IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In order to get your creative juices flowing it can be important to engage in creative thinking exercises and practice ways you can improve your innovation process. Advantages of Creative Thinking Exercises. Here are some of the advantages of using creative thinking exercises. Discovering New Ideas.

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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

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. Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

These speakers cover a range of topics, from the innovation process to the creation of a culture that nurtures creativity and collaboration. Insightful innovation keynote speakers can provide valuable perspectives on creating an environment that fosters inventiveness and forward-thinking.

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Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Find the most creative people at work and ask for their ideas. Brainstorm daily with a co-worker. Go for a daily brainstorming walk. Ask someone to collaborate with you on your favorite project. Invite your customers and vendors to brainstorming sessions. Think of five other ways to define your challenge.

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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. To identify this, consider what you do best and how it meets the needs and desires of your target market.

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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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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. Liberating structures is a selection of 33 alternative structures for hosting and facilitating meetings.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

This can help maintain energy levels and encourage informal collaboration. Let’s explore how you can create an environment conducive to collaboration and strategic thinking. Mastery in encouraging open communication and fostering collaboration and creativity can set your offsite apart.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

This approach encourages a more collaborative and innovative team dynamic, which is essential for business growth and success. How Psychological Safety Encourages Risk-Taking and Creativity When team members feel psychologically safe, they are more likely to take risks and venture into the realm of creative thinking.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Specifically: No fluidity in free-associative divergent thinking necessary to innovate — people do not know how to think like innovators! Inappropriate meeting behavior that shuts down others, hosing collaborative work. Teams and work groups don’t know how to be collaborative.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

In Organizational Design: Clearing the Runway for Collaboration and Breakthrough Thinking, we demonstrated how to build teams in a way that facilitates sharing and communication to allow both groups and individuals to grow. Employees who feel their voices are heard are 4.6x

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

You don't think of yourself as creative. Boring meetings that put you in a bad mood. You have not identified a challenge or opportunity that inspires you enough to think up new ideas. There's no one to collaborate with. The brainstorming sessions you attend are pitiful. You're not paid to think.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 19, 2020

You don't think of yourself as creative. Boring meetings that put you in a bad mood. You have not identified a challenge or opportunity that inspires you enough to think up new ideas. There's no one to collaborate with. The brainstorming sessions you attend are pitiful. You're not paid to think.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 4, 2020

Have every member brainstorm a list of metrics and see where the lists overlap, and where there are differences. For medium-sized organizations like our school, we had each team come together and create a collaborative list. it is not unreasonable to meet with 60 individuals within the first 30 days).

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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. If you need to go into the meeting or new situation and move things forward with less knowledge and experience than you prefer, here are ways you can fake it until you make it.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. We’ve all been to uninspiring organizational meetings before. Far too often, engaging and innovative meetings are rare and fall short of accomplishing their goals. You can host more innovative innovation meetings that inspire.

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Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

or leading brainstorming sessions for 80 Muslim teenagers. or reinventing how meetings happen in an Islamic school, I would have thought you were hallucinating. If you had told me two years ago that I was going to be leading experiential learning activities in a field with 100 Muslim teachers. There is no quick path.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 28, 2017

If you face those types of situations, you know how nerve wracking it can be to have to go from “nice to meet you” to new business ideas in perhaps minutes. In place of only recycling ideas, try these nine strategic thinking questions and creative thinking paths.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 6, 2018

Ask the most creative people at work for their ideas. Brainstorm with a co-worker. Go for a daily brainstorming walk. Ask someone to collaborate with you on your favorite project. Ask someone to collaborate with you on your favorite project. Invite your customers to brainstorming sessions. Have more fun.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 19, 2018

TOPICS INCLUDE: Culture of Innovation, Creative Thinking, Idea Generation, Brainstorm Facilitation, Storytelling, Leadership, Mindset, Teamwork & Collaboration, Meeting Mastery, Listening & Feedback, Problem Solving, and Employee Engagement. And it only requires 15 minutes per week. HOW IT WORKS: 1.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2017

TOPICS INCLUDE: Creative Thinking, Culture of Innovation, Brainstorm Facilitation, Storytelling, Leadership, Mindset, Motivation, Collaboration, Facilitation, Listening, Humor, and Change. You (or your designated meeting moderator) facilitates the innovation-topic-of-the week conversation. HOW IT WORKS: 1.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

