Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

For this ability to tap into the “dynamics of innovation,” most of any future success in the modern world demands a proactive approach through constant skill development and creative thinking. Highlight scenarios where accelerating understanding led to rapid problem-solving or efficient training and awareness.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 30, 2016

I mentioned upcoming business collaboration opportunities for Brainzooming yesterday , including co-presentations, creating content, and developing new workshop and training offerings. What to look for in a business collaboration? The collaborator brings something different (and complementary) to what we do and offer.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. 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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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Are you looking for training that will build systemic creativity within your organization? The training programs established by this partnership will reach worldwide and will address important matters such as: Problem-solving Decision-making Ongoing innovation. Developing Excellent Problem-Solving Skills.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This might involve rethinking traditional leadership hierarchies and fostering a more collaborative and inclusive approach to decision-making. Inspire Collaboration : They foster a collaborative culture that encourages the sharing of diverse thoughts and perspectives. Decision Making Making choices that drive business success.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

We can be proactive by asking these two generative questions: What if the true potential of AI lies in embracing its ability to augment human creativity and aid innovation, especially in enhancing creative problem solving, at all levels of civil society, instead of avoiding it?

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. Far too often, engaging and innovative meetings are rare and fall short of accomplishing their goals. The top innovative companies in the world know that hosting effective, engaging meetings makes all the difference. Idea Sharing.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 7, 2021

If you want to learn more about collaboration and innovation, check out our article on design thinking. By organizing ideas into buckets they create clear association between different trains of thought, so no matter where your ideation takes you, you’ll always have a clear trail of how it relates to the main concept.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 26, 2021

In this article, we’ll discuss what innovation teams are, how they are formed, how you can help them be successful, and how to sustain them both long-term and virtually with digital collaboration. Aside from collaboration, innovation teams must also fight against a “failure” mentality. What is an innovative team?

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

It promotes disinhibition, reduces prejudice, encourages cross-disciplinary teamwork and co-creation, helps groups with very different profiles to speak the same language and achieves a level of engagement that drives participants to go one step further. For an innovative training format. People are tired of classic training formats.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 28, 2019

Idea Champions has trained quite a few PR and Marketing firms in the art and science of facilitating breakthrough brainstorming sessions. Our success as a firm depends on our ability to think about tough challenges in new and creative ways, often on short timelines. What follows is a sampling of the feedback we have received. "At

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Since 1987, Idea Champions has been designing and facilitating a wide range of brainstorming sessions, creative thinking trainings, and innovation workshops for more than 130 organizations in 11 different countries. During that time, we have worked with just about every industry on planet earth and every kind of mindset.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

Strategic Thinking Perspectives – Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team. Creative Thinking – The Math of Brainstorming and New Ideas. #3 3 Meaningfully Engages and Involves Employees. 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 10, 2020

We need to find the determination to underpin the capacity for innovation, lying within us all, and that comes from knowledge and education through collaborative learning. But that takes many into the realm of increasing uncertainties, and most people and organizations are not trained for this exploration and experimentation.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

In order to do this, there must be room for creative thinking and for innovation. "It At this opportunity, I’d like to thank Ariel Fliegler from Rented minds, who has been accompanying the ISA during the training and implementation processes, and who helped us plan this project. QM: How did you engage users with your system?

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 26, 2022

These processes can each guide us, depending upon our goals, knowledge, and values surrounding stakeholder engagement. A Waterfall variant, ADDIE, is commonly used in course development and professional training. “Agile” and “Waterfall” offer us very different approaches to project management. Core Elements of Agile.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This time can be spent training the leadership team’s natural abilities to support the organization and its goals. Icebreakers can also be used throughout the retreat to facilitate different groupings with creative thinking and problem solving purposes. Top Remote Workshop Software Tools to Innovate & Collaborate.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

A positive, engaging workplace culture can attract and retain talented employees, increase productivity, and even improve financial performance. In our final installment, we’ll show the importance of a positive workplace culture, and the role of engagement, support, and reliability. Increase Engagement by Making Room for Relationships.

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Wazoku

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Many companies are creating, adapting or partnering with others to provide an innovative space for fostering ideas, creative thinking, exploring new technologies and prototyping. These spaces offer employees and related connections a creative space to work, knowing that the time and energy dedicated to innovation is valued.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 28, 2023

It also as well as enhances our well-being and creativity differently. The potential outcomes include people experiencing more positive emotions, increased engagement at work, increased development of positive relationships, and more meaningful and purposeful work.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 19, 2018

Flying in an outside consultant to lead a workshop or training can sometimes be cost prohibitive. You and I have a 15-minute phone conversation about WHY you want to raise the bar for innovation and creativity in your organization. Our workshops and trainings. At the same time, many organizations are budget-constrained.

