IdeaScale

JULY 4, 2017

Achieve bigger innovation results through helping others learn and develop their innovation and ideation skill for the first time. 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.

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CMOE

APRIL 21, 2023

For example, LinkedIn Learning experienced a 46% increase in time spent on learning by its enterprise learners. A 3,000% rise in virtual collaboration. Rather than attending training events in the office, training center, or hotel, team members are instead getting their learning and training experiences virtually.

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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Beginning with clarity of purpose and the selection of an environment that fosters collaboration and creativity, you can set the stage for a successful strategic planning session. For example, if your team is heavy on big-picture thinkers, include activities that focus on detailed action planning to complement their strategic visions.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

It requires a shift in your strategic thinking, urging you to anticipate changes and react with precision. For guidance on fostering strategic thinking within your leadership team, refer to 10 ways to get your leadership team thinking strategically and building the best business strategies.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

These retreats are not merely a change of scenery but a strategic move to foster innovation and alignment among the top decision-makers of your company. The value of such gatherings lies in their capacity to refresh perspectives, encourage strategic thinking, and address complex challenges without the distractions of the office environment.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 26, 2018

Engage your audience in collaborative strategic planning earlier than later. If you engage your audience early in the collaborative strategic planning process, you can make a legitimate claim to creating a collaborative vision. That means the range of collaboration opportunities narrows.

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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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BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

At the 2016 Brand Strategy Conference, Antonia Dean, Director – Marketing, Brand Development, & Strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies covered the strategic thinking ideas behind creating an entrepreneurial environment in a large company. Put together the success recipe based on learning from failure and moving forward.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

To avoid the pitfalls of a static strategy and ensure your business is future-proof, it’s essential to foster a culture of agility and strategic foresight. Cultivating a Forward-Thinking Mindset The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. Reward calculated risk-taking, even when it doesn’t always lead to success.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 1, 2015

How do you gain the best advantage from the expertise, experience, and ideas inside your organization as you pursue strategic planning? It was a pleasure to talk with Kelly about the impact of collaborative strategy on strategic planning, a topic she and I have discussed off the air many times over the past few years.

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Brunner

AUGUST 14, 2023

Looking back, 18-year-old me would have never imagined collaborating with brands like Google, Dropbox, Church’s Texas Chicken, Starbucks, Marvel, The Home Depot Rental, Nationwide. Keep learning regardless of tenure or experience. We are freakishly collaborative. That collaboration extends to clients and production partners.

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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

To learn how to leverage organizational culture for greater business agility and resilience, see leverage organizational culture for greater business agility and resilience. This may include skills such as strategic thinking, emotional intelligence, and communication.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Culture Change 100

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

JANUARY 30, 2018

For the first six years of The Brainzooming Group, I published a list near our anniversary date with twenty-five lessons learned or reconfirmed in the most recent year away from full-time corporate life. 35 Lessons Learned (or Reconfirmed) in the Last Two Years Away from Corporate Life. That may be money. It may be something else.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We use multiple ways to gather input to ensure that by the time we bring a bigger group together for an in-person visioning workshop we’ve fully exploited more efficient, lower-risk, lower-investment formats to engage participants and solicit input for strategic planning. 3 Ways Online Collaboration Works to Deliver Big Benefits.

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BrainZooming

JULY 5, 2017

The size and scale of opportunities you pursue, even in a company that was not always all that innovative, oriented me to think a big team and significant dollars are vital for real innovation. Given that, moving to an entrepreneurial environment in 2009 was new territory when it came to learning innovation strategy lessons.

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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.” ” That question relates to something we do all the time: walk into a new client in an unfamiliar industry to design and facilitate a strategic planning process.

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BrainZooming

MAY 24, 2017

Last week’s “Inside the Executive Suite” from Armada Corporate Intelligence featured ideas for how to handle confidential information. The business strategy focus revolved around how an executive can maintain confidences while employing confidential information to best benefit his or her organization.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 21, 2023

AI can revolutionize the educational landscape by tailoring learning experiences, automating administrative tasks, and providing insights into student performance. It’s a critical skill for leaders, who must navigate complex interpersonal dynamics, foster collaboration, and build strong relationships.

