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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BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

Learning what participants in an upcoming big meeting know, think, and believe before they come together in a large group is one tactic to strengthen team collaboration. 14 Team Collaboration Benefits from Pre-Meeting Outreach. Gaining these team collaboration insights can come through various pre-meeting outreach formats.

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

At the end of the day, people should meet and ask each other what they did differently and better than it was the day before. Brainstorming Board Put up a bulletin board in a central area and encourage people to use it to brainstorm ideas. Each time a person comes up with a creative idea, he or she receives a ticket.

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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. Team disagreements, project challenges.

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

At the end of the day, people should meet and ask each other what they did differently and better than it was the day before. Brainstorming Board Put up a bulletin board in a central area and encourage people to use it to brainstorm ideas. Each time a person comes up with a creative idea, he or she receives a ticket.

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Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Find the most creative people at work and ask for their ideas. Brainstorm daily with a co-worker. Go for a daily brainstorming walk. Invite your customers and vendors to brainstorming sessions. Think of five other ways to define your challenge. Assign a “fun fairy” to each of your meetings. Have more fun.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Communication Method Purpose Instant Messaging Quick queries and updates Video Conferencing In-depth discussions and meetings Collaborative Workspaces Ongoing project collaboration To delve deeper into creating effective communication channels within your team, consider reading about team collaboration best practices.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

At the end of the day, people should meet and ask each other what they did differently and better than it was the day before. BRAINSTORMING BOARD Put up a bulletin board in a central area and encourage people to use it to brainstorm ideas. Each time a person comes up with a creative idea, he or she receives a ticket.

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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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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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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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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. Innovative Innovation Meetings: Formats, Designs, and Examples. 11 Templates for Brainstorming.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 30, 2021

Find Liberating Structures training resources and templates to get started with these unique innovative meeting methods. Designing and facilitating innovative meetings with your team can be pressure-filled and time-consuming. Liberating structures is a selection of 33 alternative structures for hosting and facilitating meetings.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 13, 2024

Because we want to increase the odds of people actively participating in the creative thinking process. hours (two 90-minute FTG brainstorming sessions and 30 minutes of pre-work). Can we still use Free the Genie? Yes, but only four people can participate at one time. Why only four? Total time for pre-work: 15-30 minutes.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Nurturing Creativity and Collaboration Creativity and collaboration are the lifeblood of innovation. These can range from strategies for brainstorming to methods of implementing a new idea within a corporate structure. Ideation sessions that use creative thinking exercises.

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Michael Michalko

MARCH 3, 2017

At the end of the day, people should meet and ask each other what they did differently and better than it was the day before. BRAINSTORMING BOARD. Put up a bulletin board in a central area and encourage people to use it to brainstorm ideas. Each time a person comes up with a creative idea, he or she receives a ticket.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Brainstorming and even daydreaming may play a role in innovation, but practicality is required to bring innovative ideas to life. ?. In fact, if you think about it, innovations quite often make the practical aspects of life better. Implementing innovations is where the rubber meets the road. Implement innovations.

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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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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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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.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 8, 2017

Inexperience in: the kind of divergent thinking necessary to innovate, in specific meeting behaviors and facilitation skills, and in innovation process, approaches and frameworks. Yes, you can train people in creative thinking, Front-End-of-Innovation (FEI) frameworks, and in meeting facilitation.

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 3, 2022

Days after the meeting Karl was thinking about the words fur, covering and clothing. This got him thinking about synthetics, including polymers that make clothing, which triggered his idea to create intelligent polymer seed coatings, which shift properties as conditions change. They laughed at the image.

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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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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Fostering Collaboration and Creativity The synergy of your leadership team can be amplified through activities that nurture teamwork and creative thinking. Here’s how you can facilitate a collaborative atmosphere: Design Thinking Workshops: Use these to challenge assumptions and create solutions to complex problems.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When you are brainstorming for ideas and have a thought, the value of that thought depends upon how you interact with it. If you are an analytical thinker and automatically classify many of your thoughts as irrelevant or unrelated, you are crippling your potential for creative ideas and solutions. Can you create a new pillow?

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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. The brainstorming sessions you attend are pitiful. You're not paid to think. What you think of as a great idea and what your manager thinks of as a great idea are two entirely different things. Sleep deprivation.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

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. You’ll see immediate results with creativity, innovation, and facilitation training.

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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. The brainstorming sessions you attend are pitiful. You're not paid to think. What you think of as a great idea and what your manager thinks of as a great idea are two entirely different things. Sleep deprivation.

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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

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. IT'S FUN: There's enough density, darkness, and boring Zoom meetings in the world these days. We need to be heard.

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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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Idea Champions

APRIL 6, 2023

We brainstormed, blue-skied, dialogued, role played, invented, read, sang, stretched, drank coffee, wine, the crisp Colorado air, and whatever else it took to free ourselves from the gravity of what we already knew. Rube Goldberg meets Fellini. We walked our talk. We noodled. We conjured. The floors? Yes, we did.

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