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Powering Up Your Strategy: Success Factors for Executive Team Offsites

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In today’s fast-paced business environment, crafting and leading an effective executive team offsite has emerged as a pivotal strategy for fostering alignment, stimulating innovation, and bolstering organizational resilience. Agenda Design Creating a well-thought-out agenda is essential for your offsite.

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Creating Roadmaps for Success: How to Design and Run a Strategic Planning Offsite

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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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Community Collaboration Workshops Come in All Sizes

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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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2 Super Smart Ways to Catalyze Innovative Success

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An article in The Wall Street Journal by Paul Ziobro shares an report on how toy manufacturers, including Mattel and Hasbro, are accelerating their new product innovation processes. Beyond these possibilities, what else can your brand explore to expand its repertoire of market listening strategies? Directly Observing Customers.

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Innovation Strategy – Dancing Elephants, Orthodoxies, and Cognitive Biases

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Lens smashing is a common innovation strategy technique to get to the next level of thinking. Think about that one. Here’s a new innovation strategy tool: Take the 20 biases in the article and write as many orthodoxies as you can envision for each one. Innovation Strategy to Grow Your Business?

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Innovation Strategy – Pat McGauley and a New Beer in Town

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What’s the story on the innovation strategy for beer? Former Vice President of Innovation at Anheuser-Busch, Pat McGauley , shared stories of his past twelve years creating the company’s innovation team. Pat’s innovation team was responsible for product and packaging innovation.

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Leadership Skills – 15 Ideas for Innovative Leadership in 2017

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He will then ask for two or three more examples so candidates are forced to think on their feet during interviews. Some leaders dismiss the idea of collaborating with their teams because it takes too much time, keeps team members away from daily tasks, and can lead to ideas that the organization is not ready to embrace. The reason?