Tullio Siragusa

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Design Thinking for Collaboration: A COOs’ Guide to Cross-Functional Teams Innovation. As a COO, you can apply this approach to increase collaboration within your company by following these steps: Encourage cross-functional teams: Design Thinking requires collaboration between different teams and departments.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Here are some key advantages: Boosted Creativity : Offsite meetings can spark creativity by providing a change of scenery and a focused environment away from the usual distractions. Improved Focus : With day-to-day distractions left behind, your team can concentrate fully on strategic issues and high-level thinking.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Through a blend of strategic planning sessions, team-building activities, and reflective exercises, a well-designed offsite can unlock new perspectives, ignite creativity, and lay the groundwork for transformative growth. Preparing for Success The foundation of a productive executive team offsite lies in meticulous preparation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

To create high-performance leadership teams through psychological safety & experiential intelligence, it is critical to cultivate an environment where team members feel secure to express their ideas without fear of negative consequences.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 23, 2024

Stevie Ray McHugh, Co-Founder of Idea Champions , is a seasoned expert in strategic planning, balanced scorecards, team building, lean manufacturing, and innovation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

This can help maintain energy levels and encourage informal collaboration. You’ll want to choose a site that is conducive to creativity, focus, and privacy. Let’s explore how you can create an environment conducive to collaboration and strategic thinking.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

I was the “interviewee” for an “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence about how to plan team building exercises that create impact for work teams. As described in the article, I’ve been on the good and bad side of various team building exercises during my career.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Importance of Building a Positive Work Culture Fostering a positive work culture is not just beneficial; it’s a strategic imperative for any organization aiming to thrive. By cultivating an environment that promotes well-being, collaboration, and growth, you pave the way for enhanced performance and innovation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the daily operations, you and your leadership team can focus on long-term goals, team building, and innovative thinking. It should be conducive to the creative and strategic thinking that you aim to foster among your executive team.

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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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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Is your organization reaching its true creative potential? The tools for managing innovation can also hinder creativity by being either too simplistic, like a google form to submit an idea, or too process oriented with several bottlenecks. Simply put, innovation is about transforming creativity into tangible value.

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Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Companies are aware that human qualities like focus, empathy, collaboration, and resilience are critical to being able to thrive in times of uncertainty and disruption. Leaders now realize that employee well-being isn’t just something that’s nice to have — it’s an essential strategy for success.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Consequence Impact on Individual Impact on Organization Stress Increased health issues Higher healthcare costs Burnout Reduced productivity Loss of talent Dissatisfaction Lower job satisfaction Negative employer brand Employee engagement plummets, and with it, innovation and creativity. Work collaboratively to find a solution.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2020

12, 2020 – Qmarkets is pleased to announce the formalization of a partnership with Hidden Innovators , a SaaS-based product dedicated to improving team performance through the promotion of creative diversity and research-based methodologies. The Science of Social Creativity. Tel Aviv , Aug.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Behavior Impact on Employees Constant Oversight Decreased Autonomy Detail Fixation Reduced Creativity Frequent Check-ins Increased Stress To move away from micromanagement, leaders should focus on empowering employees, setting clear expectations, and providing the necessary support to achieve goals.

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 29, 2024

For leaders, prioritizing well-being is not a luxury but a necessity, as it directly impacts decision-making, creativity, and resilience. Team-building activities, mentorship programs, and inclusive leadership practices contribute to a healthy social fabric in the workplace.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 30, 2019

The term has since evolved to encompass other types of intensive collaboration events. During the hackathon itself, teams create the magic and innovation, and it is the most exciting and creative phase. Behind the scenes, an expert panel of judges ranked the ideas for final selection committee approval as well as team-building.

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Cris Beswick

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

What is Psychological Safety and How Does It Affect Team Performance Psychological safety is the belief that team members will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes. Otherwise, failure or fear of failure leads to a lack of trust and decreased collaboration between people and teams.

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eZassi

MAY 27, 2022

How do the major companies’ research and development teams build and manage a portfolio of innovative products while ensuring long-term market success and consistent brand loyalty? Innovation Portfolio Management Integrates Strategy, Ideation, and Collaboration Across Resources.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

With their wealth of experience and authoritative insights, they can offer fresh perspectives that challenge the status quo and encourage teams to strive for higher standards of performance and collaboration. Keynote speeches serve as a shared experience that can unify a team around new concepts and ideals.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Collaboration to solve problems is all about culture, incentives, team building, leadership, and more. Design of the session should include introvert-friendly tools (see #9). There is a great deal to say about the 10 Commandments listed above. I could write a book on problem framing, #2, alone.

