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Creative Thinking Skills – Protecting Yourself from Creative Thinking Challenges

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. Organizational Creative Thinking Challenges.

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Creativity in Business – 48 Creative Appreciation Ideas

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Cheerleading for creativity in business isn’t difficult. Yet, you see people, departments, and organizations where overtly expressing creative appreciation doesn’t happen naturally – or happen at all. It could be nobody realized it is good business and good manners to appreciate creativity in business. A clever idea.

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Creative Thinking Activities – 3 Questions to Stop Squandering Diversity

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. When Very Few Things Are Not Like the Other.

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Creative Thinking Skills – 9 Fundamentals to Turn Talk into Strategy

BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

The team leader asked, “How is it possible to listen to us talk and turn it into a strategy so quickly?”. 9 Creative Thinking Skills to Turn Talk into Strategy. Incorporate a bigness and boldness into the language you use to describe the strategy in order to stretch the organization.

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15 Things to Look for in a Business Collaboration

BrainZooming

AUGUST 30, 2016

There is a mutual commitment to learning from the business collaboration. Beyond learning more from the collaboration’s outcomes, it should provide an opportunity to learn about each other and our brand. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Abruptly Halting the Cluster F%@k of Business Meetings

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. The thing is, there’s a different way to structure business meetings to help a group come together and collaborate in an innovative, productive way.

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12 Resources to Lead a Strategic Planning Process When You’re New

BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

While leading strategy development in a new company poses challenges (including needing to learn a tremendous amount as you go), it has a comparable number of advantages (Including not laboring under preconceived ideas about how the organization does things). Actively engage more employees in strategy AND implementation success.

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Strategic Planning Exercises – Two Types of Structure, One Works

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. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Organizational Change – 15 Articles for Unfreezing a Team

BrainZooming

MARCH 8, 2016

mini-Book, we ask a question about the biggest strategy implementation opportunity or challenge the individual is facing in his or her organization. New Business Ideas and a Creative Block in Your Organization. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Just Start!

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Who Should Facilitate Strategic Planning? 10 Vital Characteristics

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Have a strong grounding in business, creative, innovation, and strategic principles. Want to have someone outside your company make your strategic planning work for you in a creative, mentally stimulating and result-oriented way? 10 Keys to Involving Employees In Your Strategy. Willing to both serve and challenge participants.

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Strategic Visioning Exercises – 14 Articles for Creating a Vision Statement

BrainZooming

JANUARY 22, 2016

Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Community Collaboration Workshops Come in All Sizes

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

That is why weeks such as the last one are so rewarding and filled with learning. Switching among so many ways we facilitate community collaboration and learning for organizations keeps us at the top of our game. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

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11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun*

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy and then turn it into results. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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5 Employee Engagement Ideas When Turnover Is High

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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Strategic Planning – 10 Keys to Collaborative Strategy

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 1, 2015

It was a pleasure to talk with Kelly about the impact of collaborative strategy on strategic planning, a topic she and I have discussed off the air many times over the past few years. Creating Strategic Impact mini-book. Strategic Planning – All the Strategy Roles You Need. You can listen to the full episode here. Just Start!

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Strategic Thinking – Job Descriptions Don’t Define Innovation Potential

BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

As in, “We’ve learned from experience that we don’t want them drug into other tasks they might be able to contribute to if that causes performance and timeliness to suffer.” Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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9 Ideas on How to Involve a Team in Group Strategy Exercises

BrainZooming

MARCH 16, 2016

Whenever possible, we try to help clients select a mix of people to participate in group strategy exercises. We review the importance of including front-line decision makers, functional experts, and individuals with creative perspectives. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas

BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

This Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons leaders can use to boost collaboration, meaningful strategic conversations, and results. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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Strategic Planning – 3 Surprising Ways Online Collaboration Works

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. Afterward, we used a Zoomference to introduce strategies to its top-performing sales people. Discover How Online Collaboration Boosts Progress.

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Leadership Skills – 8 Ways to Fake It Until You Make It

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. This new Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons for leaders to increase strategic collaboration, engagement, and create improved results.

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10 Project Planning Questions for Launching New Programs

BrainZooming

JANUARY 20, 2016

If you have questions about the best ways to broaden participation in the earliest stages, be sure to download our Results, mini-book. Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible. Want More Help?

