BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

I was talking with someone who was wondering aloud about how to boost the creative thinking skills of a group made up primarily of fact- and logic-driven individuals. Think accountants, engineers, compliance officers, and others in right-wrong answer professions. What a great (and challenging) question. via Shutterstock.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We’d recommend creating channels for collaboration – crowdsourcing via the web – at all junctures in the work management lifecycle. Let’s break down the innovation lifecycle and consider the options for establishing managed internal and external collaboration channels. Channel : This is the creative thinking part.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 22, 2016

Delivering a creative thinking workshop , I was eavesdropping on conversations at five tables full of attendees. One group was starting to use one of our creative thinking exercises. They should inspire, not limit thinking. They should inspire, not limit thinking.

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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. Force Yourself to Self-Evaluate.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 6, 2017

It is all part of not ASKING for big ideas ; we use big questions that enhance peoples’ natural creative thinking skills. Based on our experience using extreme creativity questions, they DO tend to yield bigger ideas. 5 Quick Tips on Extreme Creativity and Creative Thinking Skills. Here are five of them: 1.

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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. The Results eBook makes our case for collaborative strategy planning among your organization’s employees (and even, in many cases, your customers).

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 23, 2016

What if your fear of being wrong is so great that you can’t even start implementing creative ideas that are just for you for fear you’ll goof something up? Typically, the creative thinking exercises we teach and use are a huge source of hope to get past fears about self-judged “bad” ideas. Is there hope?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 22, 2017

Keeping with the eight theme, here are eight new questions from the Brainzooming R&D Lab to boost your creative thinking skills. There are two extreme creativity questions to stimulate breakthrough ideas from four perspectives: Aspiration, Authority, Disruption, and doing More. Aspirations.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

This can help maintain energy levels and encourage informal collaboration. Let’s explore how you can create an environment conducive to collaboration and strategic thinking. Initial activities set the tone for the offsite, so choose exercises that are aligned with the overall objectives of your strategic planning.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

Sometimes creative thinking challenges come from inside your own head. In many organizations, however, substantial creative thinking challenges come from leaders and cultures that may say they want new thinking, but seem to do everything they can to scuttle creativity.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2017

Short Story: Look for specifics and things that people can actually do or perform to move creative thinking into action. How do you move from creative thinking into action? Two of the client’s senior staff members said this was a question they expected us to answer during the strategic thinking workshop.

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BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

Learning what participants in an upcoming big meeting know, think, and believe before they come together in a large group is one tactic to strengthen team collaboration. 14 Team Collaboration Benefits from Pre-Meeting Outreach. Gaining these team collaboration insights can come through various pre-meeting outreach formats.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

These speakers cover a range of topics, from the innovation process to the creation of a culture that nurtures creativity and collaboration. Insightful innovation keynote speakers can provide valuable perspectives on creating an environment that fosters inventiveness and forward-thinking.

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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

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. Diversity is a terrible thing to waste.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 9, 2016

What are your expectations from a creative thinking workshop? That is the first question I ask the audience at a Brainzooming creative thinking workshop. 7 Expectations from Creative Thinking Workshop Training. ” strategic thinking exercise as a flexible tool suitable for many situations.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We’re with a client today, delivering a strategic and creative thinking skills for sales workshop. 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. How to Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 8, 2016

Our going-in plan for the five-hour workshop was to interactively share and practice Brainzooming creative thinking exercises the sales, marketing, and engineering team could use to expand customer opportunities in new ways. While we did that, an early exercise during the strategic thinking workshop shaped the rest of the day.

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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 13, 2020

This brainwriting exercise template can help your virtual or in person innovation teams succeed. 6-3-5 Brainwriting is a group-structured brainstorming technique that is a highly collaborative way to generate as many ideas as possible in groups within a short period of time. This exercise can either be done in person or online.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Why Do We Give Away So Many Strategic Thinking Exercises? This is why we run compilation articles frequently to help you find a comprehensive set of resources, exercises, and tools. And by the way, here are the most frequently referenced compilations: Strategic Thinking Exercises – More than 200 Strategic Planning Questions.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas. In planning how we would help these companies, we realized there were three possibilities whenever we asked people to answer a question inside our strategic thinking exercises: The answer could show their strategic thinking was in the right direction.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

There are a couple of different ways to apply structure to strategic planning exercises : You can enforce using templates and forms participants have to complete so their answers are uniformed and structured. This means there is no opportunity for productive collaboration to devise the plan.

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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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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

DECEMBER 9, 2015

From a facilitation standpoint, it was the most arduous couple of days of going through strategic thinking exercises I recall. What questions or exercises can I eliminate to save time while still getting enough input in all the areas we are covering for each innovation strategy? 11 Things Running through a Facilitator’s Head.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

9 Creative Thinking Skills to Turn Talk into Strategy. The team leader’s question prompted this list of 9 creative thinking skills that help turn strategic conversations (or even conversations that seem like talking without any particular strategic focus) into something that feels like strategy.

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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. Discover How Online Collaboration Boosts Progress.

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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. Yup, that’s a dirty little secret of creative thinking. What are my pizza meetings?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 29, 2016

Creative Thinking Skills – Some Working, Some Not Working. Amid the odd times, it’s no surprise my creative thinking skills have varied widely the past few months. It’s also fair to share what creative thinking skills HAVEN’T been working lately: Trying to write on the iPad.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

By and large, hotel meetings rooms suck for actually encouraging people to collaborate and work productively. 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.

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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). 41 Surprising Things about Community Collaboration Done Well. New People Coming Together Collaboratively and Effectively. Small unknown group collaboration”.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 27, 2018

So, if you are on your own and need help to generate a lot of innovative ideas in a hurry , it’s a simple creative thinking formula: A magazine with lots of pictures and headlines +. You can employ the strategic thinking exercises in Accelerate to : Facilitate a collaborative approach to identifying innovation resources.

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Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Ask someone to collaborate with you on your favorite project. Exercise during your lunch break. Turn a conference room into an upbeat “think tank” room. Block off time on your calendar for creative thinking. Use creative thinking techniques. Meditate or do relaxation exercises. Have more fun.

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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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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Success factors in strategic planning and creating collaborative strategy were the central topics we tackled on an edition of Smart Companies Radio, hosted by Kelly Scanlon, the owner of Thinking Bigger Business Media, Inc., 10 Keys to Collaborative Strategy and Strategic Planning. Creating Strategic Impact mini-book.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2018

Move to the Shrimp creative thinking exercise. Introduce an ice breaker exercise – even in the middle of the presentation (and do funny riffs on peoples’ answers). Use an exercise where everyone can participate simultaneously. Present while walking throughout the room / audience. Stand on a chair and present.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

We’ll use highly productive strategic and creative thinking exercises. We surround your team with strategic thinking exercises and structure so even inexperienced people will succeed at strategic planning. We bring the fun to strategic planning , so the time will zoom by more quickly than you can ever imagine.

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