Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

These workshops foster an environment of learning and collaboration among peers, which is conducive to exploring new ways of thinking. This can be achieved through diverse team compositions and cross-functional collaboration. This will help in identifying areas ripe for innovation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

These workshops foster an environment of learning and collaboration among peers, which is conducive to exploring new ways of thinking. This can be achieved through diverse team compositions and cross-functional collaboration. This will help in identifying areas ripe for innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Shaping Innovation for a Meaningful Change Following on from my initial post, “ Our Need is to Shape Innovation Dynamically, ” this post outlines the eight value-adding points that I can help build out and deliver alongside you in different delivery modules to fit your circumstances and budgets.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 9, 2024

Free the Genie for Teams is a simple, online, collaborative process that enables teams to unleash their collective genius and generate breakthrough ideas in service to a compelling goal, challenge or opportunity. question for your team to brainstorm. Everyone perceives "things" differently. One size does not fit all.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Importance of Fostering Innovation in Leadership Defining Innovation Culture An innovation culture refers to the values, behaviors, and norms that ensure an organization not only generates new ideas but also executes them to achieve positive outcomes.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

The Importance of Innovation in Executive Leadership Innovation is the lifeblood of any successful organization. As an executive leader, I’m often tasked with driving innovation within my team to ensure our company remains at the forefront of our industry.

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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 13, 2020

This brainwriting exercise template can help your virtual or in person innovation teams succeed. 6-3-5 Brainwriting is a group-structured brainstorming technique that is a highly collaborative way to generate as many ideas as possible in groups within a short period of time. This exercise can either be done in person or online.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Top Questions about Innovation. What are the most popular or common questions people have about innovation? What are the frequently asked questions about innovation? We used our AI tools to identify the questions people ask about innovation the most and find the answers. Read on for the innovation FAQs!

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Encouraging Open Dialogue and Collaboration Open dialogue and collaboration are the bedrocks of strategic thinking. Transparency leads to trust, and trust leads to more meaningful collaboration. Here are 10 ways to get your leadership team thinking strategically and building the best business strategies.

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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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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. Why give readers tips on brainstorming only after spending eight paragraphs trying to discredit it? Nine Brainstorming Bad Habits to Break 1.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. Innovation : Encourages innovative thinking by offering a change of scenery and a break from routine.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 8, 2021

Covid-19 hasn't just disrupted businesses around the world, it has also disrupted their ability to innovate. We designed and facilitated a wide range of creative thinking sessions for our clients -- opportunities for them to unleash their collective brilliance and make significant progress on a specific goal, initiative, or opportunity.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

We see seven keys to creating an innovative workplace culture where individuals are able to meaningfully contribute to the organization’s innovation strategy. If you’re looking at your organization and wondering where to start to foster a more innovative workplace culture, here are forty articles to go deeper into the topic.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

In nearly every Brainzooming community collaboration workshop, we conclude with a Plus-Minus-Interesting-Recommendation-Question exercise (a PMIRQ for short). The open-ended questions in a PMIRQ allow participants to share invaluable reactions and ideas; we use them directly to shape what we do in future innovation workshops.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 29, 2021

Val Vadeboncoeur, Idea Champions' Director of Training, is a highly accomplished brainstorm facilitator, creative thinking catalyst, innovation workshop leader, and co-author of Conducting Genius. Click here to identify the project you'd like to brainstorm with Val. FEE: $95/hr.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

These retreats are not merely a change of scenery but a strategic move to foster innovation and alignment among the top decision-makers of your company. 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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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 30, 2021

Find Liberating Structures training resources and templates to get started with these unique innovative meeting methods. Designing and facilitating innovative meetings with your team can be pressure-filled and time-consuming. If you are struggling to implement successful and innovative meetings, consider taking a different approach.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Training Accelerates Innovation. 94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. 70% of CEO’s see innovation as a key driver of growth. Why then is corporate America so woefully undertrained in innovation fundamentals? Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation .

