BrainZooming

AUGUST 1, 2016

If you’ve been a Brainzooming reader for any length of time, you know we’re huge proponents of collaborative strategic planning. Collaborative planning implies a process that goes beyond the board room to include individuals throughout the organization in meaningful ways to provide insights and input to shape organizational strategy.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2016

It may be an old and tired story, but it still illustrates an important point about engagement and the willingness (or unwillingness) of employees to go all in with a new business initiative. The thing is, unsuccessful employee engagement strategies are not an employee problem. – Mike Brown. – Mike Brown.

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Planview

AUGUST 16, 2023

Therefore, it preaches the importance of attracting and retaining top talent by fostering a culture of continuous learning and providing a voice to employees, particularly when addressing technical debt. Optimizing Flow Distribution ® is a way to significantly improve work culture and employee engagement.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

From the start, we have emphasized making strategic planning simple, engaging, and fun. They want to collaborate now and in the future. For those of you interested in learning more and about how you can start Brainzooming for yourself, your team, and your organization, we’ve expanded the available resources over the years.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2017

From before the engagement’s launch until near the completion, we asked for strategy documents spelling out corporate priorities, objectives, and expectations. This situation prompted sketching two strategic planning process approaches (narrow or broad collaboration) and alternatives for how an organization communicates its strategy.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 14, 2017

Ideally, though, you want some latitude to design your strategic planning process to create an experience that will be both productive and engaging for participants. Another benefit of starting early and soliciting ideas from stakeholders is your learnings can shape the structure and content of your strategic plan. via Shutterstock.

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Acuvate

JANUARY 20, 2019

Modern Digital Workplace: Modern digital workplace has changed the face of communication and collaboration between employees working at various levels of an organization. So why are many organizations struggling to build a useful, engaging intranet environment? Learn More: A buyer’s guide to choosing the best intranet software.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2017

Step 1: Select 10 to 15 very successful engagements. Also, select 10 to 15 unsuccessful (or less successful) engagements. What talents, perspectives, energy, engagement, and activities did each person and group contribute to the process? too much oversight or not enough engagement)? comparable engagements)?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 1, 2021

In light of that, the Brainzooming team wants to share with you our learnings and thinking on the next generation of successful business meetings. What have we learned about meetings throughout this singularly disruptive period of time? We are all approaching one year of personal, business, and global disruption from the pandemic.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Lesson learned. Want to learn more about that process? Create the Vision to Align and Engage Your Team! Our free “Big Strategy Statements” eBook lays out an approach to collaboratively develop smart, strategic directions that improve results!

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BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

Someone downloaded a free Brainzooming strategy eBook, noting his biggest strategy challenge is “how to do a strategic planning process when you are new.” 10 Lessons to Engage Employees and Drive Improved Results. Actively engage more employees in strategy AND implementation success. via Shutterstock.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2018

I learned that lesson when I was on the client side and first put competitive marketing agencies together on project teams. It becomes clear quickly if a partner isn’t engaging with the best intentions. Download the Brainzooming eBook on social-first content strategy. That’s an early indicator of big problems.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

3 Meaningfully Engages and Involves Employees. 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto. 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto. 5 Employee Engagement Ideas When Turnover Is High. Creative Thinking – The Math of Brainstorming and New Ideas. #3

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Want to hang out with some of the Brainzooming crew in San Francisco next week and learn all kinds of valuable information on content marketing, social media, marketing strategy, and branding? I’ll be doing workshops on content marketing and collaborative branding strategy. D ownload Your Free Internal Branding Strategy eBook!

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

A couple of online collaboration Zoomference workshop s (to engage the leadership team without them having to travel). We asked the two executives if they knew the best strategic answer already, or whether collaborative strategy input should shape the answer. In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! ,

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2017

The topic was trust, and how people that grew up in negative home environments with crappy parents can learn to trust and not trust the right people. Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. This Brainzooming strategy eBook features links to 600 proven questions for: Developing Strategy.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

You’ll help others and learn a lot. Create the Vision to Align and Engage Your Team! Our free “Big Strategy Statements” eBook lays out an approach to collaboratively develop smart, strategic directions that improve results! Always know who you can trust.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

That means it’s perfect for: Learning new approaches. Here are early reactions relative to how we’d facilitate a collaborative strategic planning process at The Brainzooming Group. Engaging a Big Group of Participants – It’s fantastic to reach out to seventy volunteers to participate in strategy planning. Via Shutterstock.