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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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Moves the Needle

MAY 24, 2019

Lean Innovation is a set of rapid customer-focused, evidence-based behaviors that help remove the waste and uncertainty in how we create value and solve problems for those we serve. We need to expose and deeply understand what we know for sure about our challenge or opportunity, the stakeholders involved, and potential solutions.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 16, 2016

9 Ideas on How to Involve a Team in Group Strategy Exercises. You can try these nine ideas for how to involve team in group strategy exercises: Place people in roles that accentuate their strengths and best characteristics. Assign others to roles that stretch their strengths in new ways.

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CMOE

MAY 28, 2021

How to Foster Empathy. Being able to think on your feet is crucial to thriving in a high-risk industry. How to Build Quick & Smart Decision-Making. This can foster a collaborative team that works together to make decisions. How to Promote Communication Skills. Strategic Thinking. Communication.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

That is evidenced by our web traffic as searches for effective strategic planning exercises and effective strategy meetings jump. Invariably, executives are seeking information on strategic thinking exercises suited to making strategic planning participants more effective and successful.

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BrainZooming

MAY 29, 2020

Since April, we’ve been developing and soft launching a new online collaboration experience called Blast! I want to share updates in the days ahead from the learnings and lessons relevant for you, as Brainzooming readers, from these activities. Sorry about that, especially for those of you who’ve noticed and wondered what happened.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Here are four different approaches The Brainzooming Group employs with clients: Instead of using complex strategic exercises that aren’t beneficial outside planning, we use strategic thinking questions that fit how people think and work on a daily basis.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2018

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. Need a strategy, creativity, innovation or other learning and motivational boost for your audience? Photo via Shutterstock. More Posts - Website Follow Me:

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Exercises Creative Thinking Creativity Groups 81

BrainZooming

MAY 13, 2016

We’ve said it before, experience its confirmation repeatedly, and will thus say it again: One of the best ways to learn more about what you know is to teach it to someone else. The latest confirmation took place this week as we created and presented a new Brainzooming innovation workshop on how to develop insights to fuel innovation.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Reflecting on it the next morning, something struck me: this is the first time I’ve participated in someone else’s strategic planning process in over a decade. That means it’s perfect for: Learning new approaches. 5 Reactions to Someone Else’s Strategic Planning Process. Yes, strategic planning can be fun.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

Creating Strategic Impact – What Is Your Organizational Body Language Saying? Dilbert and Screwing Up How to Request Employee Ideas. Individuals Posing Creative Thinking Challenges. How Creative Thinking Gets Killed by Team Members – 8 Fatal Blows. 5 Ideas When an Uber-Positive Boss Crushes Creative Thinking.

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Daniel Burrus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Specifically, how they: . collaborate. As machine learning and deep learning move into organizations, professionals who want to increase their cognitive performance must step up their game at the same time. Optimization is possible by learning anticipatory skills and applying cognitive performance technologies.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

Executives that SHOULD know how to develop and write a strategic plan struggled. We learned that if we asked executives a series of questions leading to the information needed to complete a strategy plan, they became productive strategy planners. The collaborative approach created more thorough and vetted plans.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Setting the Stage for Creative Thinking Skills for Sales. Structure and Creative Thinking Skills. Strategic Thinking and 10 Fundamentals of Creating Strategic Impact. How to Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone. Embracing a Strategic Sales Perspective. Strategic Conversations – 12 Things to Listen For.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2017

How do you move from creative thinking into action? That was a persistent question during a recent Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop that also included a heavy dose of content on creative thinking. They also wanted a sense of when and why you should think creatively.

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Creative Thinking Creativity Strategic Thinking eBook 61

BrainZooming

MARCH 8, 2016

Creating Strategic Impact – How to Start? Creating Strategic Impact with Small, Possible Steps. Strategic Thinking and 10 Fundamentals of Creating Strategic Impact. 9 Strategic Thinking Questions – Helping Teams Execute Strategy. Just Start! 8 Ways to Start Now and Quit Waiting.

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