Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Instead, a more holistic approach to leadership intelligence is required—one that includes Experiential Intelligence (XQ). The Importance of Innovation in Executive Leadership Innovation is the lifeblood of any successful organization. The integration of XQ into executive functions is a potent tool for driving innovation.

Leadership 113

Leadership Innovation Collaboration Culture 113

Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Improved Focus : With day-to-day distractions left behind, your team can concentrate fully on strategic issues and high-level thinking. Enhanced Collaboration : Offsites encourage open communication and teamwork, fostering a spirit of cooperation that can lead to innovative solutions. Objectives should be S.M.A.R.T

Strategy 100

Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Exercises 100

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 more on creating conducive settings for strategic discussions, read our guide on designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Technical Review Groups 130

BrainZooming

AUGUST 15, 2017

We mentioned how frequently we’re being asked to incorporate uncertainty into Brainzooming creativity and strategic thinking presentations. Considering that, I added new strategic thinking content on flexibility into my presentation at The Leadership Institute.

Strategic Thinking 56

Strategic Thinking eBook Guidelines Strategy 56

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.

Roadmap 100

Roadmap Design Underperforming Technical Team How To 100

Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

How to Get and Measure Strategic Thinking As leaders, we know that it is critical to today’s changing times to think differently about what’s in front of us. We need to get out of “business as usual” and break through the status quo mindset to push our teams to get more innovation, growth, and new.

Strategic Thinking 53

Strategic Thinking How To Change Innovation 53

BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

Learning what participants in an upcoming big meeting know, think, and believe before they come together in a large group is one tactic to strengthen team collaboration. 14 Team Collaboration Benefits from Pre-Meeting Outreach. Gaining these team collaboration insights can come through various pre-meeting outreach formats.

Collaboration 77

Collaboration Meeting Strategic Thinking Creative Thinking 77

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

During in-person and online strategic planning workshops , we regularly use a strategic thinking exercise that helps leadership groups quickly identify a shared future vision statement. We turn that input into a collaborative vision statement. Pushing Back on a Strategic Thinking Exercise.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Groups 40

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. These gatherings are critical for aligning leadership on company vision, strengthening interpersonal relationships, and making decisions that will steer the company’s future.

Underperforming Technical Team 100

Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Strategy Technical Review 100

Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 21, 2023

It’s a critical skill for leaders, who must navigate complex interpersonal dynamics, foster collaboration, and build strong relationships. It’s essential for effective leadership, as it fosters trust, improves communication, and enhances team morale. The question then arises: can AI help leaders level up their EQ?

Exercises 118

Exercises Leadership Training Tools 118

CMOE

MAY 28, 2021

With the changing needs and demands of clinical care, technology, and spending, leadership in healthcare must stay agile to keep up with the shifting tides. Who Fills the Leadership Role in Healthcare? Many individuals fill leadership roles in healthcare. Here are the five essential qualities for leadership in healthcare.

Leadership 52

Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Strategic Thinking Training 52

BrainZooming

JUNE 26, 2018

Talking with one city’s representatives about strategies to sell-in a broadband recommendation with voters, they asked whether it is okay to engage its citizens after city leadership develops a recommendation. Engage your audience in collaborative strategic planning earlier than later. It involves more constraints.

Collaboration 59

Collaboration Engagement Strategic Thinking Leadership 59

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

But if not for the blog, it would live in a file somewhere with no way to effectively retrieve it, even though it still holds up all these years later as a guideline for servant leadership and solid business behavior. If you are in a leadership position or aspire to one, feel free to borrow and adapt it to share with your team.

Leadership 69

Leadership Strategic Thinking eBook Guidelines 69

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2022

It’s about leadership, organizational structure, knowledge management, corporate purpose and values, norms regarding collaboration, and strategic foresight processes. Instead of hierarchy and control, the focus of management must be on collaboration and enabling what is new. Innovation touches everything.

Innovation 130

Innovation Conference Strategic Thinking Strategy 130

BrainZooming

APRIL 4, 2016

A New Add to Our Extreme Creativity Strategic Thinking Exercises. Thinking about the statement further and the audacity of trying to do “the impossible with nothing” suggested this idea was the ultimate in extreme creativity. ” Why are we adding this strategic thinking question?

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises eBook Creativity 40

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 24, 2023

It is our ability to consistently capture, build and develop new ideas within organizations or in open collaborations with others that have a direct effect on revenue growth and the ability to provide future sustainability. Future collaborations will build on a network of relationships and an ecosystem of design and thinking.

Innovation Programs 189

Innovation Programs Technical Review Innovation Policies 189

BrainZooming

MARCH 30, 2017

Along with the recap, Inside the Executive Suite offered sixteen strategic thinking questions inspired by the Fanatics case study that you can use to explore agile strategy options within your own organization. We thought the list was intriguing, so we secured the go ahead to share the strategic thinking questions with you here.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Agile Disruption Strategy 40

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.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Strategy Strategy Strategic Thinking 40

CMOE

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Supervisors and managers both hold leadership positions. Applying the right leadership style for a given situation. Identifying ways to elevate team performance, collaboration and team dynamics. Providing supervisors with advice on how to navigate challenges and improve their leadership skills. Tops Skills for Managers.

Management 52

Management Strategic Thinking Training Leadership 52

BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

That doesn’t mean leadership should spell out everything. 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. 4 Encourages Change.