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Inceodia

JANUARY 27, 2019

In the fourth industrial revolution, the skills in highest demand are understanding, collaborating and communicating with the humans we interact with, the people our business serves. And beyond the desire for business growth, employees who are encouraged to innovate and problem solve are more engaged and happier with their work.

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Planview

AUGUST 2, 2023

To address these issues, forming teams and ARTs with the necessary knowledge, skills, and authority to work collaboratively and ensure a smooth and uninterrupted flow of value throughout the process is crucial. These situations lead to wasted time and effort and potential errors due to incomplete knowledge transfer.

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Inceodia

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Finally, they need to be great collaborators, because above all else, innovation is a team sport. The good news is these innovation skills are something that can and should be learned more through applied knowledge than formal learning. Take an introductory design thinking course from Stanford’s d.School, IDEO or Acumen.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

Even cynical types were openly surprised at the insights and learnings. It was what I’d imagined, as a child, that college would be like: a big group of friendly people who are genuinely excited about learning and doing good in the world. One woman said, “I don’t believe I’ve ever used this word before, but I feel so…enriched!”

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BrainZooming

MARCH 15, 2017

After every idea is placed, the group engages in a strategic conversation about each idea’s placement. In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! , You will learn effective, proven ways to move your implementation plan forward with greater speed and success. 5 Ways to Start Implementing Faster and Better!

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BrainZooming

MARCH 28, 2016

D ownload Your Free Internal Branding Strategy eBook! Are you looking for new, more effective ways to engage your employees in shaping and successfully carrying out your brand strategy? You need to download this FREE Brainzooming eBook, published with the Global Strategic Management Institute.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Too often, group activities intended to build team affiliation and collaboration are disconnected from meaningful objectives, resulting in no lasting business impact. Learning more about one another. Learning job-applicable skills. Engaging in a different type of activity? Building trust. Accomplishing something.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

Chuck facilitated multiple engaging, high-energy strategic innovation sessions for us at Yellow Corporation. Since we were learning as we went, some sessions worked better than others. ” Our answer was we were learning new things daily and adapting what our technique to reflect new successes and failures.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

We, however, routinely share how we do things via our methodology, tools, and learnings from Brainzooming strategic thinking workshops. My response is the more we share the Brainzooming methodology with you, the more you can improve your own strategy work on a daily basis in situations where it would NEVER be practical to engage us for help.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

I long ago learned an important lesson about corporate branding decisions : no matter how many intriguing, mentally-engaging brand strategy conversations you have among senior executives, those conversations NEVER lead to final decisions. In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! ,

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The interview is an outgrowth of an eBook on thought leadership. The eBook came from a workshop someone did at a conference I’ve spoken at many times. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

Like an unwanted present re-gifted again and again, these articles are often backed by academic studies that compared some quantifiable measure, such as the number of ideas generated by different methods, and found that more ideas were produced by having people engage in something other than “brainstorming,” such as solitary list-writing.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The motivation for the Buffalo Bills changing the practice routine is a response to new NFL restrictions (only one practice allowed per day and only fourteen practices with pads during the season) and the short attention spans and need for ongoing engagement among today’s younger players.

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Download this ebook now! Predictive optimization of business operations through machine learning, etc. It is essential to engage your employees in this vast and complicated process to transform the culture of an organization. Besides, the context is one of collaboration to co-create the future.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 11, 2016

While Harry was engaged mentally, you could sense some near-term memory loss. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and ideas! Contact us at info@brainzooming.com or call us at 816-509-5320 to learn how we can deliver these benefits for you.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

I help companies create new and better experiences for their customers by leading teams to grow their creative confidence and collaborative output. We were fully engaged in exploration and pushing the envelope. And we all learned lessons we continue to refer to today. We were bold, playful, inspired, and inspiring.

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