Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

You’ll want to choose a site that is conducive to creativity, focus, and privacy. Let’s explore how you can create an environment conducive to collaboration and strategic thinking. Initial activities set the tone for the offsite, so choose exercises that are aligned with the overall objectives of your strategic planning.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2023

A sustainability workshop applying design thinking and an innovation process to create vision, strategy and action Recently we’ve had a number of requests for our design thinking sprints, innovation workshops, interactive training sessions, and strategy hackathons applied for the purpose of environmental sustainability.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

These speakers cover a range of topics, from the innovation process to the creation of a culture that nurtures creativity and collaboration. Their talks are designed to provide you with strategies and practical tips that can be applied to foster a more innovative environment within your organization.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Identifying High Potential Leaders To cultivate a thriving atmosphere that embraces innovation, it’s crucial to identify and nurture high potential leaders who can drive change and inspire creativity within an organization. Promotes the use of creative thinking and experimentation to find novel solutions.

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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. This exercise can either be done in person or online.

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IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2021

It’s well known that design thinking is a creative problem-solving process, which focuses on reaching solutions that were previously inaccessible. To the trained eye, this may ring a bell as a common goal of innovative thinking as well. Design Thinking and Innovation. Takes a Holistic View of Problems.

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Michael Roberto

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The Contrasting Effects of Repeated Practice on Creativity." These scholars asked the question: "Could repeatedly 'exercising' the creativity muscle help build up creative performance over time?" But it turns out that to get better at creativity, you need to do some creative thinking about creative thinking.”

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Prepare, Then Brainstorm. Most brainstorming doesn’t work. The literature bashing brainstorming is extensive. I’m going to focus on one problem with brainstorming in this post: lack of preparation. There is not enough mental preparation done with participants before brainstorming/idea generation sessions.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Whether your naming project is renaming or looking for descriptive names, business names as an entrepreneur, names for social media, or a brand identity that fits a brand strategy, we can help you brainstorm and converge on the best potential names. Lastly, this exercise can serve as a teambuilding activity itself.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

This MURAL template is a quicker, more creative approach to mission statements and vision planning. Our last vision template on this list features a storyboard exercise that guides teams to create and analyze scenarios of product/service development. Design Thinking Workshop Resources. Brainstorming templates.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2021

The Lightning Decision Jam (LDJ) is a short design sprint exercise advanced by the team at AJ&Smart that has since gained popularity across the design thinking and innovation space. An activity like this could also be an engaging part of a design thinking workshop. Design thinking software tools.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Acquiring knowledge across many domains is about broad-based learning, and it’s often where big “I” innovation comes from.This allows creative combinations of ideas and concepts from one area — with ideas or concepts from another. The key is to get creative with how your organize your innovation projects.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

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. Icebreakers are useful beginning exercises even for teams who know each other quite well. Why organize a leadership retreat?

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

We have collaborated with over 100 organizations for a variety of in-person and virtual innovation, design thinking, and leadership workshops and events. One of our favorite topic focus areas is helping people lead and facilitate design thinking for a culture (and mindset) of innovation. Design thinking in action.

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Gregg Fraley

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Concepts are taught using interactive exercises and challenges, which make for rich debrief discussions, learning, and integration into real world team habits. Creative Problem Solving Model: Most teams lack a common approach, or language, to resolve challenges and manage projects. Newly formed teams can hit the ground running.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 7, 2021

There are many different exercises that people use for innovation, but very few of them are as effective as mind mapping. If you want to learn more about collaboration and innovation, check out our article on design thinking. Enables Tiered Thinking. What Is Mind Mapping?

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. How to plan and execute training, ideation, strategy, and brainstorming sessions. There are a limited number of slots for this course in order to permit hands-on and interactive exercises.

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Be-novative

APRIL 1, 2020

If you need to bring a group of 3 people, or if you need to bring a group of over a hundred people together and come up with creative solutions or learn through experience, these tips are for you, this is the perfect format. Let’s assume that the workshop is about a creative problem-solving on a specific challenge. Let’s jump into it!

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Be-novative

APRIL 1, 2020

If you need to bring a group of 3 people, or if you need to bring a group of over a hundred people together and come up with creative solutions or learn through experience, these tips are for you, this is the perfect format. Let’s assume that the workshop is about a creative problem-solving on a specific challenge. Let’s jump into it!

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Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

Brainstorming. Brainstorming is a concept generally known. We’ve found a few methods to be consistently helpful with the teams we work with: Blue Sky – Creative ideas are encourage without constraints, don’t let beliefs or even current technology limit you. Which is why we’re proponents of Design Thinking (DT).

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 23, 2020

Leisure is creative. High performance has a lot to do with creativity, and we know that it takes time to exercise it. Promote remote decompression and brainstorming meetings. If you want to dive into this new humane-centric mentality, Design Thinking can help you a lot. Many good things can come from them!

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 16, 2016

Fast Company Article “Brainstorming is Dumb” Misses the Point. Brainstorming, Done Properly, Is Not a Tool, It’s A Multi-Step Process. And yet another major publication publishes a misleading article about brainstorming — Brainstorming is Dumb. Brainstorming as a technique is beside the point.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JULY 27, 2017

And the more creative we are, the better the solution could be. We gather our team around in a room and want to do engage in a brainstorming session. The facilitator sets up the context and wants us to come up with creative ideas that could potentially solve the issue at hand. Has this ever happen with you?

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

In fact, innovation and creativity are cited as being some of the most important skills and differentiators listed by CEOs which will determine their future success. In order for innovation to be possible, a company needs to have the following foundational elements: Enablement: The creativity and culture to develop new and different ideas.

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Inceodia

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

"Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife." -- Jonathan Schattke, scientist. Here are some ways to build innovation skills in yourself and your team: The next time you brainstorm, focus on problem discovery rather than idea generation.

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Kazaks started with a ten minute PowerPoint presentation followed by an exercise where the managers worked through a design challenge that involved prototyping, feedback, iterating, and refining. This time, the workshop inspired his managers and excited them about the power of design. And everyone has a seat at the table.

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