Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

A positive organizational culture can lead to improved employee engagement, higher levels of innovation, increased agility, and better adaptability to change. To facilitate this, you may want to explore workshops or training sessions focused on use change management to transform organizational culture.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

By highlighting stories of successful innovation and providing actionable strategies, a keynote speaker can empower attendees to think differently and act boldly. Engaging and Dynamic Presentation Style The ability to captivate an audience is a crucial aspect of a corporate event speaker’s role.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Based on all The Brainzooming Group experience in helping clients generate new ideas and innovative strategies, diversity is vital to successful creative thinking activities. For example, at one of our client creative thinking workshops there wasn’t any of diversity to spare. – Mike Brown.

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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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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. Sometimes we use online collaboration within an in-person strategic planning workshop.

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Collaboration Creative Thinking Exercises Groups 40

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. Be very silent (uncomfortably silent) until the audience notices and re-engages.

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Exercises Creative Thinking Creativity Groups 81

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. The First Brainzooming Strategic Planning Workshop. Chuck facilitated multiple engaging, high-energy strategic innovation sessions for us at Yellow Corporation.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

In nearly every Brainzooming community collaboration workshop, we conclude with a Plus-Minus-Interesting-Recommendation-Question exercise (a PMIRQ for short). The open-ended questions in a PMIRQ allow participants to share invaluable reactions and ideas; we use them directly to shape what we do in future innovation workshops.

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Collaboration Exercises Strategic Thinking Brainstorming 40

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2023

It was partly through this conversation with Margot Nijkamp-Diesfeld and Rick Wielens of the Eco System Thinking Institute (ESTI), based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, that we got into the subject of creating different workshop concepts to stimulate those attending and draw out their greater awareness.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Encouraging Open Dialogue and Collaboration Open dialogue and collaboration are the bedrocks of strategic thinking. Transparency leads to trust, and trust leads to more meaningful collaboration. This could mean workshops, webinars, or access to online courses.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Strategy Technical Review 100

Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

This approach encourages a more collaborative and innovative team dynamic, which is essential for business growth and success. How Psychological Safety Encourages Risk-Taking and Creativity When team members feel psychologically safe, they are more likely to take risks and venture into the realm of creative thinking.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 30, 2021

If your meetings aren’t accomplishing organizational goals or building collaboration, it’s time to take them in an entirely different direction. We’ve researched worked with teams all over the world to build better innovative training sessions, brainstorms, workshops, meetings, and more. Liberating Structures may help. Mural’s Kit.

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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.

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Analysis Strategic Thinking Survey Strategy 66

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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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 26, 2022

These processes can each guide us, depending upon our goals, knowledge, and values surrounding stakeholder engagement. It is characterized by constant iteration and collaboration, where the group’s learning is applied to continuous improvement of ideas. “Agile” and “Waterfall” offer us very different approaches to project management.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Icebreakers can also be used throughout the retreat to facilitate different groupings with creative thinking and problem solving purposes. Why are they personally engaged and invested in the organization and its goals moving forward? We have facilitated over 100 onsite and virtual leadership retreat style events and workshops.

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Leadership Design Thinking Design Training 61

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for an industrial company. In each of the five mini-innovation strategy workshops, we had a group of core team members, plus people familiar with each perspective. And how much time do I have to get ready before the next workshop? Are we done yet?

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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.”. 11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun*.

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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. What to Blog About?

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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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Creativity Artificial Inteligence Learning Tools 52

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. Creator of a wide variety of storytelling workshops and keynotes. Our workshops and trainings.

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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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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

First: the workshops, keynotes, deep-dives and panels were excellent. You can employ the strategic thinking exercises in Accelerate to : Facilitate a collaborative approach to identifying innovation resources. Mike Brown Founder of The Brainzooming Group, and an expert on strategy, creativity, and innovation.

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Conference Strategic Thinking Creativity Resources 74

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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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

JULY 23, 2018

Lead from behind to harness & mobilize people’s potential because they know that skills like creativity & complex problems solving are the result of collaborative efforts, facilitated through teaming & networking across diverse groups, often in different locations. Leadership as a way of life.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

During in-person and online strategic planning workshops , we regularly use a strategic thinking exercise that helps leadership groups quickly identify a shared future vision statement. Participants assess where they think the organization currently is and where they want it to be in the future on multiple “strategic dimensions.”

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 17, 2017

She preferred nondescript hotel rooms, away from home, to get her creative juices flowing. Companies such as the construction company Mirvac has separate spaces designated for innovation where people from diverse teams collaborate for projects and workshops, thereby accelerating transformation.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Handbook Creativity 40

hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

The ‘innovation team’ must have creative members, engineers and technologists to showcase real innovation, at pace; the team needs to clearly connect the theoretical, abstract notions of innovation with the commercial context of your company; it must demonstrate how innovation can bring concrete commercial results, fast. IP experts.

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Technical Review How To Software Review Ideation 68

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.

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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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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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Cris Beswick

MARCH 14, 2024

It requires more than establishing an innovation team or hosting a few ideation workshops. As I describe throughout my book, the tone set by senior leaders is critical when it comes to sparking and scaling creative thinking as innovation efforts flounder without the right vision and commitment from the top.

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Culture Tips Leadership Innovation 59

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The process was difficult, slow, and only worked because the consultant staffed the engagement with a bunch of MBAs that did the work for our people. They billed high-dollar hours like crazy, turning a single strategic planning initiative into a seven-figure annual engagement. The Brainzooming strategic planning process was the result.

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