Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 8, 2017

Get Training! Inexperience in: the kind of divergent thinking necessary to innovate, in specific meeting behaviors and facilitation skills, and in innovation process, approaches and frameworks. Your innovation efforts will fail without training. Creativity and innovation training feeds innovation like wood wool feeds flame.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Training Accelerates Innovation. Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation . Specifically: No fluidity in free-associative divergent thinking necessary to innovate — people do not know how to think like innovators! And yes, this can be trained. Your innovation efforts will fail without training.

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Idea Champions

MAY 15, 2019

Here's what three savvy PR professionals at Purple Strategies had to say about Idea Champions' highly engaging brainstorm facilitation training: Conducting Genius. Our success as a firm depends on our ability to think about tough challenges in new and creative ways, often on short timelines. In defense of brainstorming.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

It is vital that teams are trained and comfortable with these tools to maximize productivity. Encouraging Brainstorming Sessions Brainstorming sessions are a cornerstone of innovative team collaboration. Managers can facilitate these sessions by: Setting clear objectives for the brainstorming session.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

4 Steps of Creative Problem Solving. Ideate: brainstorm and explore ideas. Creative Problem Solving Techniques & Activities. There are many techniques and activities that can be used to apply the creative problem solving methodology to your unique challenge. The Creative Thinking Handbook. Impossible!

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 1, 2024

Switching on, or switching off, innovation What companies fail to realize is that to innovate means to adopt a new way of thinking, to promote creativity and exploration, to brainstorm things that are likely to fail, to run experiments and test ideas, to gather ideas from customers and markets and to spot emerging opportunities.

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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. Take the train, instead of driving to work. Take more naps.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 13, 2020

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. One of the biggest advantages of brainwriting exercises is their ability to include all participants in the brainstorming and ideation process.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Creative Thinking Can Be Trained. Train Creativity First, Innovation Next . With creativity activated, facilitators like me help others innovate, using advanced frameworks and tools. But without creative belief and culture, advanced tools are likely to fail. It’s not creativity AND innovation.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

For this ability to tap into the “dynamics of innovation,” most of any future success in the modern world demands a proactive approach through constant skill development and creative thinking. Highlight scenarios where accelerating understanding led to rapid problem-solving or efficient training and awareness.

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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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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 22, 2021

IDEA CHAMPIONS: Co-Founder and President an innovation consulting and training company. FREE THE GENIE BRAINSTORMING : Facilitated, online creative thinking sessions for individuals and small teams. Facilitator training program in the works. Train the trainer programs available. Click the link for more.

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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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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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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Organizations spend a great deal of time and energy investing in training, speakers, communications, systems, frameworks, and assessments. Self-expression is the faucet of creative thinking, and without creative thinking you won’t have much innovation. Believe it or not, you can train people to have more fun.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

We are, however, giving it away if you bring us in to train your movers and shakers how to run brainstorm sessions. It's not for sale. We thought about selling it, but that felt like a sell-out. So we're not selling it. Ain't gonna happen.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

Strategic Thinking Perspectives – Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team. Creative Thinking – The Math of Brainstorming and New Ideas. #3 Provide the training, structure, and access to opportunities to best use their knowledge and expertise to drive the innovation strategy.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

We are, however, giving it away if you bring us in to train your movers and shakers how to run brainstorm sessions. It's not for sale. We thought about selling it, but that felt like a sell-out. So we're not selling it. Ain't gonna happen.

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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

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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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

To ensure these leaders are equipped to fulfill their role in shaping innovation, it’s essential to provide them with the right tools and training through leadership development programs and leadership development workshops. Promotes the use of creative thinking and experimentation to find novel solutions.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2020

Thirty years of sparking-innovation in a wide variety of forward thinking organizations from just about every industry on planet Earth. MICRO-LEARNING FOR INNOVATORS: During the past 30 years, Idea Champions has written and spoken a lot about innovation, creative thinking, brainstorming, collaboration, and storytelling.

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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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Idea Champions

APRIL 22, 2016

We are, however, giving it away if you bring us in to train your movers and shakers how to run brainstorm sessions. It's not for sale. We thought about selling it, but that felt like a sell-out. So we're not selling it. Ain't gonna happen.

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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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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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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Collaborative Activities : Exercises that require teamwork and creative thinking to solve problems or develop new ideas. Implement collaborative activities such as brainstorming sessions and group problem-solving. Ensure that each session is timed appropriately, with ample opportunity for discussion and reflection.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 10, 2017

Creative Training Would Have Helped. Training in customer service and creative thinking would be at the heart of a program, but would also need to find breakthrough new ways to serve customers. That training and innovative change program would be enhanced with creative problem solving training.

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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. Simply put, an executive retreat can help the leadership team at your organization or company tackle your own unique challenges, brainstorm future goals, and build a global vision moving forward. Focus on reflection.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Seven Innovation Fundamentals: Applying creative thinking to problems. There is no innovation without creativity. Individuals and teams need to be creative in order to solve focused innovation challenges. Still, curiosity, freedom of expression, and creative thinking are essential to success.

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IdeaSpies

MARCH 16, 2018

It suggests that creativity arises from the integration of three factors: KNOWLEDGE: All the relevant understanding an individual brings to bear on a creative effort. CREATIVE THINKING: Relates to how people approach problems and depends on personality and thinking/working style.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The brainstorming sessions you attend are pitiful. You're not paid to think. There is no one to brainstorm with. A good way to get ideas at work Idea Champions A virtual way to get new ideas Our no BS creative thinking training You didn't get the memo. You are too busy deleting spam. You're paid to DO.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 19, 2020

The brainstorming sessions you attend are pitiful. You're not paid to think. There is no one to brainstorm with. Our no BS creative thinking training Your left brain has become a kind of Attila the Hun in relation to your Pee Wee Herman-like right brain. You didn't get the memo. You're paid to DO.

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