Idea Drop

JULY 20, 2017

For most businesses, every day is an exercise in problem-solving. From managing your team, to running your office, to actually doing the work that’s paying your bills, even the most repetitive role is likely to involve some degree of decision making. We’re driven to collaborate, challenge and create.

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BrainZooming

JULY 6, 2016

This time of year, preparing for upcoming strategic planning exercises may seem like something far in the future. Whether strategic planning is months away or close at hand, however, it’s always smart to get a head start tackling big strategic thinking questions that warrant in-depth consideration.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

What are all the change management strategy roles a change agent plays? We were working with an organization on its future vision while facilitating its strategic planning process. Despite the static language, strategic conversations with the team suggested they possessed a legitimate interest in pursuing innovative strategies.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 21, 2023

Beyond these applications, AI has the potential to enhance the emotional intelligence (EQ) of leaders and managers. Emotional intelligence refers to the ability to recognize, understand, and manage our emotions, as well as the emotions of others. The question then arises: can AI help leaders level up their EQ?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

We’re getting a lot of questions currently about identifying the right strategic planning exercises. 10 Questions You Must Consider about Strategic Planning Exercises. What are the strategic decisions the plan must support? How closely will management expect teams to follow the plan? Mike Brown.

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

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

That realization was a breakthrough in how we would create a strategy development exercise back when I ran strategic planning for a Fortune 500 corporation. The consultants we worked with to help us develop our first big strategic marketing plan back in 1997, didn’t provide productive structure to help us.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

This phase lays the groundwork for a successful meeting where strategic goals can be effectively developed and refined. It should be conducive to the creative and strategic thinking that you aim to foster among your executive team. Facilitate a session where your team can collaboratively identify each of these elements.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Developing an innovation culture within leadership requires a strategic approach, including implementing leadership development strategies that embed innovation as a core competency. This might involve rethinking traditional leadership hierarchies and fostering a more collaborative and inclusive approach to decision-making.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

There are a couple of different ways to apply structure to strategic planning exercises : You can enforce using templates and forms participants have to complete so their answers are uniformed and structured. This means there is no opportunity for productive collaboration to devise the plan.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 22, 2016

The search term “strategic visioning exercises” has been consistently near the top recently for what has bringing people to the Brainzooming website. 14 Articles on Strategic Visioning Exercises. And by done well, we mean that the vision statement: Is developed broadly and collaboratively.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

Articulating Your Strategic Innovation Direction in an Understandable Way. Strategic Thinking Questions to Identify What Matters for a Brand. Workplace Diversity – The Why, Who, and How of Strategic Thinking. Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2017

If your organization ’s strategic plan process comes together based on a few senior executives sitting in a room followed by a bunch of managers working alone in their offices, however, pulling the strategic plan notebook off the shelf is a HUGE metric for whether it’s successful. Contact us, and let’s book time to talk.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Defining Emotional Intelligence Components of Emotional Intelligence Emotional Intelligence (EQ) refers to the capability to recognize, understand, manage, and reason with emotions, both within oneself and in others. Self-regulation – The capacity to manage and control one’s own emotional responses.

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BrainZooming

MAY 1, 2017

For each characteristic, here are related Brainzooming articles with exercises and tips to improve your own performance creating strategic impact. Strategic Thinking Exercise – Simply Making Big Decisions. Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 11, 2016

What leadership skills are necessary to successfully champion a collaborative strategy ? A client fully immersed in developing and implementing a collaborative strategy asked that question. When we leave after the plan is completed, however, we’re finding many leaders aren’t prepared to implement a collaborative strategy plan.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

The objective involved taking twenty-three tables of participants through innovation strategy exercises to identify disruptive concepts, craft strategies, document audience profiles, imagine ideas, develop market positions, and propose all the ideas in 9-second pitches. Creative Thinking: Tesco Homeplus Virtual Subway Store.

