Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Setting the Stage for Success In the ever-evolving business landscape, executive team offsites have become a cornerstone for strategic planning and decision-making. By stepping away from the daily operations, you and your leadership team can focus on long-term goals, team building, and innovative thinking.

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Innovation in Practice

JANUARY 12, 2018

When thinking about creativity in teams, we often imagine a bunch of people in front of a flipchart throwing on the paper whatever comes to their mind – brainstorming. But, what actually is brainstorming? This is why: most ideas produced during brainstorming sessions don’t work in reality, because of a lack of essential filters.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Improves Team Alignment. Creative thinking exercises are sometimes done with a group and sometimes individually. Regardless of how they’re done, they provide a shared method of ideation for your whole team. To begin, we’ll highlight some team-building exercises to conduct with your team just for fun.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Start with a clear opening session that sets expectations and objectives, followed by a mix of breakout groups, workshops, and plenary sessions. Icebreakers and Team Building Activities Kickstarting your offsite with icebreakers and team-building exercises is a strategic move to warm up the group.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 23, 2024

Stevie Ray McHugh, Co-Founder of Idea Champions , is a seasoned expert in strategic planning, balanced scorecards, team building, lean manufacturing, and innovation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Engagement : Increases engagement and ownership among team members by involving them in the strategic process. Team Building : Strengthens relationships and improves communication among team members. Use targeted questions to draw out quieter members of the team.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 30, 2019

Prepare brainstorming exercises in advance so that your hackathon team can hit the ground running. Allianz, the world’s largest insurance company and financial services group, organized a hackathon after bringing together several existing Allianz operations to form Allianz Worldwide Partners (AWP).

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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. A second great reason to consider holding a retreat is to improve team building and bonding. Focus on reflection.

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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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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Teams and work groups don’t know how to be collaborative. The research that says brainstorming doesn’t work studied groups with no training and no facilitator. Specifically: No fluidity in free-associative divergent thinking necessary to innovate — people do not know how to think like innovators!

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Peer Insight

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Here are six affordable steps you and your team can take tomorrow to accelerate your time to market: 1. Framing facilitates decision-making and helps to align broader teams, build confidence, and make decisions with leadership. Clearly frame the objective and guardrails . There might be 43 of them.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Empowering their teams with technology and creative tools that guide their brainstorming sessions goes a long way in changing the outcome. If you’re interested in running more effective, innovative meetings with your team, you’ve come to the right place. You can bring the facilitation power to your own brainstorming session!

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CMOE

APRIL 27, 2021

Why Is Confidence Found in High-Performing Teams? When you have a group of confident people, you have a team that is motivated, ambitious, and happy. Because they are willing to take risks, team members are often more innovative and agile than others. People are focused on the group rather than personal success.

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CMOE

MARCH 31, 2023

By moving from self-interest to a group-interest mindset, individual members are empowered to work collaboratively under a common purpose to reach success. Better problem solving: Empirical research illustrates that teams perform better than a group of individuals working alone. These help to build and bond the team.

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KindlingApp

JUNE 1, 2015

I instantly knew that the book contained the foundation of the culture I would hope to build in MidAmerica—my only question was whether the MidAmerica team was ready for it. Prior to my arrival the team had gone through two years of coaching, training, and team building to establish a foundation of trust.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

These desired learning outcomes were addressed during the four-hour workshop where culture change, strategy and methods of brainstorming and communicating, and other topics were focused in with action. It’s not typical to how most people are usually brainstorming and having meetings in an office. Use what the experts are doing.

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hackerearth

MAY 12, 2017

As Business Analyst Mark McQueen, said, “Knudstorp quickly identified that the Lego group had over-innovated, spread itself far too thin and had launched so many new initiatives that the company had lost a ‘crisp sense of identity. It was a case of too many products and not enough profit.”

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Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

These meetings have been variably referred to as leadership development programs, creative thinking trainings, innovation workshops, team building off sites, brainstorming sessions, strategic planning pow wows, senior team retreats, annual conferences, and business simulations. The good news? Idea Champions.

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Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

These meetings have been variably referred to as leadership development programs, creative thinking trainings, innovation workshops, team building off sites, brainstorming sessions, strategic planning pow wows, senior team retreats, annual conferences, and business simulations. The good news? Idea Champions.

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