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Idea Champions

MARCH 22, 2021

Val Vadeboncoeur, Idea Champions' Director of Training, is a highly accomplished brainstorm facilitator, creative thinking catalyst, innovation workshop leader, and co-author of Conducting Genius. Click here to identify the project you'd like to brainstorm with Val. FEE: $95/hr.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

Someone wondered about the range of topics included in the disruptive innovation strategy workshop we delivered recently. Even though the workshop spanned nearly ten hours over two days, we had to narrow the content significantly to achieve the client’s innovation objectives. 27 Links to Energize Your Innovation Strategy.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 22, 2021

IDEA CHAMPIONS: Co-Founder and President an innovation consulting and training company. FREE THE GENIE : A deck of cards to help aspiring innovators originate, develop, and manifest bold new ideas and possibilities. FREE THE GENIE BRAINSTORMING : Facilitated, online creative thinking sessions for individuals and small teams.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Facing Innovation Barriers? Are you facing organizational innovation barriers related to: The fear of change ? Limited innovation perspectives ? Multiple innovation challenges ? We have free Brainzooming eBooks for you to help navigate barriers and boost innovation! Here Is Help! Scarce resources ?

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2020

Just like physicians, these days, are now increasingly delivering their services via tele-medicine , Mitch is now offering tele-innovation services -- more specifically, online coaching, a way to help his clients clear their heads, open their minds, and discover new ways to adapt to these radically changing times. His credentials?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 15, 2016

That’s why we like a great balance of people, perspectives, and voices in a strategic thinking workshop. That’s why we like servant leaders that figure out ways to work collaboratively, productively, AND creatively with other members of the team. So get creative individually. Get creative in a group.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It can also help them reflect on issues like innovation, strategy, vision, etc. Simply put, an executive retreat can help the leadership team at your organization or company tackle your own unique challenges, brainstorm future goals, and build a global vision moving forward. Innovation Teams within Organizations.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Based on my 33 years of working with a ton of innovation-seeking organizations, here's my take on WHY you don't get your best ideas at work: 1. You are understaffed and don't have the time to try an innovative approach. You have not identified a challenge or opportunity that inspires you enough to think up new ideas.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 19, 2020

Based on my 33 years of working with a ton of innovation-seeking organizations, here's my take on WHY you don't get your best ideas at work: 1. You are understaffed and don't have the time to try an innovative approach. You have not identified a challenge or opportunity that inspires you enough to think up new ideas.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 19, 2018

Innovation is a huge topic in organizations these days. Which is precisely why my company, Idea Champions , is now offering Jump Starting Innovation , a cost-effective way to stir the innovation soup -- a virtual, self-organizing, just-in-time way to increase everyone's ability to be a proactive innovator on-the-job.

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Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

or leading brainstorming sessions for 80 Muslim teenagers. Until then, here are the words of Fazeel, reflecting on our collaboration: "I had a strong desire to introduce a culture of creativity and innovation to our humble school in Australia. 100 educational innovations from around the world. Idea Champions.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Innovation is a huge topic in organizations these days. Which is precisely why my company, Idea Champions , is now offering Jump Starting Innovation , a cost-effective way to stir the innovation soup -- a virtual, self-organizing, just-in-time way to increase everyone's ability to be a proactive innovator on-the-job.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 28, 2017

In place of only recycling ideas, try these nine strategic thinking questions and creative thinking paths. The formula is to ask a specific question, LISTEN for responses from others, and follow a related creating thinking direction to generate ideas more quickly: Ask: What’s been tried before? Innovation.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 4, 2020

There are few things more magical than watching a group of people come together to move toward a common goal, invest in themselves and one another, and lead innovation in their discipline. Have every member brainstorm a list of metrics and see where the lists overlap, and where there are differences. Except, maybe, being one of them.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

To become really innovative, your company needs a special culture, a new mindset across all levels, disciplines, and functions. As a leader, you need to introduce and promote a solid innovation framework, which will gradually become part of the normal, day-to-day business. Provide the innovation framework. Team Responsibilities.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 7, 2021

There are many different exercises that people use for innovation, but very few of them are as effective as mind mapping. In this article, we will walk through what a mind map is while discussing some of the important ways it fuels innovation. Enables Tiered Thinking. What Is Mind Mapping?

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Innovation is a huge topic in organizations these days. Which is precisely why my company, Idea Champions , is now offering Micro-Learning for Innovators , a cost-effective way to stir the innovation soup -- a virtual, self-organizing, just-in-time way to increase everyone's ability to be a proactive innovator on-the-job.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for an industrial company. During the innovation strategy discussions, we addressed the production process changes from five different perspectives. From a facilitation standpoint, it was the most arduous couple of days of going through strategic thinking exercises I recall.

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