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ImagineNation

MAY 30, 2023

Mastering the paradoxical nature of innovation leadership requires developing the soft skills to hold two trains of competing or complementary thoughts, or perspectives, simultaneously.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Flying in an outside consultant to lead a workshop or training can sometimes be cost prohibitive. TOPICS INCLUDE: Creative Thinking, Culture of Innovation, Brainstorm Facilitation, Storytelling, Leadership, Mindset, Motivation, Collaboration, Facilitation, Listening, Humor, and Change. Our workshops and trainings.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

And so, in the spirit of full disclosure, here's the back story of The Year of Living Creatively -- a bold, new online service of mine with the potential to make a profound difference in your life. Our third client, AT&T, licensed our Get Out of the Box creative thinking training -- the first creative training AT&T had ever purchased.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Flying in an outside consultant to lead a workshop or training can sometimes be cost prohibitive. TOPICS INCLUDE: Mindset, Culture of Innovation, Creative Thinking, Idea Generation, Brainstorm Facilitation, Storytelling, Leadership, Teamwork/Collaboration, Listening/Feedback, Problem Solving. Our workshops and trainings.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 6, 2023

"If I had an hour to solve a problem," explained Albert Einstein, "I'd spend the first 55 minutes thinking about the problem, and the last five solving it." One of the secrets to having a big breakthrough is immersion -- "the state of being deeply engaged, involved, or absorbed." Translation? Yes, we did.

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 30, 2015

To train a student, an art teacher might have them draw a face upside-down. Your mind will get in the habit of produce and thinking generatively. The more you are engaged in the creative process the more innovative connections your mind will be trained to make. Reward Creative Thinking. Experiment.

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Values Centered Innovation

APRIL 6, 2017

Forging wide-spread employee engagement – expanding available “brain power” to find the right solutions, even tapping into the voice of the customer. Cultivating the mindset and culture for collaborative innovation – breaking down the silos. Creativity is highly correlated with self-knowledge, specially about one’s own biases.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 3, 2024

Yet, despite, in many cases, years of leadership training they are at risk of being perpetually reactive, unfocussed, overcome with “busyness” and addicted to the tasks involved in “getting stuff” (usually the urgent “small stuff”, and not always the “important stuff”) the done.

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IdeaSpies

AUGUST 19, 2019

Large scale problems are addressed in socially collaborative scenarios across multiple subjects, degrees and faculties. While creative thinking is becoming highly desirable, critical thinking is more important than ever before. How is it possible to train enough students to become IdeaSpies Campus Editors?

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2017

This will mean that design thinking will change in the future, into a greater, fuller “thinking” mindset that can be applied to these more complex problems at an organizational level and contribute this creative thinking to numerous challenges organizations are facing today. Where Design Thinking Can Earn its Place.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 27, 2020

Millions of office workers around the world were told to “stay in your homes…but keep on working and collaborating.” more joy); and the potential for deeper and more creative thinking (more productive). It immerses both the individual and the group in new learning and gets the subconscious mind engaged in the creative process.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

Like an unwanted present re-gifted again and again, these articles are often backed by academic studies that compared some quantifiable measure, such as the number of ideas generated by different methods, and found that more ideas were produced by having people engage in something other than “brainstorming,” such as solitary list-writing.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 20, 2018

"If I had an hour to solve a problem," explained Albert Einstein, "I'd spend the first 55 minutes thinking about the problem, and the last five solving it.". One of the secrets to having a big breakthrough is immersion -- "the state of being deeply engaged, involved, or absorbed.". Translation? Yes, we did.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 15, 2017

Out of the thousands of ideas with the power to capture our imagination, the felt fascination for one of them is a clue that there's something worthy of our engagement. Breakthrough thinkers often hit the gravy train by challenging old patterns and then reconfiguring them in new ways. USE CREATIVE THINKING TECHNIQUES.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Out of the thousands of ideas with the power to capture our imagination, the felt fascination for one of them is a clue that there's something worthy of our engagement. Breakthrough thinkers often hit the gravy train by challenging old patterns and then reconfiguring them in new ways. USE CREATIVE THINKING TECHNIQUES.

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Idea Champions

MAY 9, 2016

Out of the thousands of ideas with the power to capture our imagination, the felt fascination for one of them is a clue that there's something worthy of our engagement. Breakthrough thinkers often hit the gravy train by challenging old patterns and then reconfiguring them in new ways. USE CREATIVE THINKING TECHNIQUES.

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