrimp creative thinking exercise. Call on the person with bright eyes and engage with them. Create a contest right on the spot and give a pair of orange I am Creative socks to the winner. Use self-deprecating humor.

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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. The mini-book focuses on the tremendous value when an organization finds ways to strategically solicit employee insights and perspectives to shape its strategic thinking.

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Cris Beswick

JUNE 11, 2024

When psychological safety is present, people are more likely to engage in creative problem-solving, share their insights, and collaborate effectively, ultimately driving innovation and organisational success. Furthermore, psychological safety promotes diversity of thought and encourages people to bring their authentic selves to work.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

First of Seven Blogs. Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. Innovation Fundamentals for Leaders.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 18, 2019

The whole search for diversity can generate so much fresh thinking if we open our minds to the alternatives. We need to draw on insights, creativity but most importantly have a growing sense of the context we are thinking through to search for new ideas, concepts, and eventual new innovating solutions.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It seems that many people lack the capacity, confidence, and competence, to underpin their balance, well-being, and resilience, which resources their ability and GRIT to engage fully in transformation and change initiatives. Being empathic, compassionate, and appreciative, and engaging in self-care activities and well-being practices.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

I have also since seen a mounting amount of scientific research showing how women do not even get the same credit for their creativity or innovation work as if a man were to suggest the same idea. The main thing is to start with creativity- understand that creativity is the engine for innovation. Twitter: natwnixon.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We have released a host of eBooks on strategic planning exercises and ideas to increase collaboration, creative thinking, alignment, and successful implementation. This is our biggest collection ever of strategic thinking questions to move strategy planning ahead in finding the best strategic direction.

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 3, 2021

This lifecycle is what Forrester describes as the 5 key activities of innovation management , a process through which creative ideas are given life via targeting, ideation, incubation, business planning, and commercialization (more on this in point 1 below). Speaking of engagement, let’s talk about gamification. And the benefits?

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Yet2

JUNE 6, 2023

LGBTQIA+ inventors have played a significant role in shaping our world through their ground-breaking innovations and creative thinking. At yet2 , we know that diverse perspectives and experiences fuel creativity and drive breakthrough innovations.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

I went back through recent responses from among readers who are on the blog most frequently. “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. Innovation.

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BrainZooming

MAY 1, 2017

The four characteristics relate to quick decision making, engaging employees, anticipating forward-looking change, and delivering consistent performance. Engaging Employees. Employee Engagement Strategies – Pigs, Chickens, and What Great Leaders Do. 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

My response is the more we share the Brainzooming methodology with you, the more you can improve your own strategy work on a daily basis in situations where it would NEVER be practical to engage us for help. These compilations are organized to be easier to use than combing through individual blog posts. What to Blog About?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 5, 2018

It doesn’t start with getting everyone together in a room for a creative thinking workshop and expecting innovative ideas to happen spontaneously. Analysis, outreach, and design thinking combine to make in-person innovation productive and ROI-driven – after completing the pre-work. More Posts - Website Follow Me:

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

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. In the meantime, I’ll be sharing some of my takeaways from conference, here on the blog. The hard part, honestly, was deciding which sessions to pick.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 30, 2016

There may be more, but thinking back on business collaborations from the past few years, those items characterize the decision making and expected impacts of our varied collaborations. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 30, 2021

From hackathons to stand up meetings and everything in between, we understand that a more collaborative approach can make a massive difference in boosting efficiency, creativity, and effectiveness. Get your entire team engaged with this open participation activity. Miro’s 1-2-4 All Template. Miro’s WINFY Template. Conclusion.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. Support staff to engage in open innovation with customers. Social media : Participate in social media by asking questions, commenting and engaging with your fans. Begin with the End . How to Connect with Customers.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

We’ll use highly productive strategic and creative thinking exercises. We surround your team with strategic thinking exercises and structure so even inexperienced people will succeed at strategic planning. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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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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BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

You know, this week doesn’t have to be as unproductive as last week, what with business meetings going nowhere along with wasting time, positive energy, and any hope of creativity. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We’re big proponents of the value of bringing together a diverse group of people with varied creative thinking skills for strategic planning workshops within organizations and communities. When discussing a strategic planning or innovation strategy engagement with a client, we use the graphic below to design our recommended approach.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. Creative Thinking: What Is the Right Size for a Brainstorming Group?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2017

That is why wrapping strategy meetings in creative thinking exercises and the appropriate amount of fun and diversion is optimum. Across our client engagements, here are links to 80 activities and ideas for making strategy more fun! 6 Last-Minute Creative Ideas for Fun Strategy Exercises. 4 Times to Avoid Toys.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

According to MaRS – North America’s largest urban innovation hub, “a culture of innovation is an environment that supports creative thinking and advances efforts to extract economic and social value from knowledge, and, in doing so, generates new or improved products, services or processes”.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Icebreakers can also be used throughout the retreat to facilitate different groupings with creative thinking and problem solving purposes. Why are they personally engaged and invested in the organization and its goals moving forward? Focus on reflection. Aside from that, every leader should also have their own personal why.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Designing strategic thinking questions leading to engaging conversation among familiar and new participants. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. Providing participants with a starting point to begin planning.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Strategic Thinking Perspectives – Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team. Creative Thinking Skills – Using Questions and Structure Successfully. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. Just Start! Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

You can provide people with strategic thinking exercises, creative thinking tools, strategy questions, and ways to collaborate with one another, using structure to help imagine better strategies. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. Many consultants focus only on the first type of structure.

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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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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs to this blog post and will now simply cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or a joke. How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? You're busy. You know it.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

I asked them to engage in some strategic thinking about innovation opportunities for the company. They used that as a justification for opting out of strategic thinking. That’s why leaders should be looking for strategic thinking THROUGHOUT their organizations ! – Mike Brown. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

And if it’s bad, use other strategic thinking exercises to gently bring the ideas back to something smarter and more productive. – Mike Brown. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming 40

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

But when we look back and see how we pushed the thinking on the initiative, it’s clear all the challenges were all worth it! – Mike Brown. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions.

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IdeaSpies

AUGUST 19, 2019

INNOVATION BLOG. Search for: Clever Ideas , Innovation Blog. Engaging for impact: CEO’s with astute understanding of their stakeholders’ needs and motivations, who got people on board by driving for performance and aligning them around the goal of value creation were 75% more successful in the role. CATEGORIES. Agriculture.

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