Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 8, 2017

Do You Wish To Accelerate Innovation? Get Training! 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.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Training Accelerates Innovation. 94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. 70% of CEO’s see innovation as a key driver of growth. Why then is corporate America so woefully undertrained in innovation fundamentals? Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation .

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Shaping Innovation for a Meaningful Change Following on from my initial post, “ Our Need is to Shape Innovation Dynamically, ” this post outlines the eight value-adding points that I can help build out and deliver alongside you in different delivery modules to fit your circumstances and budgets.

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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. No two-day training sessions. PS: Idea Champions is not the first company to offer training in bite-sized chunks.

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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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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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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Using innovative techniques can help you develop better solutions to problems your organization faces. One such approach is creative problem solving, a methodology focused on divergent thinking. Creative problem solving (CPS) is a method that encourages you to find new perspectives and come up with innovative solutions.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Build Innovation From The Ground Up. Creative Thinking Can Be Trained. Train Creativity First, Innovation Next . It’s mind numbing all the literature I read about innovation. With creativity activated, facilitators like me help others innovate, using advanced frameworks and tools.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 13, 2020

This brainwriting exercise template can help your virtual or in person innovation teams succeed. 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. What is Brainwriting?

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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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Idea Champions

JULY 24, 2017

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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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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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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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.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 22, 2021

IDEA CHAMPIONS: Co-Founder and President an innovation consulting and training company. FREE THE GENIE : A deck of cards to help aspiring innovators originate, develop, and manifest bold new ideas and possibilities. FREE THE GENIE BRAINSTORMING : Facilitated, online creative thinking sessions for individuals and small teams.

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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

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

MARCH 18, 2017

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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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Innovation Fundamentals for Leaders. Invest in Frameworks, But First, Establish a Culture Where Innovation Thrives. For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework.

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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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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

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 18, 2020

For now, only two of our staff are trained to deliver this service -- but soon we will be opening it up to the rest of the known universe. If YOU are interested in being trained to become a Zoomstorming facilitator (a great way to be of service to people and, potentially, earn a good living, read on). WHAT IS ZOOMSTORMING? His clients.

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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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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. Innovation : Encourages innovative thinking by offering a change of scenery and a break from routine.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 10, 2017

Creative Training Would Have Helped. United Airlines is a jaded, faded, uninspired, culture — that will die — unless they pull out of this lack-of-innovation, and lack-of-consumer-empathy death spiral. Two Points to Make related to Creativity and Innovation: 1.) Just up the ante.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

the more likely it will be that your innovation garden will grow. How would you frame the question you want your creative team noodling on this week? How can you upgrade the quality and impact of your in-house brainstorming sessions? That's why British author G.K. Chesterton once said, "It's not that they can't see the solution.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This time can be spent training the leadership team’s natural abilities to support the organization and its goals. It can also help them reflect on issues like innovation, strategy, vision, etc. For even more content and resources, browse the related articles below and our innovation and design thinking blog.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Some of Michael’s creative-thinking techniques that were refined by his government and corporate practice were published in his best-seller Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity) , which the Wall Street Journal reported “will change the way you think.” The ultimate brainstorming guide. multiple times.

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IdeaSpies

MARCH 16, 2018

Through innovations, the knife was transformed from a stone in a dirt to that useful gadget in modern-day kitchens. This process of thinking that generates or recognises ideas and alternatives to problem solving that are workable or functional is called creativity. Without creativity there is no innovation.

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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. Idea Champions.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 19, 2018

Innovation is a huge topic in organizations these days. Flying in an outside consultant to lead a workshop or training can sometimes be cost prohibitive. You and I have a 15-minute phone conversation about WHY you want to raise the bar for innovation and creativity in your organization. HOW IT WORKS: 1.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Innovation is a huge topic in organizations these days. Flying in an outside consultant to lead a workshop or training can sometimes be cost prohibitive. You and I have a 15-minute phone conversation about WHY you want to raise the bar for innovation in your organization. Innovation Blogger of the Year , two years running.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Based on my 33 years of working with a ton of innovation-seeking organizations, here's my take on WHY you don't get your best ideas at work: 1. You are understaffed and don't have the time to try an innovative approach. The brainstorming sessions you attend are pitiful. You're not paid to think. Lack of immersion.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Innovation is a huge topic in organizations these days. Flying in an outside consultant to lead a workshop or training can sometimes be cost prohibitive. You and I have a 20-minute phone conversation about WHY you want to raise the bar for innovation and creativity in your organization. HOW IT WORKS: 1.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 19, 2020

Based on my 33 years of working with a ton of innovation-seeking organizations, here's my take on WHY you don't get your best ideas at work: 1. You are understaffed and don't have the time to try an innovative approach. The brainstorming sessions you attend are pitiful. You're not paid to think. Lack of immersion.

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