BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

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. Four of the five report outs in this strategy planning workshop were delivered by female leaders in the organization. Here Is Help!

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

We, however, routinely share how we do things via our methodology, tools, and learnings from Brainzooming strategic thinking workshops. Why Do We Give Away So Many Strategic Thinking Exercises? Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Chuck has been an incredible influence on my career, especially as it comes to creative thinking skills. As someone said to me at one point, “You’ve changed your job into Chuck’s job.”. Chuck was the first person I heard deliver an in-depth presentation on creative thinking skills. That was definitely true.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for an industrial company. The company wants to make significant changes to a major production process. During the innovation strategy discussions, we addressed the production process changes from five different perspectives. 11 Things Running through a Facilitator’s Head.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

We introduced the first Brainzooming strategic planning workshop resembling what we do today as The Brainzooming Group ten years ago, June 19-20, 2006. Here’s the story of how a request from a big supporter, then and still, instigated a major change in the Brainzooming methodology. Afterward, they had the strategic plan!

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

Someone wondered about the range of topics included in the disruptive innovation strategy workshop we delivered recently. Even though the workshop spanned nearly ten hours over two days, we had to narrow the content significantly to achieve the client’s innovation objectives. Disrupting Thinking. The reason?

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The week included: Large scale community collaboration workshops – Nearly eighty students from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale gathered Monday night and a comparable number of Carbondale, IL residents assembled on Tuesday for community collaboration workshops to imagine the community’s future with Gigabit Internet capabilities.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 6, 2016

We’re developing a strategic thinking webinar for a client on cultivating and sustaining creativity among its salesforce. Since the webinar is with the organization’s sales leadership, the focus is on creative thinking skills they can and should be embracing to help their salespeople see opportunities in new ways.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

These retreats are not merely a change of scenery but a strategic move to foster innovation and alignment among the top decision-makers of your company. Start with a clear opening session that sets expectations and objectives, followed by a mix of breakout groups, workshops, and plenary sessions.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I’ll be presenting on social media super models , followed by a VERY QUICK creative thinking exercises for sales presentation. The creative thinking exercises for sales content is a different take on both familiar and some new creative thinking topics. Can You Change Your Look?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2018

We have a call with a client about an upcoming Brainzooming innovation workshop. One question (which we think MAY have been included by mistake on the list of topics they sent us) is what we do when energy is diminishing during a workshop. Move to the Shrimp creative thinking exercise. Photo via Shutterstock.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 14, 2017

The question got me thinking about specific strategic planning questions we use to liven up strategic thinking. 3 Short, Funny Strategic Planning Questions. Here are three opportunities to challenge typical roadblocks to innovation and new strategic ideas: 1. Give Conventional Expectations the Heave Ho.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

” A participant shared that in an experience strategy workshop. . His comment got me thinking: How much of what we do is based around right now, when it REALLY should be oriented toward getting ready for whatever is next ? Depending on the answer, an Idea Magnet realizes you may need to make a big change to ever make progress.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 5, 2018

It doesn’t start with getting everyone together in a room for a creative thinking workshop and expecting innovative ideas to happen spontaneously. Analysis, outreach, and design thinking combine to make in-person innovation productive and ROI-driven – after completing the pre-work. More Posts - Website Follow Me:

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

It was about fully-formed answers with no real support to help business and marketing managers do the strategic thinking to develop their strategies. They billed high-dollar hours like crazy, turning a single strategic planning initiative into a seven-figure annual engagement.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Innovation in executive teams is not just about developing new products or services; it’s about fostering a culture of continuous improvement, strategic thinking, and adaptability. Adaptability : An ability to pivot and respond to changing market conditions and business needs.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 4, 2016

What mix of creative diversity will drive implementation? That is a great lesson whenever you are thinking about selecting a diverse group of participants for a strategic or creative thinking workshop. Ultimately, business creativity is about creating strategic impact. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 6, 2016

And are the priorities you pick the same strategic priorities you said you’d emphasize when it was time earlier in the year for strategic thinking? Nearing last year’s close, I thought we knew specific changes in the make-up of The Brainzooming Group. Then things changed. Marianne Carr took another role.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

“Buy in from staff on the new vision and the required change” 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto. Creative Thinking Skills – 5 People Vital to Critical Thinking, Literally. Strategic Planning Process. 5 Keys to Streamlining Strategic Planning. Innovation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future. By removing distractions and dedicating time solely to strategic thinking, you create an atmosphere where creativity and big-picture thinking can thrive.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 21, 2016

When we were developing the Brainzooming strategic planning process inside a Fortune 500 company, we used it to plan strategy across a whole portfolio of services and clients in a B2B setting. I spent many late nights modifying each workshop format to change them enough to keep the participants (and me) engaged, mentally sharp, and creative.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We’re big proponents of the value of bringing together a diverse group of people with varied creative thinking skills for strategic planning workshops within organizations and communities. Often, however, executives jump too quickly to flying everyone into one place for a big strategic planning meeting.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 12, 2017

Occasionally, someone participating in a strategy workshop filled with innovative ideas will complain that a lot, or maybe all (REALLY? Other times it means giving old ideas a new day and putting solid tactics and strategic project management planning behind them to move them from ideas to implementation. Scarce resources ?

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Most of the time we have to go well beyond what hotels consider standard ways groups will use their meeting rooms when we’re trying to create an effective space for a Brainzooming creative thinking workshop. Last Minute Changes to Boost Collaboration. Related posts Change the Room Around!

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BrainZooming

MAY 11, 2016

“Let’s start with a clean sheet of paper to boost creativity.”. Talking with a potential client about an already-planned innovation strategy workshop, the going-in innovation strategy called for giving participants “a clean sheet of paper.”. The workshop is already planned, so postponing it to readjust the approach isn’t an option.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Here’s an alternative approach we use all the time during strategic conversations: listen for specific types of comments and organize them as you go (or after the fact) into strategic deliverables. For example, before a strategic planning workshop started the other day, an internal client leader held court with the project team.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2017

Next month, Emma Alvarez Gibson and I will be delivering a couple of workshops for the Friends of Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites. The message will once again be similar: carrying out your mission when times are changing in ways you have not previously experienced. 25 Infinitely Renewable Things in Uncertain Times.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 2, 2016

Do you suppose it is fear of change? We were leading a creative thinking workshop for a subsidiary of a German-owned, privately-held company. If your organization is routinely coming up against fears of change that slow (or undermine) innovation, the new Brainzooming eBook is for you.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2016

We collaborate online frequently, and Emma co-facilitated an in-person workshop we did for CompTIA in San Diego several years ago. We tackle: Whether facts or emotional appeals are ideal to challenge fear of innovation-driven change. I met Emma in 2009 via an introduction from Jan Harness.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

This requires a talented ‘innovation team’ – the right synthesis of strategists, technologists, and communicators - to lead this fundamental change and operate at the core of the ‘innovation machine’; to introduce the new culture , to inspire teams and drive innovation by example. Team Responsibilities. Measure, Assess, Adjust. Strategists.

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