BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

Sometimes creative thinking challenges come from inside your own head. In many organizations, however, substantial creative thinking challenges come from leaders and cultures that may say they want new thinking, but seem to do everything they can to scuttle creativity.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 21, 2021

Idea Champions is thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting new offering -- an elegant way for its time-crunched, innovation-leaning clients to upgrade the impact of their (on-site) brainstorming sessions -- just in time, as some of our clients, post-pandemic, begin gathering together, in the flesh, again. No off-sites required.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Introduction to Innovation Keynote Speakers Importance of Keynote Speakers in Corporate Events Keynote speakers play a pivotal role in the success of corporate events. They are the linchpins that can inspire, motivate, and ignite a passion for innovation within your organization.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Importance of Fostering Innovation in Leadership Defining Innovation Culture An innovation culture refers to the values, behaviors, and norms that ensure an organization not only generates new ideas but also executes them to achieve positive outcomes.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

XQ refers to the ability to draw from past experiences, learnings, and insights to make better decisions, solve complex problems, and navigate the uncertainties of the corporate world. The Importance of Innovation in Executive Leadership Innovation is the lifeblood of any successful organization.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Leadership Development Workshops Workshops focused on leadership development provide executives with the opportunity to learn new strategies, tools, and frameworks that can aid in their mindset shift. These workshops foster an environment of learning and collaboration among peers, which is conducive to exploring new ways of thinking.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Leadership Development Workshops Workshops focused on leadership development provide executives with the opportunity to learn new strategies, tools, and frameworks that can aid in their mindset shift. These workshops foster an environment of learning and collaboration among peers, which is conducive to exploring new ways of thinking.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 9, 2024

The service we provide is the distillation of what we've learned, since 1987, designing and facilitating more 1,500 creative thinking sessions for 130 organizations in 11 countries. Bottom line, we know how to open the floodgates of creativity. question for your team to brainstorm. One size does not fit all.

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Qmarkets

JULY 13, 2017

The False Promise of Traditional Brainstorming. published a book called "Your Creative Power" in which he shared his secrets. One idea in his book, discussed in Chapter 33 on "How to Organize a Squad to Create Ideas", later became one of the most widely used creativity techniques in the world.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. 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. However, it doesn’t need to be this way.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 13, 2020

Idea Champions , a recognized world leader in the field of brainstorm facilitation training, is now offering a 90-minute online training -- a distillation of the very best of what we've learned, since 1987, leading creative thinking sessions for these organizations. Micro-Learning for Innovators.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We’re with a client today, delivering a strategic and creative thinking skills for sales workshop. As an outgrowth of the workshop, here is a strategic and creative thinking skills compilation comprised of articles that support the Brainzooming workshop we’re delivering. Mike Brown.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 26, 2021

Tips for building and sustaining innovation teams within your organizational culture. Successful organizations understand that innovation should be embedded directly into their culture and way of doing business. This is an individual innovative mindset that also is alive in innovative teams. What is an innovative team?

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 13, 2020

clear vision), Idea Champions is thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting new offering -- an elegant way for its time-crunched, innovation-leaning clients to upgrade the impact of their brainstorming sessions. Indeed, there is a long history of this approach and it has proven to be very effective: Micro-Learning.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

We see seven keys to creating an innovative workplace culture where individuals are able to meaningfully contribute to the organization’s innovation strategy. If you’re looking at your organization and wondering where to start to foster a more innovative workplace culture, here are forty articles to go deeper into the topic.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Importance of Effective Communication in Virtual Teams Effective communication in virtual teams is the linchpin of productivity, innovation, and a cohesive work environment. By acknowledging the challenges and implementing strategic measures, you can navigate these waters successfully to uphold a productive and innovative virtual team.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Importance of Effective Communication in Virtual Teams Effective communication in virtual teams is the linchpin of productivity, innovation, and a cohesive work environment. By acknowledging the challenges and implementing strategic measures, you can navigate these waters successfully to uphold a productive and innovative virtual team.

