Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Creative Thinking Can Be Trained. Train Creativity First, Innovation Next . My new message about innovation is — get back to basics first — and that means the spark of it all, creativity. With creativity activated, facilitators like me help others innovate, using advanced frameworks and tools.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 4, 2021

Creativity is a Choice and a Habit. Join the Creative Flow Challenge. 11th — 18 Days to Creative Power. Learn How to Apply Creativity to All Your Projects. Yes, you can improve your creativity. It doesn’t matter if you think you’re creative or not. Starts Jan.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Then they brainstormed for ideas to come as close to this impossibility as possible. IDEA: The idea they settled on was to use projections of real disabled people to ward off people who try to take disabled spaces. The image is projected onto a thin, water mist screen, which is initially invisible to the public eye.

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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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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Identifying High Potential Leaders To cultivate a thriving atmosphere that embraces innovation, it’s crucial to identify and nurture high potential leaders who can drive change and inspire creativity within an organization. Promotes the use of creative thinking and experimentation to find novel solutions.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

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. Creative Thinking – The Math of Brainstorming and New Ideas. #3 4 Encourages Change.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

As business leaders, it’s essential to understand and integrate this component to drive change and encourage a thriving environment of creativity and risk-taking. By cultivating psychological safety, leaders can establish a fertile ground for creativity and experimentation, which are the lifeblood of innovation.

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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. Team disagreements, project challenges. Brainstorming Methods Generate new ideas, foster creativity.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Knowing how precious your time is, I have designed a simple way to ensure that you get the best possible results from your online Free the Genie brainstorming session. What makes Free the Genie unique is how quickly it opens the creative floodgates -- sparking insights, ahas, and breakthrough ideas. Time required? 15-20 minutes.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 13, 2024

Because we want to increase the odds of people actively participating in the creative thinking process. Any work team that has a compelling goal, challenge or opportunity and the commitment to explore it in creative ways. hours (two 90-minute FTG brainstorming sessions and 30 minutes of pre-work). Why only four?

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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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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 13, 2020

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. The technique can be used in multiple projects or work cases, such as marketing, design, product/service development, and more. What is Brainwriting?

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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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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

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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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Solving an innovation culture problem isn’t easy, but your solution had better include interesting, compelling, and fun, Projects. Projects are how cultures actually change. Self-expression is the faucet of creative thinking, and without creative thinking you won’t have much innovation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

You’ll want to choose a site that is conducive to creativity, focus, and privacy. Additionally, ensure that the venue has the necessary facilities and technology to support your sessions—such as reliable Wi-Fi, projection equipment, and breakout rooms. The logistics of the offsite also require careful planning.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City. Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Facilitate Brainstorming Sessions: Regularly scheduled brainstorming sessions can ignite creative thinking and encourage team members to bounce ideas off one another. Delegate strategic tasks and projects to individuals or teams with the right skills and experience.

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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. Seven Innovation Fundamentals: Applying creative thinking to problems.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 13, 2015

In the past few years I have noticed a curious trend in the media -- one I can no longer ignore -- and that is the appearance of seriously derisive articles about brainstorming by self-declared pundits and free lance writers. What I'm guessing that brainstorming naysayers really mean is that bad brainstorming sessions don't work.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

You don't think of yourself as creative. You've got other projects, outside of work, and have no energy left to think about anything else. They don't pay you enough to think creatively. The brainstorming sessions you attend are pitiful. You're not paid to think. Sleep deprivation.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Zoomstorming is a 60-90 minute online brainstorming process that sparks clarity, insights, new ideas, and the kind of positive mindset needed for aspiring innovators to make meaningful progress with a new venture, idea, problem, or opportunity. Aspiring innovators didn't want a "do-it-yourself creative thinking tool."

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 10, 2017

Creative Training Would Have Helped. Two Points to Make related to Creativity and Innovation: 1.) Culture change doesn’t happen without a project. How United could change would be to organize an innovation project to improve that would involve every person in their organization. Just up the ante.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 19, 2020

You don't think of yourself as creative. You've got other projects, outside of work, and have no energy left to think about anything else. They don't pay you enough to think creatively. The brainstorming sessions you attend are pitiful. You're not paid to think. Sleep deprivation.

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Brainstorming Project Creativity Meeting 72

BrainZooming

MARCH 28, 2017

For many business people, it’s intimidating to walk into an unfamiliar situation (whether that’s a new company, client, team, initiative, or project) knowing you are expected to contribute new business ideas right away. In place of only recycling ideas, try these nine strategic thinking questions and creative thinking paths.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Yes, you can train people in creative thinking, Front-End-of-Innovation (FEI) frameworks, problem solving, and meeting facilitation. You need focused imaginative, divergent, visioning, strategic, and conceptual thinking, and training can get you there. Creative training is the fuel for innovation fire. .

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

So, to kick your session off with a burst of energy and ideas, send out a memo beforehand to brief participants on the project, establish clear goals for the session so everyone is aligned and instruct them to come to the meeting with a list of ideas written down and ready to contribute. They need time to warm up and get the cogs churning.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

So, to kick your session off with a burst of energy and ideas, send out a memo beforehand to brief participants on the project, establish clear goals for the session so everyone is aligned and instruct them to come to the meeting with a list of ideas written down and ready to contribute. They need time to warm up and get the cogs churning.

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Ideation Meeting Project Creativity 52

Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2018

How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City. Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 10, 2019

If your project briefs are vague, incomplete, or non-existent, you have just complicated the situation. Your team doesn't actually know what your customers want, no one is responsible for writing new project briefs, or no one is actually reading/understanding the briefs. Unfortunately, this is all too common. The reasons?

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 4, 2020

Every good project or organization starts in the same place: someone has a great idea for something they can make, provide, or do. This post isn’t a creative guide to coming up with a show-stopping idea, that’s all up to you. Intimately Knowing Your Team and Your Product Portfolio. The importance of the product to your overall value?

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Idea Champions

JUNE 30, 2016

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. That's the good news. What ARE the holes? The result?

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Idea Champions

APRIL 23, 2017

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. That's the good news. What ARE the holes? The result?

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? If your Account Services department (or whoever writes project briefs) delivers vague, incomplete, or hard-to-read briefs to your "creatives", you got trouble in River City. Well, this phenomenon also applies to a company's ideation process.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall. That's the good news. What ARE the holes? The result?

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