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APRIL 19, 2024

Navigating Virtual Team Communication As the professional landscape continues to adopt remote work, mastering virtual team communication has become a cornerstone of successful team collaboration. Additionally, the risk of technology fatigue is heightened with virtual teams.

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 29, 2021

With the Covid pandemic showing few signs of abating many teams are now working part from home and part in the office. You want everyone on your team to feel engaged, motivated and set up for success. Have regular check ins with each team member to see how they are doing. Make Brainstorms Fun. Set Clear Objectives.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Nurturing Innovative Team Collaboration In the rapidly evolving business landscape, innovative team collaboration has become a cornerstone for companies seeking to remain competitive and adaptive. In this context, team collaboration isn’t just recommended; it’s imperative for survival and success.

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Leapfrogging

MAY 9, 2024

Importance of Trust in Leadership In the realm of leadership, trust is not just a soft skill—it’s the very foundation upon which successful teams are built. As a leader, your effectiveness is greatly influenced by your ability to foster trust within your team. Trust also extends beyond immediate team dynamics.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Their talks can be a catalyst for change, encouraging your team to pursue innovation with renewed vigor. By discussing the innovation process, they can: Ignite the spark of ideation and creativity within your team. They bring stories of success and failure that can humanize the innovation process and make it more relatable.

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Idea to Value

MAY 4, 2022

Hal Gregersen , Professor at MIT and innovation specialist, found after interviewing more than 200 leaders in business, creativity and innovation that more effective than traditional brainstorming sessions were workshops where the first activity was not to define problems, challenges or generating ideas. Check your emotional temperature.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

The Imperative of Culture Change Understanding the Stakes: Innovation and Business Growth Culture change within an organization is not just about altering the workplace environment; it is a strategic imperative. Innovation is not simply about new ideas; it’s about transforming those ideas into value-creating strategies.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By facilitating strategic planning offsites, executives can harness the collective expertise of their team to forge a path toward sustained success. Benefits of Facilitating Strategic Planning Offsites Facilitating strategic planning offsites offers a multitude of benefits, from enhancing team cohesion to driving organizational alignment.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

The Importance of Communication in Virtual Teamwork In the realm of virtual teams, communication is the bedrock of collaboration and success. One of the primary obstacles you may face includes the lack of non-verbal cues, which can lead to misunderstandings and a sense of disconnect among team members.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

80% Of Brainstorming Sessions Don’t Work. Redefine Brainstorming and Get Better Results. I might be getting to old to hold back on saying this about ideation, aka idea generation, aka brainstorming. Based on my experience, about 80% of idea generation doesn’t work. Brainstorming is all group work.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. It’s an opportunity for you and your executive team to step back, assess the business landscape, and align on the vision and direction of the company.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business environment, crafting and leading an effective executive team offsite has emerged as a pivotal strategy for fostering alignment, stimulating innovation, and bolstering organizational resilience. Preparing for Success The foundation of a productive executive team offsite lies in meticulous preparation.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 28, 2023

His team found that this training improved creative performance in students by over 28%. While this can be a fun way for fun team-building and teams to spend time together, it is less likely to result in longer-term improvement in their ability to solve problems or come up with creative solutions.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In order to get your creative juices flowing it can be important to engage in creative thinking exercises and practice ways you can improve your innovation process. Creative thinking exercises help alleviate the difficulty of engagement and stagnation when innovating and allow people to think outside the box. Improves Team Alignment.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Importance of Team Collaboration The efficacy of team collaboration cannot be overstated in today’s business environment. Understanding the significance of collaboration among team members is the first step toward harnessing its full potential. Improved Productivity Synergy among team members enhances performance.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 21, 2021

A flow state is where the activity you are engaged in is a perfect match between your current skill level but enough challenge to keep it interesting. Often, while you are not thinking about a problem, your subconscious is still trying new connections and forming new pathways in a process called incubation. Get into a flow state.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 9, 2021

Whiteboarding is a critical part of the brainstorming and innovation process. In this article, we will outline some important exercises that help both provide direction to general brainstorming sessions and to specified virtual whiteboard instances. There are multiple different ways you can implement structure on virtual whiteboards.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Importance of Team Collaboration In the dynamic landscape of modern business, the significance of team collaboration cannot be overstated. Collaborative efforts are the cornerstone of high-performing teams and are critical for driving innovation and achieving outstanding business outcomes.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Online collaboration tools serve as the cornerstone for virtual teams, fostering communication, project management, and a sense of community among distributed colleagues. Advantages of Virtual Collaboration Virtual collaboration brings with it a wealth of advantages that can supercharge your team’s productivity and innovation.

