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Elevate Your Strategy: Leading Executive Team Offsites for Business Success

Leapfrogging

Setting the Stage for Success In the ever-evolving business landscape, executive team offsites have become a cornerstone for strategic planning and decision-making. By stepping away from the daily operations, you and your leadership team can focus on long-term goals, team building, and innovative thinking.

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Creating Roadmaps for Success: How to Design and Run a Strategic Planning Offsite

Leapfrogging

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. It’s an opportunity for you and your executive team to step back, assess the business landscape, and align on the vision and direction of the company.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas

BrainZooming

In my corporate days, I was dispatched to work with competitive companies our corporation purchased. While this constraint may seem (and actually be) ridiculous, it shaped how the Brainzooming method developed. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Innovation is too easy

Jeffrey Phillips

Corporations assign teams without skills or experience, rapidly conduct "brainstorming" exercises based primarily on current opinion or past experience and move as quickly as possible to present a small handful of ideas to a wary executive team. There is a sense of understanding market trends and competitive actions.

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Rethinking Meetings and Conference: Don’t Automate, Innovate

Stephen Shapiro

Back then, companies would use software to automate bad processes, speeding up bad results. This is the modern-day version of automating bad processes. Use breakout rooms with exercises, so that people can apply what they heard. Sometimes these are real-world problems that teams need to solve using the tools.

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Ideation: Anatomy of a New Product Idea

Taivara

If you have teams close to customers, working in the field, using your product everyday – they’ll often be a great source for early indicators of where existing products are missing the mark. I often get derailed by the obstacles and can jump to the conclusion that something new is a bad idea. Good ideas often look bad.

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Ten Simple Ways to Establish a User Friendly Ideation Process

Idea Champions

Let's assume for a moment that you and your company value BIG IDEAS -- the kind of ideas that have the potential to change the game, differentiate you from the competition, and spark some major business growth. So are brainstorming sessions, late night noodling, and creative off-sites. What ARE the holes? That's not the problem.