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Sustainability Workshops and Programs

InnovationTraining.org

In addition to the special workshops we design and facilitate, we can connect you with global experts and master facilitators who specialize in sustainability and environmental issues. We have some exciting sustainability workshop case studies and examples we can share with you.

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ChatGPT Workshop Course

InnovationTraining.org

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.

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Brainstorming on a White Board: Prompts and Techniques

IdeaScale

Brainstorming is the foundation of any innovation exercise and the foundation for most ideation sessions. Whether it’s simply ideating or specifically auditing a project, we have compiled a guide of the best questions to ask and techniques to use when brainstorming on a whiteboard.

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Naming Workshop

InnovationTraining.org

Create and choose the right name to define your idea, company, brand, product or service with a naming workshop. We can take our decades of experience to design an innovative learning and naming workshop experience just for your organization. Virtual or Onsite Naming Workshops.

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How to structure a hybrid brainstorming workshop

Svava

Brainstorming workshops are powerful tools for ideation, collaboration and innovation as a team and company. Pre-pandemic most brainstorming sessions were hosted in a conference room, using a whiteboard and several post-it notes.

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Design Thinking & Workshops in VR (Virtual Reality)

InnovationTraining.org

Teach you how to design a VR workshop using an app called Zoe Immersive. In the “Ideate” step, VR could be used as a collaborative tool to facilitate brainstorming sessions and idea generation. One workaround is to brainstorm out loud in VR while recording the session.

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Reflection Workshops and Reflection Activities for Learning and Development

InnovationTraining.org

We have designed innovative reflection workshops and training to guide your participants through reflecting on themselves and their experience. Please contact us to learn more about the reflection workshop or session we can lead for your group virtually or onsite.

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Digital Brainstorming Workshops

Svava

Give your brainstorming a powerful boost

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New Workshop Template Release: Brainstorming Pro

Svava

New Workshop Template Release: Brainstorming Pro

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11 Templates for Brainstorming

InnovationTraining.org

These top ideation and brainstorming templates from Miro can be used with your team remotely or in the same room. Interested in templates for brainstorming that you can even use with a team online? In this guide we will share some of the most popular brainstorming frameworks.

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#1: How to Implement Ideas from an Ideation Workshop

Flying Fish Lab

If you’ve ever held an ideation workshop, you know how fun it can be when people come up with fantastic ideas and everyone gets excited. It’s almost like it’s one of the great mysteries in life (or work) – how to implement ideas from an ideation workshop?

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#1: How to Implement Ideas from an Ideation Workshop

Flying Fish Lab

If you’ve ever held an ideation workshop, you know how fun it can be when people come up with fantastic ideas and everyone gets excited. It’s almost like it’s one of the great mysteries in life (or work) – how to implement ideas from an ideation workshop?

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Top 5 Hidden Benefits of Brainstorming Pro Workshops

Svava

Top 5 Hidden Benefits of Brainstorming Pro Workshops

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5 Tips to Improve Online Brainstorming Workshops

Svava

Online Brainstorming need a bit of a boost?

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Five Innovation Workshop Questions

InnovationManagement

The post Five Innovation Workshop Questions appeared first on Innovation Management. Idea Management brainstorming Creativity disruption idea generation Ideation infographic inspiration promptsThere are a lot of best practices that we recommend to our customers: start with the end in mind, adopt criteria to drive ideation, use at least seven channels to communicate with your end user, respond to ideas with positive feedback and questions.

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Reverse Brainstorming Training: An Innovation and Design Thinking Tool

InnovationTraining.org

Learn about this brainstorming technique and find resources below. In this blog post, we’ll go into further detail about what the technique is, when it should be used, as well as share a template and other resources to help you learn about this method for brainstorming sessions.

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5 Steps to Run a Successful Virtual Brainstorm Session

Leapfrogging

Brainstorming is an art and science. Over the past 25 years, I have run hundreds of brainstorming workshops for high-performing teams. The problem is that most brainstorming sessions stop with a big list of ideas. Because successful brainstorms aren’t about technology at all. In a single sentence, describe the challenge, problem, or topic of your brainstorm. Be sure everyone understands the norms for the brainstorm.

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Creative Problem Solving Workshop

InnovationTraining.org

Discover what to expect at a creative problem solving workshop and when your organization could benefit from a training session. Creative problem solving is an innovation framework focused around better ideation and brainstorming sessions. If your organization is interested in implementing these techniques, you’ll want to learn more about this framework and how you can get started with a creative problem solving training workshop here. .