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Qmarkets

JULY 13, 2017

The False Promise of Traditional Brainstorming. In order to create innovative ideas, Osborne suggested that a group of people should engage in a "brainstorm", i.e. "using the brain to storm a creative problem—and doing so in commando fashion, with each stormer attacking the same objective."

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

A dynamic speaker can transform the atmosphere, creating an engaging and thought-provoking experience for all attendees. Here are some strategies you might learn about: Encouraging risk-taking and learning from failure to drive progress. Implementing cross-functional teams to bring diverse perspectives to the table.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 1, 2024

I've been reading and thinking a lot lately about what is described as a "culture of innovation". Culture conflict What's challenging about creating a corporate culture steeped in innovation is the dichotomy between performance and disruption. Therefore, all innovation work is new and uncertain. Answer is: probably not.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

With an abundance of leads, sales teams often struggle to determine which ones to prioritize and focus on, leading to wasted time and missed opportunities. However, by using the power of Design Thinking to score leads, sales teams can take a data-driven approach to prioritize their efforts and increase their chances of winning deals.

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Rmukesh Gupta

OCTOBER 13, 2016

One of the meta skills that organisations will need to develop if they are to flex their innovation muscle is the ability to do great brainstorming sessions. Earlier in the day, I stumbled onto the below video in which Bill Burnett talks about practices that can help you make your next brainstorming session highly productive.

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PlanBox Innovation

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The Most Engaging: Avatar Mode TL;DR: Boost inclusion and engagement by empowering contributors to participate under the guise of personalized AI-generated avatars. Also, here’s a real-world use case about it featuring Bayer. From this curated selection, you choose the ideas that best resonate with your goals.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Understanding Team Collaboration Collaboration within a team setting is a cornerstone of modern organizational success, driving innovation, problem-solving, and efficiency in today’s complex workplace. Higher Employee Engagement Teams that work collaboratively often report higher levels of engagement and job satisfaction.

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Tullio Siragusa

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This section explores how integrating empathy, ideation, and diverse skills can revolutionize employee engagement. Implementation Strategies In line with Design Thinking, empowering employees involves encouraging empathy by having employees engage with different stakeholders, understanding their needs and perspectives.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Setting the Stage for Success Importance of Leadership Team Offsites Leadership team offsites play a pivotal role in shaping the future of an organization. By stepping away from daily operations, you and your team can focus on long-term goals, engage in deep discussions, and forge stronger bonds.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

This approach emphasizes a user-centric problem-solving process that is both iterative and hands-on, encouraging teams to deeply understand their users, challenge assumptions, and redefine problems in an attempt to identify alternative strategies and solutions. It helps teams to observe and develop empathy with the target user.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Understand more about the interplay between strategy and disruption in our detailed guide on building business strategies for a disruptive world. This involves not only setting the path but also empowering your team to contribute their ideas and insights to the strategy.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This means that when proposing new ideas, you can brainstorm more options and don’t have to worry about people’s comprehension of them. If you think about how people understand concepts and ideas when described with words, they use those words to create a mental image of the idea. The third prong of innovation is visualization.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Over the last year, you’ve likely collected a lot of information from your customers and about your audience. Use what you know about your customer’s needs, competitors, and your changing marketplace to determine where your new strategy for innovation should begin. It’s often difficult for staff to stay focused during difficult times.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

It’s about understanding the interconnections within a system, recognizing patterns, and making decisions that align with overarching goals. Additionally, to understand how to nurture this skill set among your leadership team, explore developing strategic mindset in leaders.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

It’s about understanding the interconnections within a system, recognizing patterns, and making decisions that align with overarching goals. Additionally, to understand how to nurture this skill set among your leadership team, explore developing strategic mindset in leaders.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 7, 2021

We both find the value of Divergence and Convergence thinking as not just a practical place for brainstorming but for allowing a conversation to firstly diverge and then converge in different ways to resolve and focus opinions. We call this the engagement- alignment gap. We started with Divergence and Convergence as our framing part.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

I've been writing, speaking and consulting about innovation for over 15 years, and I'm constantly amazed by the different perspectives and definitions about innovation. Then, a problem or opportunity is defined, a team designated, and the proposition is defined as an innovation activity.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 26, 2017

How about trying some innovative and fun ideation techniques to generate better solutions and ideas? Brainstorming. Brainstorming is the most common and the most popular ideation technique in almost every industry. Brainstorming is all about the quantity of ideas and not the quality. Source: ImageThink.

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