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CMOE

JULY 31, 2019

Second, we are now learning that teams can be trained to incorporate high-EQ practices into their daily activities and the ways they interact with others. This post will explain the reasons why emotional intelligence is important for team performance, building stronger teams, and collaboration between teams.

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CMOE

MARCH 10, 2021

Retreats can help colleagues get to know each other better, overcome challenges, make decisions, engage in skill-building, or collaborate on plans and strategies. Do you need to give the team a chance to reconnect and recharge? Does your team need to evaluate a problem or discuss a decision?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 3, 2017

Interacting (Networking, meeting, team building). 3 Keys to Team Building Exercises that Create Impact. 16 Creative Ways to Supercharge Presentations. 16 Creative Ways to Supercharge Presentations. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Group Collaboration the Right Way.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Inappropriate meeting behavior that shuts down others, hosing collaborative work. Teams and work groups don’t know how to be collaborative. Yes, you can train people in creative thinking, Front-End-of-Innovation (FEI) frameworks, problem solving, and meeting facilitation. And yes, this can be trained.

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CMOE

JULY 31, 2019

Second, we are now learning that teams can be trained to incorporate high-EQ practices into their daily activities and the ways they interact with others. This post will explain the reasons why emotional intelligence is important for team performance, building stronger teams, and collaboration between teams.

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Values Centered Innovation

MAY 7, 2020

It’s a space where we can go back and forth from constrictive fear and frustration to collaborative compassion and enthusiasm. He wanted his executive team to experience what it means to “manage” the risks it took to maintain industry leadership. Unify the capabilities for innovative collaboration and versatility across boundaries.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A second great reason to consider holding a retreat is to improve team building and bonding. For organizations with multiple locations or fully remote or distributed teams, this retreat can be a crucial event to bring everyone together in the same place (in person or virtually). Innovation Teams within Organizations.

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CREATORS

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The BU does not feel the urgency or necessity to collaborate. Internal innovation is not an alternative to collaborating with startups and other companies. Moreover, it is an important step in building the innovative capacity necessary to collaborate with external organizations.

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CREATORS

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

The BU does not feel the urgency or necessity to collaborate. Internal innovation is not an alternative to collaborating with startups and other companies. Moreover, it is an important step in building the innovative capacity necessary to collaborate with external organizations.

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 15, 2019

And it’s only partially about collaboration and team bonding. Improv schools like Second City and IO Theater in Chicago lead executive or team workshops, and their focus is on team building. There are laughs of course, but that’s incidental to the ideas being furiously written down in notebooks.

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CMOE

JULY 14, 2020

Shawn initially reached out to CMOE for some one-on-one leadership coaching but soon learned about CMOE’s Team Alignment process. The Team Alignment process is used to rebuild teams, spark creativity, and solve business issues—and it can be delivered in a blended, live-virtual format.

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CMOE

APRIL 27, 2021

Why Is Decisiveness Found in High-Performing Teams? When a team makes effective decisions quickly, members can spend more time taking action on those decisions and exercising their creativity and expertise. A decisive team understands how to: Make quick and effective decisions. Why Is Trust Found in High-Performing Teams?

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The landing page we created together brought in tens of thousands of visitors from across Asia, Americas and Europe in 4 months and over 4000 users to share and evaluate ideas in a collaborative session. Experts, managers of Aegon and the team members themselves added their feedback, questions and suggestions for the ideas.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 5, 2016

Shown below are a list of the factors I feel can be major contributors (far from exhaustive), firstly into the soft side of our balance sheet that is made up of culture, climate and environment as our creative and engagement capacity. It needs to address the creative, engagement and relationship part that innovation always needs.

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BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

Dean related her internal entrepreneurship (or “intrapreneurship”) lessons in three areas of strategic thinking: building the team, creating the culture, and defining success. Building the Team. The first step in team building is identifying the rights tasks requiring entrepreneurism.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. They can be too passive, boring, yield few ideas (and even fewer creative innovations), last too long, and result in too much discussion and too little action. How will you hold your team accountable after the meeting is complete?

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