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Internal Branding Strategy – 3 Ways to Be Smarter than United Airlines

BrainZooming

APRIL 21, 2017

With United, a Wall Street Journal Story reports the company cultivates a “rules-based culture where its 85,000 employees are reluctant to make choices not in the ‘book.’”. Sharing the videos may, in fact, have happened even before senior United executives learned of the incident through internal communication channels.

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Employee Engagement Strategies – Pigs, Chickens, and What Great Leaders Do

BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2016

This Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons leaders can use to boost collaboration, meaningful strategic conversations, and results. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises – 11 Things Running through a Facilitator’s Head

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. This new Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons for leaders to increase strategic collaboration, engagement, and create improved results.

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7 Strategic Thinking Questions When Things Aren’t Working

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

When you have solid planning (maybe even over-planning), good strategic thinking questions to identify ways to adapt, and an appreciation for flexibility, unexpected events become a wonderful opportunity for learning and developing. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. – Mike Brown.

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41 Surprising Things about Community Collaboration Done Well

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Originating from an Edward De Bono technique we learned from Chuck Dymer , the PMIRQ asks five open-ended questions on what worked (Plus), didn’t work (Minus), was surprising (Interesting), should be done next time (Recommendation), and didn’t get fully addressed (Question). “I Fresh Ideas and Learning. Learned a lot”.

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9 Strategic Thinking Questions to Start Strategic Conversations

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy and then turn it into results. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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Strategic Thinking – 16 Ideas for Creating an Entrepreneurial Environment Inside Your Company

BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

Ask them to provide concrete examples of when they devised creative solutions. Put together the success recipe based on learning from failure and moving forward. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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Branding Strategy – The Best Brand Promise EVER

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. This new Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons for leaders to increase strategic collaboration, engagement, and create improved results.

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Strategic Planning Exercises – 6 Ways to Organize Lists of Ideas

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. This new Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons for leaders to increase strategic collaboration, engagement, and create improved results.

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Strategic Thinking – 6 Ideas to Put a List in Order

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. This new Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons for leaders to increase strategic collaboration, engagement, and create improved results.

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Make the Commercial First

Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 13, 2017

A marketing page is one version of the minimum viable product. Engaging with potential customers, right from the beginning, and learning what they want is an essential skill. Rather than simply add a UI to an existing product idea, the tools and techniques designers use can be adapted to think through the product itself.

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Strategic Thinking Exercise – An Alternative Vision Statement Approach

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy and then turn it into results. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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Strategic Thinking Exercise – 4 Ways to Examine Brand Performance

BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2016

Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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23 Experts Predict What’s the Most Exciting AI Trend in 2023

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JANUARY 31, 2023

Bill Franks Director, Center for Data Science & Analytics Kennesaw State University Ian Beacraft CEO and Chief Futurist AI Correspondent Creative Generalists become armies of one… Millions have experienced the incredible capabilities of tools like ChatGPT and Dall-E but we haven’t seen anything yet.

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Creative Thinking Skills – Protecting Yourself from Creative Thinking Challenges

Creativity in Business – 48 Creative Appreciation Ideas

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Creative Thinking Skills – 9 Fundamentals to Turn Talk into Strategy

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Abruptly Halting the Cluster F%@k of Business Meetings

12 Resources to Lead a Strategic Planning Process When You’re New

Strategic Planning Exercises – Two Types of Structure, One Works

Organizational Change – 15 Articles for Unfreezing a Team

Who Should Facilitate Strategic Planning? 10 Vital Characteristics

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Community Collaboration Workshops Come in All Sizes

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5 Employee Engagement Ideas When Turnover Is High

Strategic Planning – 10 Keys to Collaborative Strategy

Strategic Thinking – Job Descriptions Don’t Define Innovation Potential

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Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas

Strategic Planning – 3 Surprising Ways Online Collaboration Works

Leadership Skills – 8 Ways to Fake It Until You Make It

10 Project Planning Questions for Launching New Programs

Internal Branding Strategy – 3 Ways to Be Smarter than United Airlines

Employee Engagement Strategies – Pigs, Chickens, and What Great Leaders Do

Strategic Thinking Exercises – 11 Things Running through a Facilitator’s Head

7 Strategic Thinking Questions When Things Aren’t Working

41 Surprising Things about Community Collaboration Done Well

9 Strategic Thinking Questions to Start Strategic Conversations

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Branding Strategy – The Best Brand Promise EVER

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