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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. Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

We target the greatest relevance for strategists and innovators inside organizations that are excited about the opportunities that collaborative strategy offers in the way of culture transformation and results. This new reader was seeking information on managing strategy and innovation inside an organization described as fearing change.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

Download: FREE Innovation Strategic Thinking Fake Book. This new ebook features sixteen strategic thinking exercises to help you ideate, prioritize, and develop your best innovative growth ideas. Learn and rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 10, 2017

Suppose the strategic planning task at hand is imagining what your organization will look like at some future point. What are strategic planning exercises you can use with a team? Employ extreme creativity and disruptive innovation-oriented questions to push your strategic planning vision exercise in bold, future directions.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 10, 2018

Accelerate will help you think about potential resources in dramatically new ways. Other ways to quicken innovation include setting clear objectives, fine tuning the culture, speeding up insights and managing risk, better anticipating the future, and implementing for impact. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 8 Ideas for Brand Innovation.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 27, 2018

You can employ the strategic thinking exercises in Accelerate to : Facilitate a collaborative approach to identifying innovation resources. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media. Identify alternative internal strategies to secure support.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 6, 2016

Our content addresses collaborative ways to strategically engage employees in creating and delivering the best brand experience. The branding strategy workshop came about from talking to too many executives that think it’s okay to let employees in on branding changes at the same time (or even after) customers learn about them.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

We’d then turn to preparing a strategic plan. After several cycles, it became apparent our marketing managers couldn’t translate the ideas into effective plans. We had the processes and exercises needed already developed buy had never put them all together to move from ideas to plans within a day or two.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

We’ve written a tremendous amount about change and change management strategy since the Brainzooming blog’s inception. Just HOW MUCH have we written on change management strategy? I reviewed all eighty-six pages to develop our change management strategy primer. 35 Articles on Change Management Strategy in a Change Agent Role.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

If you are responsible for leading the strategic planning process at your organization, dive in and tweak your process to improve its efficiency and effectiveness. 113 Ideas for Strategic Planning Process Improvement. 12 Questions to Jump Start Your Strategic Planning Process. 5 Ideas for Simplified Strategic Planning.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 23, 2017

In nearly every instance, we spend time with a prospective client discussing three aspects of their strategic planning process needs : What they think they want to achieve. The best way to make it happen using our collaborative process. Conducting a Strategic Planning Process with a Certain Framework.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Following up the initial email exchange, I shared the following: “If you are looking to accelerate branding development, we use a streamlined process that is highly collaborative. “ For organizations that valuable broad collaboration, we deliver fantastic results. 7 Ways Groups Can Collaborate on Fun Strategic Planning.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2017

We wanted a strategic target to align IT strategy and innovation initiatives to support the organization in realizing its overall vision. We instead used previous exposure, strategic thinking exercises with the IT team and others, and strategic business sense to describe what it seemed a corporate target would encompass.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 8, 2017

Related posts Agile Strategy – 16 Strategic Thinking Questions to Explore Disruptive Innovation Disruptive Innovation, Change Management & Taking the NO Out of InNOvation Strategic Thinking – How do you define it?

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 23, 2015

We will also collaborate with you to turn them into reality with smart strategies and solid implementation plans. Along the way, your team will learn actionable creative thinking skills and dynamic strategy exercises that will serve them and your organization for years to come.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Creative Thinking Creativity 40

BrainZooming

JUNE 5, 2018

Online input and collaboration for greater access. The early input shapes the strategic priorities, innovation exercises , and additional deliverables to foster successful implementation. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media. This helps focus innovation efforts.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2018

As it seems everyone in your senior management team recognizes, your brand and messaging is tailored currently to a narrower audience. Plus, we integrate well and collaborate openly with organizations that do focus on implementation. Our approach and experience will deliver solid strategy.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 4, 2017

They are handled out of context strategically , looking at the business by department instead of by initiative. General managers and non-financial executives are placed in unfamiliar and poorly-performed accounting roles. Budget meetings are not integrated with strategic planning and business strategy.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 8, 2017

In the interim, here are multiple articles to start going deeper into creating a well-connected strategic plan: 8 Questions to Ask Before Launching a Strategic Planning Process. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 5 Questions to Test Vision Statement Impact. 4 Ways to Make a Strategic Planning Process Productive.

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