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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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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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 12, 2023

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack In our previous blogs, we outlined the need, in our chaotic world of unknowns, to reclaim our focus and attention and take charge of our own minds. By reclaiming these, and enhancing self-awareness we have a deeper understanding of the sources of our anxiety and distractions. How to self-manage and […]

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Idea Champions

MARCH 22, 2021

If you are thinking about subscribing to The Year of Living Creatively , one question you are likely to ask is this: "Who created it -- and what are his credentials?". FREE THE GENIE BRAINSTORMING : Facilitated, online creative thinking sessions for individuals and small teams. In other words, I practice what I preach.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Design Thinking, a methodology traditionally reserved for creating products and services, holds transformative potential for personal growth and innovation. However, when applied to personal development, these phases can be adapted to foster self-awareness, goal setting, creative problem-solving, and resilience.

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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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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

JULY 20, 2018

The next natural question in our conversation was about what types of strategic thinking questions to ask. While I think there’s a Brainzooming blog post for this, it was almost faster to write a new, updated list of questions than to find the post. 21 Strategic Thinking Questions When You Have Nothing to Ask.

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ImagineNation

JULY 23, 2018

Whether you are a company that wants to attract top talent or an individual who is trying to land your dream job, or create a new business, it’s becoming clear that the future of work is both human and technology centred and involves the development of new leadership capabilities. Leadership as a way of life.

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 4, 2022

Design Thinking is the best approach to issues at the intersection of multiple sectors like society and business, emotions and logic, creative and rational thinking, addressing economic demands and needs, and systems and individuals. Design Thinking breaks us free from the older mold of doing things and gives us a fresh outlook.

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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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Technology Created

DECEMBER 13, 2014

There are over 100 million WordPress and Tumblr blogs. Or do better tools actually make for worse creativity and less productivity? Does the small and the simple pull us away from developing skills, ideas and creative flow? Is “Game of Thrones” a major source of what we see, the landscape of creativity that we view?

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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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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

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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Phil McKinney

APRIL 9, 2022

The world is a place of normality. It's the place where we go to school, work, and come home to our families. We see the same people every day and do the same things. We are used to doing things in a certain way and we don't question it. But what if we were to […].

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

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

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Today I am focusing on LinkedIn inspirations for creative clicks; I get inspiration there every day. As always with creative clicks, click on the headlines in these LinkedIn Inspirations to link to the original article. Being a HUGE egghead, it inspires me to get a dose of the science behind creative thinking exercises.

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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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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The Generative Level – which most transformation and change initiatives ignore, because they fail to develop the critical and creative thinking, and problem sensing and solving skills that are required to GENERATE the crucial elastic thinking and human skills that result in change, and innovation.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. In the next installment of the Leading Innovation series, we’ll dive deep into systems and processes with the architect leadership role. This blog post is part of the Leading Innovation series authored by Laszlo Gyorffy, MS.

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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

JUNE 30, 2019

Last year, I had the great good fortune to spend three wonderful months at Al Siraat College in Melbourne, Australia, working closely with the founders, leadership team, teachers, staff, and students. It was one of the most inspiring experiences in my 30-year career as an organizational change agent. There is no quick path.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 28, 2021

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack In our last blog, we proposed, rather than living in a world where everyone hates to fail, why not adopt a rethink, respond, regroup, thrive pattern, and experience failure as an opportunity for change, unlearning, and … Continue reading →

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Wazoku

DECEMBER 20, 2018

There are six pillars which define culture within an organisation and one of the key things to remember is that it’s everyone’s responsibility, not just the leadership team. These spaces offer employees and related connections a creative space to work, knowing that the time and energy dedicated to innovation is valued.

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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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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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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The Brainzooming blog wasn’t originally focused on project management techniques. NASCAR teams are used to stretching one of their main resources (fuel) with creative, winning strategies. Project Management Tips – 8 Signs a Creative Project Is Done. Take on leadership and responsibility for decisions.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JULY 20, 2017

Every other blog (at times, this one included) tries to gives us hacks that can help us increase our productivity. 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.

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The Human Factor

MARCH 1, 2019

As anyone who reads my blog knows, I’m a big proponent of playing with it. With the rate of change in today’s world, learning how to counteract these brain foibles has become a very important leadership skill. And your brain gets to enjoy a few well-deserved moments of fun and creative thinking. Stuck in the past.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 21, 2020

This calls for interaction, creativity, and the articulation of many different opinions. Imagine you are on the leadership team of one of the top five executive jet rental companies, such as Netjets, GlobeAir, or Stratos Jet Charters. Train MBA students and executives in strategic and creative thinking.

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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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Innovation Excellence

MAY 26, 2020

Uncover hidden motivation: needs, wants, and beliefs: Now deeper truths can emerge; try to combine your clues and meanings to form a hunch and a creative new belief about the world. Try this core creative process to generate prospective outcomes to explore in any aspect of your business. Connect Where is this problem? Try it yourself.

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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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The Human Factor

APRIL 1, 2015

Think it’s doable?” “Think Outside the Box” . As Dr. Ramiro Zuniga points out, creative thought is already a given for most organizations. Provide clear guidance for innovative thought to encourage creative thinking – don’t outright demand it. .

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Design, critical & creative thinking are here to help – making learning a work-related intervention rather than a work interruption. Provide formal, structured mentoring & coaching support that fosters & enables fresh & different thinking, creative problem solving & collaborative business practices.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. They can be too passive, boring, yield few ideas (and even fewer creative innovations), last too long, and result in too much discussion and too little action. Hack” = experimental, creative problem solving with a playful approach . +.

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