BrainZooming

JUNE 8, 2016

Last week, we presented a creative and strategic thinking workshop for a Brainzooming reader who leads the national sales division of a global industrial manufacturer. We integrated the Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop into their annual sales meeting. 13 Unexpected Benefits of a Strategic Thinking Workshop.

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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

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

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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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Sometimes you think you know best, only to find later that you have absolutely NO clue. As an example, I wrote some time back about the “Shrimp” creative thinking exercise we included during a creative thinking workshop for a regulated financial services company.

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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

MARCH 6, 2024

XQ refers to the ability to draw from past experiences, learnings, and insights to make better decisions, solve complex problems, and navigate the uncertainties of the corporate world. This approach encourages a more collaborative and innovative team dynamic, which is essential for business growth and success.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

This can help maintain energy levels and encourage informal collaboration. Start with a clear opening session that sets expectations and objectives, followed by a mix of breakout groups, workshops, and plenary sessions. Let’s explore how you can create an environment conducive to collaboration and strategic thinking.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 15, 2016

Interestingly, the most challenging situation for Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop success is when it includes TOO MANY individuals viewing themselves as creative. Whenever you have too many “creatives” in the room, it can devolve into each one trying to outshine the others in extreme creativity.

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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. Emphasizing Continuous Learning and Adaptability The only constant in today’s business world is change.

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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. I gave each table a specific focus for identifying new ideas.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

Learn how to make the most of your culture in this regard by visiting our insightful piece on leverage organizational culture for greater business agility and resilience. 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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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. Since we were learning as we went, some sessions worked better than others. Afterward, they had the strategic plan!

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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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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

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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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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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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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

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. After one half-day workshop in the multipurpose room, we were getting ready to leave.

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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. Virtual collaboration and innovation teams.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2016

A New Business Collaboration in Dallas. I think Mess reached out online after reading some Brainzooming articles. Our conversations led to us pursuing a new business collaboration we’re currently defining. I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am about collaborating with Mess! A Chicago Creative Nudge.

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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

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. Buying a new giant pad of paper to map out Brainzooming workshops. Attempting to video a blog post before writing it.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

These qualities help in maintaining the audience’s attention and fostering an environment conducive to learning and inspiration. Objectives may range from fostering a culture of innovation, introducing new industry trends, or sparking creative thinking among attendees. 5 Innovation Workshop 150 4.7/5

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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.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Participants will work in small groups in an environment that encourages creative thinking and innovative brainstorming and prototyping. With planning engaging activities, a hackathon can yield more collaboration, interaction, and networking. Learn more about agile and find agile training resources on our blog. .

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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. NOTE: This is micro-learning, not head-banging. Our workshops and trainings. His clients.

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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

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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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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Innovation Walk

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Originally from Bucharest (Romania), Vlad teaches this creative thinking concept inspired by personal development, psychology, and renowned creative minds. Check out our conversation to discover more about the REframe workshop and Vlad’s perspective on creativity and innovation. co-founder of REframe.

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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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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 4, 2016

He said they learned over time about how to purposefully manage creative diversity most effectively. Over time, however, they discovered that while they wanted participants with creative diversity, it was important to include individuals from groups that would actually return to the business and work together to solve problems.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Icebreakers can also be used throughout the retreat to facilitate different groupings with creative thinking and problem solving purposes. We have facilitated over 100 onsite and virtual leadership retreat style events and workshops. Contact us online today to learn how we many design and facilitate your leadership retreat.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 28, 2023

All of these resource us to be adaptive, to transform the power of our hearts and minds to be creative, accomplish, learn, grow, and innovate through disruption. Because if you’re not deliberate about it you will probably freak out.

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