Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

ENERGIZE YOUR BRAINSTORMING. 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. An exercise to illustrate this follows. Have the participants count off by twos.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

To ensure your offsite is as productive as possible, it’s essential to design it with intention. For guidance on the planning process, consider reading our article on designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning. Implement collaborative activities such as brainstorming sessions and group problem-solving.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 29, 2023

Now, we’d like to offer a live virtual workshop that will help our participants learn ChatGPT and how to use this tool (and other similar generative AI tools) in their work for their own unique projects and programs. We will guide them through the learning and doing of innovating with ChaptGPT as a professional.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Increased Morale and Engagement : Offsites can also serve as a team-building exercise, boosting morale and increasing engagement among team members. For guidance on designing a successful offsite, refer to our article on designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning. Establishing ground rules is equally important.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Curious : Exhibiting a strong desire to learn and understand more. Encouraging a Mindset of Continuous Learning Continuous learning is the bedrock of innovation. Leaders who prioritize learning are more likely to introduce innovative ideas and solutions.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Innovation is Learning. For many years I kept the concepts of innovation and learning in separate boxes. I thought innovation was creating new things of value, and, learning was understanding new things. I now believe that learning and innovation are joined at the hip. I always suspected there was a closer connection.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 28, 2017

How can you develop strategic thinking exercises to envision the future when it’s so easy to let previous experience cloud your imagination? 4 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Envision Future Strategy. Strategic Thinking Exercise: Simulation and Role Playing. Strategic Thinking Exercise: Flipping Minimal and Abundant.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Since innovation is becoming a business discipline, training must encompass much more than just the brainstorming phase of innovation. Academic training without hands-on exercises won’t make as lasting an impact. Further, the exercises should require a range of tools and techniques and emphasize collaboration.

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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

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. Here are some strategies you might learn about: Encouraging risk-taking and learning from failure to drive progress.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Through a blend of strategic planning sessions, team-building activities, and reflective exercises, a well-designed offsite can unlock new perspectives, ignite creativity, and lay the groundwork for transformative growth. The two key components of structuring your offsite are the agenda design and the planning of breakout sessions.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We can take our decades of experience to design an innovative learning and naming workshop experience just for your organization. After learning our process you’ll be able to create names, names, names, and more names for anything new that pops up. Lastly, this exercise can serve as a teambuilding activity itself.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 4, 2019

Do the people in your organization treat invitations to brainstorming sessions like jury duty summons? Do people roll their eyes when the brainstorming is over, convinced that nothing new is going to materialize? Past experience has shown us that learning goes deeper and lasts longer in this format. Number of techniques taught.

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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. Conclusion.

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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. In reality, design thinking is a process that overlaps with traditional innovation in many different ways, making it extremely useful for innovative ideation.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

You might learn more than people, or the objects you’re studying, superficially reveal.” David Peat author and physicist, director of the Pari Centre for New Learning near Siena, Italy “Hold the intention or the question. I had heard of a handful of the brainstorming exercises Michalko described, but most were totally new to me.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

One of our finest tasks as designers is to filter the abundance of choice into easily digestible bits. This requires an endeavor into product psychology and the art of designing with purpose and intent. Stakeholders in design. All design has at least two stakeholders. Otherwise it is not design, but art.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In this article, we’ll share some general advice for organizations and companies designing, developing, and implementing leadership retreats. 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.

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Michael Roberto

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

These scholars asked the question: "Could repeatedly 'exercising' the creativity muscle help build up creative performance over time?" Brucks and associate professor of marketing Szu-chi Huang , regular brainstorming sessions are not likely to lead to an increase in unique ideas. Their results proved surprising. Change things up!

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 3, 2022

Some of the words they came up with were people, cruises, creative, furniture, charity, designer, custom, art, thin air, and celebrities. They planned an elaborate, sophisticated evening and looked for unusual items they could auction. They tried the “exquisite corpse” technique. One of the connections was: create—-art—-thin air.

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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. An exercise to illustrate this follows. The effect of this little exercise is quite remarkable. CREATIVE COLLAGES.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Now, almost 20 years later, an increasing number of companies are beginning to appreciate the importance of fostering innovation so that their employees have the flexibility to exercise their creativity, which in turn would result in their products and services sitting at the forefront of their domain. What is an innovation lab? Conclusion.

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CMOE

APRIL 14, 2023

Meeting facilitators and Learning & Development professionals must evaluate these challenges and identify the best practices to overcome them to create the most valuable experience for the participants. The guide below is designed to help you overcome challenges that arise in virtual facilitation and elevate your capabilities.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 14, 2021

When a person is on fire with a desire to learn, discover, and explore, whole new worlds open up to them -- especially the inner world of creativity. Every process, exercise, conversation, Facebook post, Zoom call, brainstorm, and reading is designed to unleash creativity. We don't teach it. We don't need to.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

.” That question relates to something we do all the time: walk into a new client in an unfamiliar industry to design and facilitate a strategic planning process. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. via Shutterstock.

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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. Listening skills are built and teams learn to collaborate. It can augment, Lean, Design Thinking or Agile approaches. Momentum is highly experiential and hands-on.

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 3, 2022

Some of the words they came up with were people, cruises, creative, furniture, charity, designer, custom, art, thin air, and celebrities. They planned an elaborate, sophisticated evening and looked for unusual items they could auction. They tried the “exquisite corpse” technique. One of the connections was: create—-art—-thin air.

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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. Participants learn classic pitfalls and how to avoid them using best practices and emerging advanced practices. How to plan and execute training, ideation, strategy, and brainstorming sessions.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2014

I was able to generate, dismiss, or accept design ideas very quickly. It was much easier to do collaborative creative brainstorming and get dozens of ideas out because my thought processes had become accustomed to it. There are simple exercises you can do in a team setting that will help break down the voice of doubt and hesitation.

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Stephen Shapiro

APRIL 21, 2020

In fact, I would argue that many of our face-to-face meetings were poorly designed to begin with. Instead of everything concluding when the event is over, the end is actually the start of something larger: real learning, application, and value creation. Create shared experiences that will be memorable and will help them learn.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 25, 2019

Brainstorming sessions sound like a great idea, especially for breaking out of creative ruts, but too often brainstorming fizzles out. The main reason for this is that organizations don’t actually use any of the ideas that come out of brainstorming sessions. The key is to have the right brainstorming tools in your kit.

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Michael Michalko

MARCH 3, 2017

BRAINSTORMING BOARD. Put up a bulletin board in a central area and encourage people to use it to brainstorm ideas. You could describe the sale situation on a colored card, post it on the brainstorming board and ask people to post their ideas and suggestions. E.g. suppose you have difficulty closing a particular sale.

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Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Their objective was to minimize potentially wasted time and money by taking an iterative learning approach to the project. Brainstorming and Prioritization First, the took the time to brainstorm and prioritize assumptions for each step of the value stream from dealers first becoming aware of the solution to being passionate about it.

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Qmarkets

JULY 22, 2021

As well as deciding on the best topic for your organization to tackle, it is key to learn how to position your questions. Create Teams Around an idea Another way to facilitate collaboration is to create teams with specifically chosen members who can work together to develop an idea (or indeed brainstorm for new ideas).

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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. Networking and learning from others.

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Be-novative

APRIL 1, 2020

These were ideation sessions for large enterprise employees, virtual Design Sprints including startups and mentors. 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.

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Be-novative

APRIL 1, 2020

These were ideation sessions for large enterprise employees, virtual Design Sprints including startups and mentors. 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.

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