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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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Rmukesh Gupta

DECEMBER 14, 2017

As I always believe, learning happens best when people have a lot of fun while learning. We then retain a lot of what we learn in that setting. I am sure that everyone of us, me included, have at one point or other, been invited to join in a brainstorm to come up with ideas to solve a given problem. Delay judgements.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 3, 2020

clear vision), Idea Champions is thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting new offering -- an elegant way for its time-crunched, innovation-leaning clients to upgrade the impact of their brainstorming sessions. Indeed, there is a long history of this approach and it has proven to be very effective: Micro-Learning.

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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. Emphasizing Continuous Learning and Adaptability The only constant in today’s business world is change.

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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Improved Problem-Solving Facilitates creative thinking and collaborative solutions to challenges. These presentations often offer fresh perspectives that inspire innovation and encourage teams to approach problems in new ways. Innovation, willingness to embrace change. Aspirational drive, belief in potential.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Top Questions about Innovation. What are the most popular or common questions people have about innovation? What are the frequently asked questions about innovation? We used our AI tools to identify the questions people ask about innovation the most and find the answers. Read on for the innovation FAQs!

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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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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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Idea Champions

MARCH 13, 2018

THIS JUST IN FROM from one of our forward-thinking clients who recently licensed our Micro-Learning for Innovators service. Idea Champions' Micro-Learning for Innovators service provides us with an the ideal mix of easy to digest, thought provoking content. Our creative thinking workshop.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Innovation Should Be Fun, Joyful, and About Playing With Concepts. The One Question Innovation Culture Assessment. A lot of fuss is made over innovation culture. I get it — it’s probably the most important fundamental to put in place if you actually want innovation to happen. Are You Having Fun?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

Someone wondered about the range of topics included in the disruptive innovation strategy workshop we delivered recently. Even though the workshop spanned nearly ten hours over two days, we had to narrow the content significantly to achieve the client’s innovation objectives. 27 Links to Energize Your Innovation Strategy.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 20, 2024

Val Vadeboncoeur is a Senior Consultant with Idea Champions , an innovation consulting and training company that has provided innovation and team building services to more than 100 organizations in 11 different countries for the past 34 years. Vadeboncoeur" is a French word that translates as "go with a good heart."

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Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

If you are looking for a kickoff conference keynote that will energize, inspire and establish the kind of mindset conducive to real learning, engagement and commitment, keep reading. As an internationally acclaimed thought leader in the field of innovation, I know how to spark breakthrough in even the most curmudgeonly conference attendee.

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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. In other words, I practice what I preach.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Writing in any form is a challenge, and increasingly I think writing is very similar to innovation. Writing, like innovating, is creating. What's more, writing, especially stories, takes real creativity. So perhaps we innovators can learn something from good writers. They constantly work at their craft.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 8, 2017

Do You Wish To Accelerate Innovation? When I step into a room to facilitate an innovation, strategy, or idea generation session I always find a great deal of energy. Here are details regarding innovation courses you can attend in the near future, Denver, August 28 – 31. Your innovation efforts will fail without training.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 19, 2018

Innovation is a huge topic in organizations these days. Which is precisely why my company, Idea Champions , is now offering Jump Starting Innovation , a cost-effective way to stir the innovation soup -- a virtual, self-organizing, just-in-time way to increase everyone's ability to be a proactive innovator on-the-job.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2020

Just like physicians, these days, are now increasingly delivering their services via tele-medicine , Mitch is now offering tele-innovation services -- more specifically, online coaching, a way to help his clients clear their heads, open their minds, and discover new ways to adapt to these radically changing times. His credentials?

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Innovation is a huge topic in organizations these days. Which is precisely why my company, Idea Champions , is now offering Jump Starting Innovation , a cost-effective way to stir the innovation soup -- a virtual, self-organizing, just-in-time way to increase everyone's ability to be a proactive innovator on-the-job.

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