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 1, 2018

Sometimes, we get to design a creative thinking exercise that seems like so much fun during its development that it causes me to continually smile and giggle. Interested in disrupting thinking in your organization to boost innovation? Click below and download the FREE Disrupting Thinking eBook. If you do, then contact us.

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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. Click below and download the FREE Disrupting Thinking eBook.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Creative thinking is key. Second, a strong team is needed and they need tools to evaluate ideas. IdeaScale, for example, has robust polling tools, assessment tools that offered a detailed spectrum of rankings and criteria to explore for ideas, and detailed reporting that ensures no opinion gets obscured by the others.

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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. ” – Mike Brown.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2018

We’ve written about the importance of signaling collaboration strategy preferences when you and team members are working remotely. Talking with someone who is struggling with identifying the best ways to signal the appropriate collaboration strategy approash, we hit on a variation on the Sergio Zyman decision levels.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

They requested a follow-up innovation workshop to inspire bigger, further out thinking. We brought two specific inspirations to the innovation workshop: extreme and analogy-based creative thinking exercises. A Remedy from our eBook, 321 GO! If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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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 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

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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Idea Champions

APRIL 9, 2024

Free the Genie for Teams is a simple, online, collaborative process that enables teams to unleash their collective genius and generate breakthrough ideas in service to a compelling goal, challenge or opportunity. They also see how simple it can be to get out the box with the right kind of nudge.

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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.

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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

JUNE 8, 2016

We integrated the Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop into their annual sales meeting. 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.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

We’ve certainly covered the heck out of how bad bosses , toxic cultures , and negative comments can crush creative thinking and creativity. What you might not consider, however, is how an uber-positive boss that is TOO OVER THE TOP when communicating how great early stage ideas are ALSO CRUSHES creative thinking.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

For instance, if collaboration is a core value, open office spaces that encourage teamwork can be a powerful symbol. Culture and Innovation In an era where innovation is indispensable, the culture of your organization can either nurture creative thinking or stifle it.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Innovation in executive teams is not just about developing new products or services; it’s about fostering a culture of continuous improvement, strategic thinking, and adaptability. The integration of XQ into executive functions is a potent tool for driving innovation.

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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. When this takes happens, creative thinking exercises becomes just that many more boxes to shut down ideas that are off the beaten path.

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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 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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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

These programs often provide startups with resources and mentorship, enhancing the potential for successful collaboration and integration of startup innovation into larger corporate frameworks. Competitive Advantage Gaining a leading edge in the market by leveraging startup agility and creativity.

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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. Utilize visualization tools, diagrams, or metaphors to simplify and clarify concepts for a wider audience.

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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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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 13, 2020

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. All you will need is a team of 5-6 people, a facilitator, and your chosen collaborative online tool (or pen and paper for all participants if completed in person).

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

As a result, the pressure for inspiration and creative thinking was always dependent on me. What did I need to do to trigger creative thinking? At some point, God provided the grace to realize my creative inspiration was from outside, not inside. What ideas did I need to imagine?

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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? Sure, there is hope.

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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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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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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. Discover How Online Collaboration Boosts Progress.

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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.

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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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