Michael Michalko

MAY 14, 2022

In the same way, if we start a brainstorming session cold with a serious, uptight facilitator throwing out questions and problems to a stiff, conservative group, the chances of producing healthy ideas is minimal. Following are tips on how to loosen up the group to energize their creative thinking. Chastity belt. Never worn.” “For

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future. By removing distractions and dedicating time solely to strategic thinking, you create an atmosphere where creativity and big-picture thinking can thrive.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 4, 2020

We’ll describe how we use flexible business and management strategies to develop high-performing teams and achieve rapid results in higher education. This is a jumping-off point to show adaptable, relevant methods to manage your ideas. In this series of posts, we’ll share our journey in doing just that. The Learning Stage.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Nurturing Creativity and Collaboration Creativity and collaboration are the lifeblood of innovation. Risk Management : Fostering a culture that is not risk-averse but rather sees calculated risks as opportunities for growth. Ideation sessions that use creative thinking exercises.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

And… I have a simple one question assessment leaders and managers can use to take the pulse of their innovation culture. Even at serious meetings? Self-expression is the faucet of creative thinking, and without creative thinking you won’t have much innovation. All this is fine.

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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. To identify this, consider what you do best and how it meets the needs and desires of your target market.

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Idea Champions

JULY 11, 2021

Next time you find yourself leading a creative thinking session , make it a point to give participants, early is the session, a mental map of the process you'll be using. Explain that the session will consist of two key elements: divergent thinking and convergent thinking. questions for brainstorming. His response?

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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

APRIL 4, 2024

It’s beneficial to create a checklist to manage these details effectively. By defining a clear purpose and agenda, and meticulously selecting the right venue and managing logistics, you’re paving the way towards a successful offsite.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

You don't think of yourself as creative. Boring meetings that put you in a bad mood. Your manager has made it clear that he/she does not have the time to consider your ideas. The brainstorming sessions you attend are pitiful. You're not paid to think. There is no one to brainstorm with. Brain fatigue.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 19, 2020

You don't think of yourself as creative. Boring meetings that put you in a bad mood. Your manager has made it clear that he/she does not have the time to consider your ideas. The brainstorming sessions you attend are pitiful. You're not paid to think. There is no one to brainstorm with. Brain fatigue.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. Specifically: No fluidity in free-associative divergent thinking necessary to innovate — people do not know how to think like innovators! Inappropriate meeting behavior that shuts down others, hosing collaborative work.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

IMPROVE YOUR BRAINSTORMING SESSIONS: Most company's brainstorming sessions are hugely ineffective, a kind of hyper-caffeinated Rube Goldberg machine where the same, usual suspects go through the same tired process of trotting out their pet ideas, jousting with each other, and calling it "ideation." Take a shot at it now. Is it working?

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

In Flexible Development and Management Strategies: Intimately Knowing Your Team and Your Product Portfolio, we shared strategies for getting to know an organization from the perspective of those closest to the work. Because we invite all staff members to participate in planning meetings, we wind up with a crazy diversity of activities.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 28, 2017

If you face those types of situations, you know how nerve wracking it can be to have to go from “nice to meet you” to new business ideas in perhaps minutes. In place of only recycling ideas, try these nine strategic thinking questions and creative thinking paths.

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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.

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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.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Next time you find yourself leading a creative thinking session , make it a point to give participants, early is the session, a mental map of the process you'll be using. Explain that the session will consist of two key elements: divergent thinking and convergent thinking. questions for brainstorming. His response?

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 29, 2017

Next time you find yourself leading a creative thinking session , make it a point to give participants, early is the session, a mental map of the process you'll be using. Explain that the session will consist of two key elements: divergent thinking and convergent thinking. questions for brainstorming. His response?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Chuck Dymer co-facilitated a client’s internal management meeting with us recently. Chuck is the owner of Brilliance Activator , which helps leaders uncork the creative genius of their teams to improve products and processes, delight customers, and grow profits. Lemon chicken is specific; Chinese is a generality.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Next time you find yourself leading a creative thinking session , make it a point to give participants, early is the session, a mental map of the process you'll be using. Explain that the session will consist of two key elements: divergent thinking and convergent thinking. questions for brainstorming. His response?

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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. That's not the problem.

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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. That's not the problem.

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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. That's not the problem.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

IMPROVE YOUR BRAINSTORMING SESSIONS: Most company's brainstorming sessions are hugely ineffective, a kind of hyper-caffeinated Rube Goldberg machine where the same, usual suspects go through the same tired process of either trotting out their pet ideas, jousting with each other, and calling it "ideation." Take a shot at it now.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

“Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking” Public Course* With Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. Comprehensive Immersion Course for: Innovation Project Managers, Teams, Executives, Facilitators. Send new project leaders, managers, facilitators, and essential innovation team members. Managing innovation projects.

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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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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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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. Management must keep the team motivated, engaged, and ready to act by guiding them through the process.

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Idea Drop

JULY 20, 2017

From managing your team, to running your office, to actually doing the work that’s paying your bills, even the most repetitive role is likely to involve some degree of decision making. 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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The Inovo Group

APRIL 27, 2020

Big Tech’s offerings – Google Meet (Hangouts), Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams – also experienced growth. Whether you are an executive, manager or individual contributor with the responsibility to effectively navigate the next 6-18 months, it is imperative to be thinking more deeply about what WFH means for you, your team and your organization.

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KindlingApp

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

When an organization decides to invest resources, time, and energy in an innovation program, management is making a calculated bet about their teams' ability to identify and solve problems to grow the business—but there's not always a concrete purpose or hurdle against which the innovation program is supposed to act.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Yael Weiss Efron is an Innovation Manager at the Israel Securities Authority (ISA). Earlier in 2017, the ISA approached Qmarkets regarding the implementation of Qmarkets' platform in order to run an idea and innovation management program. In order to do this, there must be room for creative thinking and for innovation. "It

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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. As Aristotle notes, a city should therefore contain both elements in its design.

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