Strategy 151

Strategy Strategy Culture Strategic Thinking 151

CMOE

JULY 27, 2022

Applied Strategic Thinking®. Find a balance between meeting today’s expectations and requirements and reaching for tomorrow’s possibilities by thinking and acting in a strategic way. Empathic Leadership. Use code SAVE15 to get 15% off your purchase (or contact CMOE for bulk-pricing options). Communication.

Course 52

Course Trends Learning Strategic Thinking 52

BrainZooming

JULY 26, 2021

What options are there when assembling a leadership team or board of directors who want to do blue sky thinking for big ideas? Seems simple, although delivering on this objective requires deft design to enable a collaboration with a chance of producing big thinking. Framing the Thinking Perspectives.

Exercises 105

Exercises Groups Design Strategic Thinking 105

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Eight years ago today, I published an article about personal leadership, asking the question, “What would you do with an extra day?” That proved to be true; since that time, we have collaborated on two American Marketing Association national market research conferences several years ago and a creative workshop a few months ago.

Leadership 40

Leadership Strategic Thinking eBook Conference 40

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

This week’s “Inside the Executive Suite” from the Armada Executive Intelligence Brief newsletter highlighted two Wall Street Journal articles examining leadership strategy in light of how involved a teacher or coach should be in the details of teaching and learning. . They develop from actively living a varied, diverse life.

Leadership 76

Leadership Strategy Strategy Creativity 76

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

What leadership strategy should you employ to succeed while dealing with this type of pernicious corporate antagonist ? An Unconventional Leadership Strategy with a Corporate Antagonist. He’s having to go public with several biases and perennial weak spots in his leadership style as he tries to protect his previous work.

Leadership 55

Leadership Strategy Strategy Management 55

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 15, 2021

I have just finished the second of a planned series with one of my favourite long-term collaborators Jeffrey Phillips. The establishing of innovation within any Strategic thinking is becoming even more important today than ever. The link to this conversation is here , it is just over 15 minutes long.

Strategy 312

Strategy Strategy Innovation Resources 312

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

An internal consultant at a healthcare company asked about ways to add value to many open-ended comments using a group strategic thinking exercise. Because a market researcher at her organizations facilitates the same exercise with their leadership team every year. Why was she asking? New Insights from Open-Ended Comments.

Exercises 59

Exercises Strategic Thinking Survey Meeting 59

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 9, 2023

To get to a good understanding of cross-sector innovation ecosystems collaborations, you need to take a very considered holistic view of what is needed in any collaboration, let alone cutting across sectors to generate a successful outcome. My second post identified specific skills and toolkits to be considered.

Collaboration 130

Collaboration Innovation Engagement Tools 130

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Publications and Thought Leadership : Authoring books, articles, or maintaining an active blog on innovation topics can demonstrate thought leadership. The decision-making process is critical and should be approached with diligence and strategic thinking to find a speaker that will meet, if not exceed, your expectations.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Innovation Engagement Conference 100

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Suppose you’re going into a meeting and taking over leadership of a team or initiative where those you will be leading have been involved and active previously. The question in each of these cases is how you use your leadership skills so you can “fake it until you make it?”. 8 Ways to Fake It Until You Make It.

Leadership 40

Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Creative Thinking Meeting 40

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.

Exercises 58

Exercises Collaboration Strategic Thinking eBook 58

BrainZooming

MAY 29, 2020

Since April, we’ve been developing and soft launching a new online collaboration experience called Blast! Zane wanted to develop and share content that addressed what business executives need to be thinking about in strategy, innovation, branding, and creative leadership. The short answer? Mike Brown.

Strategy 59

Strategy Strategy eBook Strategic Thinking 59

BrainZooming

MAY 23, 2017

This is the reason we are emphatic about having both line and functional leaders participate in strategic planning activities for functional departments. 2 Strategic Thinking Questions for Strategic Planning Activities in a Matrix Organization. Our department will drive _? Our department will enable _?

Strategic Thinking 51

Strategic Thinking eBook Exercises Tools 51

Tullio Siragusa

MAY 1, 2023

As a discipline, EA seeks to create a holistic, strategic view of an organization’s technology landscape, enabling better alignment between business objectives and IT capabilities. EA can serve as a bridge between these disparate teams, fostering a culture of communication and collaboration.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review System Collaboration Design 62

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

Playing is a tool that lets you eliminate hierarchies and foster collaboration between very different profiles. Serious games use the universal language of playing and methodologies that allow people with very different profiles to collaborate and understand each other. To optimise co-creation. To start an innovation project.

Creative Thinking 53

Creative Thinking Training Innovation Innovation Processes 53

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

A search on the Brainzooming blog to track down content for an updated strategic thinking presentation uncovered it. The title is from a leadership presentation that I do. Our free “Big Strategy Statements” eBook lays out an approach to collaboratively develop smart, strategic directions that improve results!

Strategic Thinking 0

Strategic Thinking eBook Leadership Strategy 0

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Yet, having worked with the individual closely in the previous year, I witnessed the most dramatic turnaround in personal leadership I had ever seen in a co-worker. A Personal Leadership Test. Based on the personal leadership turnaround, I made the case several times for a demotion and not a termination.

Leadership 40

Leadership eBook Creativity Exercises 40