Idea to Value

JUNE 28, 2023

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. So if you or your team have ever felt like their creativity could be improved, training can have a strong impact.

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Idea Champions

JULY 8, 2023

Creativity, Innovation, Team Building, Leadership, Brainstorming, Idea Champions

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Just because creative thinking can be really effective when it comes to the workspace doesn’t mean that your team can’t gain valuable advantages from conducting these exercises outside of the workspace as well. 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

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. Collaborative Challenges : Design challenges that require collective problem-solving and decision-making.

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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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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

MARCH 6, 2024

For strategies on leveraging experiential intelligence to create psychological safety for high-performing teams, delve into our resource on leveraging experiential intelligence to create psychology safety for high performing teams. This atmosphere encourages risk-taking and innovation, essential for business growth.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Facilitating Effective Sessions When you’re tasked with designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning, the core of your success lies in facilitating sessions that are not only effective but also engaging. These activities should be tailored to your team’s dynamics and the goals of the offsite.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 30, 2019

Prepare brainstorming exercises in advance so that your hackathon team can hit the ground running. Over six weeks, a series of webinars and teleconferences inspired team leaders to develop the four ideas from the previous phase. Organize your hackathon with both physical and online space.

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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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CMOE

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Efficient Systems : Each team should build their own routines that they follow consistently to coordinate and combine their efforts and finish team tasks on time. Delegation of Tasks : As teams get acquainted with the abilities of each member, team leaders will learn how to best split tasks between them.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Virtual Collaboration Software Virtual collaboration software is designed to simulate a physical workspace, allowing team members to collaborate as if they were in the same room, even when they are geographically dispersed. Building a sense of community within remote teams is also vital.

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The Human Factor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Team building is hard. . This team-building drill becomes harder when you are recruiting your SaaS marketing team. Now, when you know the core strategy, let’s take a look at the steps on how to structure a SaaS marketing team. . Brainstorm your ideal team structure. The worst part? .

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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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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.

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The BMI Lab Blog

JULY 1, 2020

In addition to the struggles of finding the right team, building the right skills, implementing the right processes as well as developing the explorative way of working. The Testing Cards are a useful tool to brainstorm on different options in order to validate the underlying assumptions of new ideas.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Corporations assign teams without skills or experience, rapidly conduct "brainstorming" exercises based primarily on current opinion or past experience and move as quickly as possible to present a small handful of ideas to a wary executive team. Innovation teams deeply consider customer needs and emerging opportunities.

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CMOE

APRIL 20, 2021

How are their relationships with other members of the team? Are you or other team members doing something that drains their energy? Search for multiple resolutions: Rather than just trying to change the person, brainstorm alternative solutions. Would different tasks fit their personality better?

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Leanstack

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Business Model Brainstorming During the eMBA course, the class started applying Running Lean and brainstormed several possible business models. Business model possibilities The goal of brainstorming is casting a wide net to consider all kinds of possibilities — even some that might be outright crazy.

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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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Rmukesh Gupta

DECEMBER 14, 2017

I am sure that everyone of us, me included, have at one point or other, been invited to join in a brainstorm to come up with ideas to solve a given problem. As a design thinking coach, I end up facilitating a lot of such brainstorms as it is one of the core steps in the problem solving approach. Generate as many ideas as possible.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

The research that says brainstorming doesn’t work studied groups with no training and no facilitator. Training the teams, having a skilled facilitator in-house, and frequent practice of divergent thinking are essential to effective idea generation sessions.

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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 .

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Be constructive In an innovative team you need a safe and supportive space for creativity to flow. You are always sharing ideas with each other, hundreds of ideas come up in regular brainstorming sessions …. if you treat these creative ideas with respect and without judgement at first sight.

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CMOE

APRIL 27, 2021

Because they are willing to take risks, team members are often more innovative and agile than others. Team members can adapt to change and brainstorm solutions amid those transitions. Team members generally rely less on their leader, as they feel confident enough to handle issues on their own. and What if? Independence.

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CMOE

MARCH 31, 2023

Improved productivity: Team members who motivate their peers and offer proactive assistance will improve capacity and productivity because teamwork, by its very nature, creates better working relationships. For example, cross-training and brainstorming sessions often pave the way to better strategies and outcomes.

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KindlingApp

JUNE 1, 2015

Prior to my arrival the team had gone through two years of coaching, training, and team building to establish a foundation of trust. In talking 1:1 with members of my team I could tell they had a desire to improve and test the boundaries of their potential.

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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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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 29, 2017

I often get asked what activities a team should do in ideation to get better results and keep it fun. While there's a limitless list of possibilities that need to be tailored to each innovation challenge, I do have some favorites. Here are 29 that work and are adaptable to a variety of businesses and challenges.

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hackerearth

MAY 12, 2017

The disruption rebels even meet in Spain for a week-long team building exercise and brainstorming, concluding it with a 24-hour hackathon of designers, programmers, business managers, Lego geniuses, and more. Lego has managed to wring sustainability by adopting the Lean startup approach.

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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.

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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.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Solutions: Structured Feedback Mechanisms: Implementing structured mechanisms for feedback and ideas, such as regular brainstorming sessions or digital suggestion boxes, can help manage employee input effectively. This ensures that all voices are heard but within a framework that is manageable and constructive.

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