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

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. Daily meetings, interdepartmental collaboration. Brainstorming Methods Generate new ideas, foster creativity.

Team Building 100

Team Building Case Study Collaboration Culture 100

Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Instead, a more holistic approach to leadership intelligence is required—one that includes Experiential Intelligence (XQ). The Importance of Innovation in Executive Leadership Innovation is the lifeblood of any successful organization. Voice novel ideas: Diverse perspectives are shared freely, leading to innovative solutions.

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Leadership Innovation Collaboration Culture 113

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

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

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 89

Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Even at serious meetings? Self-expression is the faucet of creative thinking, and without creative thinking you won’t have much innovation. Self-expression is the faucet of creative thinking, and without creative thinking you won’t have much innovation.

Culture 52

Culture Training Creative Thinking Innovation 52

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Inappropriate meeting behavior that shuts down others, hosing collaborative work. Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. The research that says brainstorming doesn’t work studied groups with no training and no facilitator.

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Training Idea Generation Innovation Creative Thinking 48

InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. We’ve all been to uninspiring organizational meetings before. 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.

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Meeting Design Examples Brainstorming 106

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. And it only requires 15 minutes per week. 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. You (or your designated meeting moderator) facilitates the innovation-topic-of-the week conversation. 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. You (or your designated meeting moderator) facilitates the innovation-topic-of-the week conversation. HOW IT WORKS: 1.

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Learning Creative Thinking Training Innovation 22

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

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

InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 26, 2021

Innovative teams that are constantly challenging themselves to accelerate and create can provide an immense competitive advantage and develop products and services that directly meet challenges faced by consumers in their marketspace. Leadership is also a key factor in successful innovation teams.

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”). Meeting and workshop facilitation. How to plan and execute training, ideation, strategy, road-mapping, and brainstorming sessions. Cycle metrics.

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Design Thinking Training Ideation Course 9

Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Since 1987, I have been facilitating a wide variety of high octave business meetings for just about every industry on planet earth. But when push comes to shove (as it often does), the single most effective meeting facilitation ability I've discovered is the most mysterious one of all: presence. The DNA of the meetings we run

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Meeting Leadership Training Conference 0

Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Since 1987, I have been facilitating a wide variety of high octave business meetings for just about every industry on planet earth. But when push comes to shove (as it often does), the single most effective meeting facilitation ability I've discovered is the most mysterious one of all: presence. The DNA of the meetings we run

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Meeting Leadership Training Conference 20

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

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