Idea Champions

JUNE 28, 2016

As a former student of the martial arts, I have noticed a curious phenomenon in corporate America that is becoming increasingly troubling to me -- especially among "creatives" who aspire to become masterful brainstorm facilitators. Ask the people who participate in your brainstorm sessions to give you feedback. Not a good idea.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

Every brainstorm session you will ever facilitate or attend, like any good movie you will ever see, can be divided into three parts: the beginning, the middle, and the end. THE BEGINNING: This is the "foreplay" stage of brainstorming -- the mood and context setting effort that will either make or break the session.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 22, 2021

My intention not to call attention to myself, but to let you know that I've been deeply immersed in the creative process for decades and, along the way, have learned a lot about what enables the origination, development, and implementation of new possibilities and what obstructs it. But I've definitely had my share of successes.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 14, 2017

This is the core creative thinking question for our Shrimp exercise. This creative thinking question also helps them move beyond ideas they would typically self-censor in almost any situation. When we do use them, they definitely boost the energy level dramatically. Give Conventional Expectations the Heave Ho.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 1, 2022

TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE: No matter how creative you are, having the right person to brainstorm with -- at the right time and in the right way -- can often be the difference between success and failure. Creator of Free the Genie and Brainstorm Champions. Human beings are social animals. We need to express ourselves.

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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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Idea Champions

AUGUST 23, 2020

Simply put, ZoomStorming is a facilitated, online ideation session that radically increases your odds of thinking creativity and originating bold, new, actionable ideas. THIS IS ALL ABOUT EMPOWERMENT, NOT CO-DEPENDENCE: The engine of ZoomStorming is Free the Genie -- an online, creative thinking tool.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 12, 2018

You're trying to find out how you can get a free 15-day trial to my new, online creative thinking tool. You're feeling a compelling need to find someone who can teach you how to run kick-ass brainstorming sessions. Our fabulous brainstorm facilitation training. These two bloggers walk into a bar. Someone's on Line 2.

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Michael Michalko

MARCH 9, 2022

Yet this enhancement of creative thinking exists completely beneath the radar screen. In other words, people are more creative after they forget about the problem for a period of time, but they don’t know it. It’s as if a period of incubation resets your mind. I named mine simply “Brain.”

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Idea Champions

MAY 16, 2017

You're trying to find out how you can get a free 15-day trial to my new, online creative thinking tool. You're feeling a compelling need to find someone who can teach you how to run kick-ass brainstorming sessions. Our fabulous brainstorm facilitation training. These two bloggers walk into a bar. Someone's on Line 2.

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Michael Michalko

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Fortum brainstormed for ways to make it a memorable promotion. After the brainstorming session, one of the participants decided to try one of my techniques to tap into the subconscious mind. He wrote a letter to his subconscious mind and placed it in his desk. Make it a more personal experience by giving your subconscious a name.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Thinking of ideas for different categories.”. Brainstorming for technological advancements”. One of best group brainstorming sessions in a long time.”. A bunch of brainstorming.”. Required a lot of critical thinking”. Discovering Shared Thinking. New and thought provoking ideas.”. Learned a lot”. Networking.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

In order to do this, there must be room for creative thinking and for innovation. "It YWE: 2016 was defined by us as the “Year of Creativity and Innovation” at the ISA, and administrators and senior staff were introduced to tools and brainstormed with on how to implement these tools into our ongoing work.

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KindlingApp

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Asking these two questions will grant your innovation program an immediate headstart over any boardroom-brainstorm strategy. The creative power of your people's minds is definitionally what makes an innovation program valuable to your business , and bringing it to bear on the problem of finding problems to solve is a no-brainer.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

The generally accepted definition of workplace culture is the beliefs and behaviors of employees combined with the ideologies and principles of the organization (Juneja, n.d.). Or, we may have small groups or teams write down workplace obstacles or concerns on paper, and have teams swap papers and brainstorm solutions.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 27, 2020

more joy); and the potential for deeper and more creative thinking (more productive). It can be used by itself, or in conjunction with more traditional brainstorming activities. Managers are usually the greatest bottleneck. WFH requires quite a significant shift in how they motivate and measure worker performance.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

In terms of “stopping in a place where you know what will come next,” this approach to avoid writer’s block in a novel can also be helpful for an innovator leading a brainstorming session which, inevitably, has to end at some point and resume later. In the IT field we perform disaster recovery testing on a periodic basis.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

This is a definitive guide for every innovator who needs to understand the ability to innovate and the organizational culture to support it. A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques by Michael Michalko is a fun book on how to come up with unique ideas and channelize them in your business and personal lives.

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