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. By removing distractions and dedicating time solely to strategic thinking, you create an atmosphere where creativity and big-picture thinking can thrive.

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Roadmap Design Underperforming Technical Team How To 100

Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The Role of Leadership in Strategy Development Leadership is at the heart of strategy development. You have the responsibility to foster an environment where strategic thinking flourishes. As a leader, your vision sets the direction for the company’s future.

Underperforming Technical Team 100

Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Strategy Technical Review 100

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. Free 10-year trial subscription.

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Creativity Creative Thinking Training Brainstorming 48

Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Improved Problem-Solving Facilitates creative thinking and collaborative solutions to challenges. These might include communication techniques, conflict resolution strategies, or innovative brainstorming methods. Brainstorming Methods Generate new ideas, foster creativity. Team disagreements, project challenges.

Team Building 100

Team Building Case Study Collaboration Culture 100

BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

That doesn’t mean leadership should spell out everything. Workplace Diversity – The Why, Who, and How of Strategic Thinking. Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives. Strategic Thinking Perspectives – Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team. 3 Meaningfully Engages and Involves Employees.

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Strategy Strategy Culture Strategic Thinking 151

Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Then they brainstormed for ideas to come as close to this impossibility as possible. They started their brainstorming session with the question (What is impossible to do but if it were possible would….?) CREATIVE THINKERING BOOK REVIEW. IMAGINEERING. How can we imagineer this into a realistic and practical idea?

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Brainstorming Creativity Creative Thinking Handbook 98

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? And once they did, the men in the group jumped in to these powerful conversations. These questions are real. We have free Brainzooming eBooks for you to help navigate barriers and boost innovation!

Strategy 98

Strategy Strategy Brainstorming eBook 98

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

For this ability to tap into the “dynamics of innovation,” most of any future success in the modern world demands a proactive approach through constant skill development and creative thinking. Providing a Range of Insights : Objectives : Foster a diverse and creative mindset to generate a variety of perspectives.

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Change Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Agile 174

Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

The 30 minute weekly webinar features demonstrations of various facilitation tools for: strategy, challenge clarification, idea generation (aka brainstorming), problem framing, idea selection, innovation projects, and idea development, etc. Thinking Differently Takes Tools. At some point everybody needs to think differently.

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Tools Idea Generation Brainstorming LEAN 52

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.

Leadership 40

Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Creative Thinking Meeting 40

BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

Take on leadership and responsibility for decisions. Creative Thinking: What Is the Right Size for a Brainstorming Group? You will learn effective, proven ways to move your implementation plan forward with greater speed and success. You’ll learn ways to help your team: Move forward even amid uncertainty.

Collaboration 77

Collaboration Meeting Strategic Thinking Creative Thinking 77

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. Yes, you can train people in creative thinking, Front-End-of-Innovation (FEI) frameworks, problem solving, and meeting facilitation. Creative training is the fuel for innovation fire. .

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Training Idea Generation Innovation Creative Thinking 48

Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

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. There is no innovation without creativity.

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Innovation Culture Creative Thinking Design Thinking 70

Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Self-expression is the faucet of creative thinking, and without creative thinking you won’t have much innovation. In the various types of innovation training that GFi (Gregg Fraley Innovation) does, it’s interesting that stop-action Improv scenes lead to amazingly effective brainstorming.

Culture 52

Culture Training Creative Thinking Innovation 52

Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

According to Global Human Capital Trends 2015 pg 36, “Organizations that create a culture defined by meaningful work, deep employee engagement, job and organizational fit, and strong leadership are outperforming their peers and will likely beat their competition in attracting top talent.”.

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Culture Meeting Engagement Leadership 91

Idea Champions

APRIL 14, 2017

Enter Idea Champions' Winning the Fundraising Game, a thought provoking, custom designed, 4 - 8 hour creative thinking session that cuts through the "same old same old" syndrome and catalyzes bold, new, actionable possibilities. FACILITATION: Idea Champions consultants are highly experienced facilitators of group process.

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Brainstorming Creative Thinking Conference Design 26

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. HOW IT WORKS: 1.

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Learning Creative Thinking Training Meeting 24

Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2017

TOPICS INCLUDE: Creative Thinking, Culture of Innovation, Brainstorm Facilitation, Storytelling, Leadership, Mindset, Motivation, Collaboration, Facilitation, Listening, Humor, and Change. And it only requires 15 minutes per week. HOW IT WORKS: 1.

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Learning Creative Thinking Training Innovation 24

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. HOW IT WORKS: 1. You (or your designated meeting moderator) facilitates the innovation-topic-of-the week conversation.

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Learning Creative Thinking Training Innovation 22

Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Think of it as a customized, just-in time curriculum that will help each and every person in your organization become proactive innovators on the job -- five minutes (or less) at a time. You tell me which of these topics are most relevant to your organization and I will deliver your custom content within 24 hours.

How To 15

How To Video Training Brainstorming 15

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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Brainstorming Training Ideation Idea Generation 26

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.”

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Groups 40

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. You can bring the facilitation power to your own brainstorming session!

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Meeting Examples Design Brainstorming 106

Idea Drop

JULY 20, 2017

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. Can we constrain our brainstorming session to a fixed time frame?

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Strategic Thinking Creativity Creative Thinking Resources 74

InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 26, 2021

This conglomerate of different personalities and styles can help foster creativity because people are able to see things from different perspectives related to their history, values, and role within the company. Leadership is also a key factor in successful innovation teams. What makes a successful, innovative team?

Underperforming Technical Team 80

Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming Innovation Collaboration 80

Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

Importance of thinking diversity. Measuring creative thinking preferences. Ideation sessions (how to plan and execute, also known as “brainstorming”). How to plan and execute training, ideation, strategy, road-mapping, and brainstorming sessions. Cycle metrics. Managing innovation projects.

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Design Thinking Training Ideation Course 9

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. What outside-the-box ideas could really help us grow if they work?”

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Innovation Programs Innovation Crowdsourcing Creativity 40

Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

These meetings have been variably referred to as leadership development programs, creative thinking trainings, innovation workshops, team building off sites, brainstorming sessions, strategic planning pow wows, senior team retreats, annual conferences, and business simulations. Keep sneaking peaks at their cell phones.

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Meeting Leadership Training Conference 0

Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

These meetings have been variably referred to as leadership development programs, creative thinking trainings, innovation workshops, team building off sites, brainstorming sessions, strategic planning pow wows, senior team retreats, annual conferences, and business simulations. Keep sneaking peaks at their cell phones.

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Meeting Leadership Training Conference 20