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Round Robin Brainstorming Technique: What It Is & How to Use It

InnovationTraining.org

Find out what the round robin brainstorming technique is and how to utilize it below. We’ve talked about brainstorming and ideation many times before, and that’s because it is an essential part of the innovation and design thinking process. Brainstorming rules.

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AI for Ideation | How to use AI to brainstorm and generate ideas

InnovationTraining.org

Here’s a demonstration of how to use AI to help you brainstorm or generate ideas. Follow along with the video and try it yourself for a different way to brainstorm or ideate new ideas or directions. Innovative Design Workshop 4. Design Creativity Workshop 24.

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Best practices: How to facilitate a virtual workshop?

Be-novative

These are our 26 best practices on how to host your workshop online, and I will take you through it, step by step. These tips are from more than 500 remote collaboration and ideation workshops we have facilitated virtually. Use the tools support throughout the workshop.

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Best practices: How to facilitate a virtual workshop?

Be-novative

These are our 26 best practices on how to host your workshop online, and I will take you through it, step by step. These tips are from more than 500 remote collaboration and ideation workshops we have facilitated virtually. Use the tools support throughout the workshop.

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Zoom Training for Innovating Virtual Workshops and Meetings

InnovationTraining.org

Innovate your virtual meetings through our design thinking-inspired Zoom facilitation training workshop. Our hands-on how-to workshop can walk you through how to contribute to and run a virtual workshop or session through an online meeting tool like Zoom.

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How to Run a Good Brainstorming Session

Rmukesh Gupta

Last week I was invited to run a Design thinking experiential workshop for the STC conference in Bangalore. 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. They came up last week in the workshop as well.

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Facilitate a successful brainstorming session

Svava

How to get the most from your team Setting up a brainstorming session can seem easy enough. Svava’s digital tool makes your brainstorming sessions more fun, and higher engagement leads to better ideas. I have gathered the best techniques for succeeding with your brainstorming session.

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How to succeed with online brainstorming

Svava

Online Brainstorming need a bit of a boost? Improve Your Online Brainstorming Workshops Brainstorming workshops help solve a number of challenges, source new products, procedural improvements and more.

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Are you starving for powerful female leaders in your strategy planning workshop?

BrainZooming

We were facilitating report outs at a strategy planning workshop after multiple teams tackled developing high-level plans to improve various employee challenges in a relatively high-performing company. Chuck Dymer, who was co-facilitating the client workshop with me, remarked at the depth and importance of several of the report outs and the conversations they sparked.

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3 Dimensions of Innovation: the 23 Capabilities your company needs to succeed

Idea to Value

Idea Generation: Generate creative new ideas that address the identified challenges, beyond basic brainstorming exercises. If you have limited time or budget to assess your innovation capabilities, you can do it using a workshop (or virtual workshop).

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Generate Great Ideas from a Cluster of Strangers

Destination Innovation

I recently ran a workshop for a group of CEOs of small companies from different sectors and industries. Gather a cluster of strangers and share this brainstorm method. Brainstorming and Ideation brainstorm CEOs cluster of strangers group ideas innovation suggestionsWe ran the following exercise. Each person started with a blank sheet of paper on which they answered the following questions about their organization. What are your main products or services?

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Cuisine vs. Food: Why Specificity Makes or Breaks a Creative Thinking Workshop

BrainZooming

During the creative thinking workshop we facilitated inside an internal management meeting, participants worked through multiple exercises to identify ideas for internal and customer initiatives. Why Specificity Makes or Breaks a Creative Thinking Workshop by Chuck Dymer. When it comes to idea generation (be it a brainstorm or one of the methods Brainzooming offers ), participants often put forward ideas that are too general to be implemented.

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When Is the Right Time for Brainstorming in Strategic Planning?

BrainZooming

When is the right time for brainstorming in strategic planning , or really any other type of planning for that matter? Brainstorming CAN make sense throughout a strategic planning process. The Right Time for Brainstorming in Strategic Planning. The way we look at it, brainstorming – or whatever you want to call trying come up with new ideas – is typically, give or take, the third step in any phase of a strategic planning process.

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Winning Ideas and Beyond: 4 Steps to Effective Product Concept Development Workshops

Planview

Are you utilizing concept development workshops as part of your ideation processes? This blog post will help you understand the value of concept development workshops and the steps you can take to find out if those winning ideas you have are the right ones to implement. Imagine if the Xerox team sat down to brainstorm the technology’s use cases and concluded that it would be foolish not to turn the technology into a consumer good. Why bother with these workshops at all?

