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 28, 2017

How can you develop strategic thinking exercises to envision the future when it’s so easy to let previous experience cloud your imagination? 4 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Envision Future Strategy. Strategic Thinking Exercise: Simulation and Role Playing. ” Yes, the role is different.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

For insights into designing impactful leadership retreats, explore our guide on designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning. This phase lays the groundwork for a successful meeting where strategic goals can be effectively developed and refined.

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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. Back in the hotel’s meeting room, we typed everything from the day to complete a strategic plan document.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 2, 2017

What types of strategic planning activities are in a strategic thinking workshop ? As we collaborate with a client to design strategic planning activities for a strategic thinking workshop , we explore various possibilities. These activities often happen before a group convenes.

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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. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media.

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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. Often, however, executives jump too quickly to flying everyone into one place for a big strategic planning meeting.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 5, 2018

It doesn’t start with getting everyone together in a room for a creative thinking workshop and expecting innovative ideas to happen spontaneously. Analysis, outreach, and design thinking combine to make in-person innovation productive and ROI-driven – after completing the pre-work.

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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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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As we thought about how many of them there were (about twenty), the two of us from The Brainzooming Group, and the value of having an inner circle of informal facilitators, we hit upon an idea: create roles for a small group of clients to play during our two-day branding workshop. 4 Roles to Push Bold Customer Experience Strategy Thinking.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

We have been preparing the strategic planning process design for this workshop over the last month. All of their involvement paid off via the five-part strategic planning process workshop addressing multiple strategic priorities. 13 Ways to Support Strategic Planning Process Success.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Not wasting time is a major part of why a Brainzooming strategy workshop is so focused on effective time management. The moves the Buffalo Bills are making and the associated reasons and benefits match closely to how The Brainzooming Group designs a strategy workshop. 6 Ways a Strategy Workshop Is Most Productive.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2018

I explained to them that no matter who we bring into an in-person Brainzooming workshop, we design the questions and exercises so that EVERYONE will be successful participating. Creative Thinking – 7 Keys to How “Idea Magnets” Boost Creativity. It’s like the secret to creative success for everyone !

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

And the asterisk on fun acknowledges we’re stretching the definition of fun to cover things nerdy strategic planners think are fun such as “mental stimulation,” “highly collaborative groups,” and “people that want to be involved in strategic planning the next time it happens.”.

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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. This design came about specifically for this client. We have a new one of those that we debuted yesterday. In its new form, it’s called Surf-to-Turf.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Is your strategy team tired of the same old strategic thinking exercises ? It offers fresh ideas for using one of the most common strategic thinking exercises. Challenge your thinking about what parts of your strategy are obsolete, opinion-based, and open to serious objections. and it’s FREE! Mike Brown.

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IdeaSpies

JULY 12, 2018

The Academy of Entrepreneurs launched a Corporate Challenge in collaboration with the Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade) in response to the Australian Government Initiative to develop a stronger Nation Brand. The initiative is all about better positioning Australia to enhance our global competitiveness.

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CMOE

APRIL 21, 2023

A 3,000% rise in virtual collaboration. Empathize with the experience from their perspective to direct the design of the experience and make the most impactful changes. Feedback can be through individual conversations or quick workshop evaluations and surveys. These changes include: User increase on education platforms.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

First: the workshops, keynotes, deep-dives and panels were excellent. While it was primarily enforced via the honor system (and an email/text area had been designated in one of the buildings), most attendees successfully disconnected. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 17, 2017

I stopped by the grocery store to use the ATM the other morning before leaving for New York to deliver a content marketing strategy workshop today at the Social Media Strategies Summit. Poor visibility into customer interactions or faulty customer experience strategy design could both be issues. That was the case in the grocery store.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 22, 2019

Influence: A person who places emphasis on influencing or persuading others, likes to collaborate, is optimistic. With this information, you can better collaborate and innovate with others and build more effective team relationships by playing to everyone’s strengths. Follow thru: arranging and designing. The Big Five.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

While we are whole-hearted proponents of fun strategic planning activities , that doesn’t mean every strategic planning workshop we design and facilitate has exactly the same type of fun. And we all know that toys are a universal signal that a strategy workshop is supposed to be fun. Not really; just kidding.

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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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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 4, 2016

That is a great lesson whenever you are thinking about selecting a diverse group of participants for a strategic or creative thinking workshop. Ultimately, business creativity is about creating strategic impact. What mix of creative diversity will drive implementation? Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The relationship between them was integral to the design and layout of the Idealoft. Enjoy the video and Chuck’s insights and expertise on how place influences creative thinking skills! I visited him for lunch yesterday, and we recorded the Facebook live video here. Mike Brown. Looking for Ideas to Make Strategy Planning More Fun? .”

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BrainZooming

JUNE 30, 2016

To boost networking, have you designed name tags so peoples’ names and companies are bigger than the event name (since people know where they are, but don’t necessarily know other people)? Contact us to learn all about how Mike Brown’s workshops on social media and content marketing can boost your success!

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Proper communication is the way to spread the innovation message and inspire people to join the ‘new way of working’; to prove that innovation creates value for the company, the employees, for the customers and possibly for the society; to diffuse great ideas and change how products are conceived, designed and built. Measure, Assess, Adjust.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2017

The audience for the presentation consists of educators, landscape designers, government officials, and others involved with creating outdoor classrooms for children. Next month, Emma Alvarez Gibson and I will be delivering a couple of workshops for the Friends of Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites.

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IdeaScale

JULY 4, 2017

After all, due to the rapid pace of change, the skills critical to your success are innovation skills : creativity, critical thinking, communication, strategic thinking, and problem solving. Most of us didn’t major in “innovation” in college or even have a course or a single 2 hour-long workshop on the topic.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 22, 2017

How can you get the most mileage from the free strategic planning eBooks we regularly offer as downloads? We do not pretend to be able to imagine EVERY single situation where you might apply our strategic thinking exercises. Using Our Own Strategic Planning Exercises. Less than five minutes. And it tastes darn good.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 2, 2017

Is there such a thing as a quick check to determine whether a strategic plan is on the right track or not ? While reviewing mini-strategic plans attendees developed at a recent logistics company customer event we facilitated, I relied on one that works well. 11 Ideas to Make a Strategic Planning Process More Fun!

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Rmukesh Gupta

JANUARY 8, 2017

He is a behaviour scientist and is an expert in behaviour design. Like so many people, I participated in his online behaviour change workshop – Tiny Habits and was blown away by the results that I got from the same. If behaviour design is something that you would like to explore, BJ Fogg is the person to go to.

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