TOPICS INCLUDE: Mindset, Culture of Innovation, Creative Thinking, Idea Generation, Brainstorm Facilitation, Storytelling, Leadership, Teamwork/Collaboration, Listening/Feedback, Problem Solving. You (or your designated meeting moderator) facilitates the innovation-topic-of-the week conversation. HOW IT WORKS: 1.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

We turn that input into a collaborative vision statement. Pushing Back on a Strategic Thinking Exercise. Adapting this strategic thinking exercise for a client , however, we experienced MAJOR push back. The idea of a leader collaboratively determining the direction organization should go is rare. So we pushed back.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 26, 2021

Innovative teams that are constantly challenging themselves to accelerate and create can provide an immense competitive advantage and develop products and services that directly meet challenges faced by consumers in their marketspace. Aside from collaboration, innovation teams must also fight against a “failure” mentality.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Since 1987, Idea Champions has been designing and facilitating a wide range of brainstorming sessions, creative thinking trainings, and innovation workshops for more than 130 organizations in 11 different countries. During that time, we have worked with just about every industry on planet earth and every kind of mindset.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 15, 2017

Inspired ideas that meet a need -- whether expressed or unexpressed -- ideas with enough mojo to rally sustained support. Baby chicks break through the shell separating them from flight not because their mothers are rushing off to meetings on parenting skills, but because their mothers are immersed in the act of hatching. BRAINSTORM.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 28, 2019

Idea Champions has trained quite a few PR and Marketing firms in the art and science of facilitating breakthrough brainstorming sessions. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, Idea Champions' ability to quickly and effectively teach my colleagues and me how to facilitate brainstorming sessions changed the future of our business.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Inspired ideas that meet a need -- whether expressed or unexpressed -- ideas with enough mojo to rally sustained support. Baby chicks break through the shell separating them from flight not because their mothers are rushing off to meetings on parenting skills, but because their mothers are immersed in the act of hatching. BRAINSTORM.

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Idea Champions

MAY 9, 2016

Inspired ideas that meet a need -- whether expressed or unexpressed -- ideas with enough mojo to rally sustained support. Baby chicks break through the shell separating them from flight not because their mothers are rushing off to meetings on parenting skills, but because their mothers are immersed in the act of hatching. BRAINSTORM.

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Idea Drop

JULY 20, 2017

We’re driven to collaborate, challenge and create. There are two distinct (though complementary) ways to work through a problem and develop a solution: we might label them ‘creative thinking’ and ‘strategic thinking’. Creative thinking focuses on capturing the unusual, unique and unchartered.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 27, 2020

Millions of office workers around the world were told to “stay in your homes…but keep on working and collaborating.” Big Tech’s offerings – Google Meet (Hangouts), Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams – also experienced growth. Even WFH evangelist Matt Mullenweg asks his global teams to meet face-to-face several times per year.

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KindlingApp

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

As they work to develop strategic thinking about innovation program goals and aims, leadership often holds closed-door meetings where key stakeholders attempt to identify the problems and projects that they'll challenge their innovators to solve or advance. Crowdsource Your Crowdsourcing Goals. Optimize for Serendipity.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

However, that is not the viewpoint of the administration at the ISA – we constantly strive not only to be relevant, but also to allow the financial markets to evolve, while adapting regulation to meet current demands. In order to do this, there must be room for creative thinking and for innovation. "It

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Idea Champions

APRIL 6, 2023

We brainstormed, blue-skied, dialogued, role played, invented, read, sang, stretched, drank coffee, wine, the crisp Colorado air, and whatever else it took to free ourselves from the gravity of what we already knew. Rube Goldberg meets Fellini. We walked our talk. We noodled. We conjured. The floors? Yes, we did.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 20, 2018

We brainstormed, blue-skied, dialogued, role played, invented, read, sang, stretched, drank coffee, wine, the crisp Colorado air, and whatever else it took to free ourselves from the gravity of what we already knew. Rube Goldberg meets Fellini. We walked our talk. We noodled. We conjured. The floors? Yes, we did.

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