BrainZooming

OCTOBER 19, 2015

What’s a “pizza meeting,” and what does it have to do with creative thinking? Back in the Fortune 500 days, we facilitated so many strategic planning workshop sessions we gave up renting creativity-oriented offsite locations. The certain way, however, was a way completely of their own design. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We have released a host of eBooks on strategic planning exercises and ideas to increase collaboration, creative thinking, alignment, and successful implementation. Results – Creating Strategic Impact (Download). The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions (Download).

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Developing an innovation culture within leadership requires a strategic approach, including implementing leadership development strategies that embed innovation as a core competency. This might involve rethinking traditional leadership hierarchies and fostering a more collaborative and inclusive approach to decision-making.

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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

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

OCTOBER 16, 2018

I explained to them that no matter who we bring into an in-person Brainzooming workshop, we design the questions and exercises so that EVERYONE will be successful participating. It’s like the secret to creative success for everyone ! Creative Thinking – 7 Keys to How “Idea Magnets” Boost Creativity.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Here are eleven things we do differently to speed up developing strategy: We design the strategic planning process to fit your organization and team – not the other way around. We’ll use highly productive strategic and creative thinking exercises.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2018

Seeing the question about how to boost an audience’s energy level ahead of time (and knowing they’ll want specifics), prompted this list of thirty things I’ve done during my career of designing and delivering interactive presentations and workshops. Move to the Shrimp creative thinking exercise.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 5, 2018

An efficient AND effective innovation strategy adapts to a company’s business objectives, strategic priorities, and team. It doesn’t start with getting everyone together in a room for a creative thinking workshop and expecting innovative ideas to happen spontaneously. Online input and collaboration for greater access.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

Using a few basic posters, we described the strategic thinking exercises, using easel pads and sticky notes to capture ideas. By facilitating the strategic conversations in a targeted, productive way, even potentially off-topic chatter contributed to completing the strategic planning template we designed.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 17, 2017

This transition forces me to formally communicate aspects of the Brainzooming brand, including strategic assumptions and brand personality, vocabulary, design standards, and other elements that have only been in my head until now. 8 Pieces of Creative Advice from a Great and Horrible Client. That’s my creative advice.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

And the asterisk on fun acknowledges we’re stretching the definition of fun to cover things nerdy strategic planners think are fun such as “mental stimulation,” “highly collaborative groups,” and “people that want to be involved in strategic planning the next time it happens.”.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

While it was primarily enforced via the honor system (and an email/text area had been designated in one of the buildings), most attendees successfully disconnected. You can employ the strategic thinking exercises in Accelerate to : Facilitate a collaborative approach to identifying innovation resources.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2018

What a moonshot project yields, ideally, are near-term benefits through collaboration and smaller discoveries and innovations along the way. Generalized Impact: This play represents controlled failure: an experiment that is designed to yield positive results when it doesn’t work (e.g., How can you apply it more frequently?

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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

MAY 24, 2017

What are the different varieties, the implications behind a confidential information designation, and the way executives are using it? How should you go about handling confidential information within your business strategy? It was not a legal conversation (so don’t take his comments as legal advice).

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2017

The audience for the presentation consists of educators, landscape designers, government officials, and others involved with creating outdoor classrooms for children. Tomorrow, I’ll be closing the Nature Explore and The Outdoor Classroom Project Leadership Institute with a comparable message.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Proper communication is the way to spread the innovation message and inspire people to join the ‘new way of working’; to prove that innovation creates value for the company, the employees, for the customers and possibly for the society; to diffuse great ideas and change how products are conceived, designed and built. Measure, Assess, Adjust.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 9, 2018

Vickie Howell is a broadcast personality, producer, author, designer, and instructor in the DIY world. Ultimately, I would like to produce DIY programming in all different craft realms so that I can help other designers and hosts rise. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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