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. You’ll want to choose a site that is conducive to creativity, focus, and privacy.

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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

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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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 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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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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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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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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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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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

We have collaborated with over 100 organizations for a variety of in-person and virtual innovation, design thinking, and leadership workshops and events. Leading Innovation – In-Person Design Thinking Facilitation Workshop. Facilitating workshops. Building better teams. Lead change. Be relatable.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Encouraging creativity and experimentation among your team members can lead to breakthroughs that keep your company on the cutting edge. Establish ‘innovation labs’ or ‘hackathons’ to tackle challenges creatively. To foster innovation: Implement systems for employees to submit and develop new ideas.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This shift not only democratizes the organizational process but also nurtures a culture rich in collaboration, innovation, and shared responsibility. Diverse Perspectives and Innovation: A bottom-up approach brings diverse viewpoints to the table, fostering innovation and creative problem-solving.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 3, 2017

Yesterday, we identified the six types of strategic planning process activities we use to design a client’s strategic thinking workshop. To facilitate you going deeper into thinking about how these activities function within a strategic planning process workshop, here are articles in each of the six areas.

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 15, 2019

I just completed another workshop for high level executives in the use of Improv for Problem Solving. In this week’s workshop the skeptics were won over in the first 20 minutes. And it’s only partially about collaboration and team bonding. Improv is a Swiss Army Knife for Problem Solving.

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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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Open Innovation Innovation Culture Collaboration 52

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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CMOE

MARCH 31, 2023

How the team works together determines the ability of the team, department, and organization to deliver results and create value for all stakeholders. Individually, we might accomplish the task, but by working collaboratively under a single purpose, the team can reach new heights and success.

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