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Strategic Planning Process – Creating a Workshop to Develop Strategy

BrainZooming

Suppose you are on the hook to put together a team meeting or workshop to develop a strategy. Is there something or some place you can go to get ideas on how to develop a strategy workshop? Since this was a recent search topic here, we are sharing our recommendations for ideas on coordinating a strategic planning process workshop. Strategic Planning Process – Ideas for a Workshop to Develop Strategy. 6 Guidelines for a Great Strategic Thinking Workshop.

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Strategic Thinking Workshop Success – Beware Too Much Creativity

BrainZooming

Interestingly, the most challenging situation for Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop success is when it includes TOO MANY individuals viewing themselves as creative. Having TOO MANY strong creative perspectives can tank the actionable results coming from a strategic thinking workshop more than having too few creative individuals. Talking with someone about the most difficult Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop EVER inspired the blurb below.

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Creative Thinking Skills for Sales – A Workshop Approach

BrainZooming

We’re with a client today, delivering a strategic and creative thinking skills for sales workshop. We’re scheduled to have more than 120 of the client’s sales team members participate in an interactive, half-day Brainzooming workshop in the Chicago area. As an outgrowth of the workshop, here is a strategic and creative thinking skills compilation comprised of articles that support the Brainzooming workshop we’re delivering.

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For Innovative Ideas try a Cluster of Strangers

Innovation Excellence

I recently ran a workshop for a group of CEOs of small companies from different sectors and industries. Creativity Innovation brainstorm. We ran the following exercise. Each person started with a blank sheet of paper on which they answered the following questions about their organization. What are your main products or services? List three or four. What are. paul sloane cluster cluster of strangers ideation proudest achievement Suggestions

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The DNA of Idea Champions Workshops and Trainings

Idea Champions

The contradictions that show up in a corporate environment (or workshop) can either be innovation depleters or innovation catalysts. Our workshops, trainings, and consulting interventions help our clients do exactly that. Brainstorm Facilitation Training.

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The tools & templates used in a 3 day ideation brainstorm. (Part 1)

Board of Innovation

Recently I guided a 3 day ideation brainstorm for NGA at their HQ in London. This is the first 3-day workshop of 2 sessions to explore & develop new opportunities for this global HR service provider. The post The tools & templates used in a 3 day ideation brainstorm. 8500 employees, +$850M turnover). In this post I’ll describe what tools we used to end up with a first selection of 13 concepts. Of course I. Read More.

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Mindfulness and Innovation

IdeaScale

Brainstorm ideas for your next campaign. Restore calm and focus in a noisy workshop or seminar. Start a prototyping workshop to bring community ideas to life. IdeaScale brainstorming creativity Innovation meditation mindfulnessThe start of a new year is so motivating. A fresh start, a new leaf – we usually enter a year with a lot of good intentions and plans to make positive changes in our lives.

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The DNA of Idea Champions Workshops and Trainings

Idea Champions

The contradictions that show up in a corporate environment (or workshop) can either be innovation depleters or innovation catalysts. Each workshop we lead and each consulting engagement we commit to is guided by our understanding of how to help our clients find the healthy balance between the above-noted polarities. Our workshops, trainings, and consulting interventions help our clients do exactly that. Brainstorm Facilitation Training.

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Innovation is not a Game for Juniors

Destination Innovation

I am often asked to give corporate innovation training workshops. We select and present the best ideas at the end of the workshop. Despite the assurances given before and immediately after the workshop something has derailed the good intentions. Leadership of Innovation Management disillusionment innovation junior senior training workshop

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The DNA of Idea Champions Workshops and Trainings

Idea Champions

The contradictions that show up in a corporate environment (or workshop) can either be innovation depleters or innovation catalysts. Each workshop we lead and each consulting engagement we commit to is guided by our understanding of how to help our clients find the healthy balance between the above-noted polarities. Our workshops, trainings, and consulting interventions help our clients do exactly that. Brainstorm Facilitation Training.

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The DNA of Idea Champions Workshops and Trainings

Idea Champions

The contradictions that show up in a corporate environment (or workshop) can either be innovation depleters or innovation catalysts. Each workshop we lead and each consulting engagement we commit to is guided by our understanding of how to help our clients find the healthy balance between the above-noted polarities. Our workshops, trainings, and consulting interventions help our clients do exactly that. Brainstorm Facilitation Training.