Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future. By removing distractions and dedicating time solely to strategic thinking, you create an atmosphere where creativity and big-picture thinking can thrive.

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Roadmap Design Underperforming Technical Team How To 100

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Does it meet everything your customers are looking for? You think there’s not much more you can do to improve your brand’s customer experience ? Don’t you think that is a very dangerous falsehood to hang onto and accept as reality? Talk to the people who think your brand does the coolest stuff in the world.

Strategic Thinking 102

Strategic Thinking Strategy Strategy Groups 102

Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

For insights into designing impactful leadership retreats, explore our guide on designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning. Goals and Objectives for Offsite Meetings To maximize the effectiveness of your executive offsite, it is crucial to establish clear goals and objectives.

Underperforming Technical Team 100

Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Strategy Technical Review 100

CMOE

APRIL 21, 2023

346% rise in the number of course recommendations given to staff members. Knowing how to make virtual training more engaging is crucial to meet the needs of the workforce. With virtual training front and center, business leaders must find strategic ways to spark community and engagement in their learning programs.

Training 52

Training Engagement How To LEAN 52

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 100

Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Design Exercises 100

BrainZooming

MARCH 3, 2017

Yesterday, we identified the six types of strategic planning process activities we use to design a client’s strategic thinking workshop. To facilitate you going deeper into thinking about how these activities function within a strategic planning process workshop, here are articles in each of the six areas.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team eBook 40

CMOE

JUNE 22, 2022

We are now regularly meeting L&D champions inside these great organizations who are driving these important development initiatives. Governmental organizations have found that expanding their 360° assessments for mid-level managers can help them course-correct in gap areas early or midway through their careers.

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Leadership Learning Course Strategic Thinking 59

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

It’s authenticity, of course. You can do this in person (quickly ask someone on your way to a meeting, or when you’re grabbing a coffee, and jot down their answer), via email, via text, over the phone, using an online survey or collaboration — you get the picture. What makes these things cool? It all boils down to the same thing.

Strategic Thinking 63

Strategic Thinking Strategy Strategy Collaboration 63

BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2017

Do you dread strategy meetings ? Really, we’re among friends, so you can be completely truthful in your answer: Do you REALLY, REALLY DREAD strategy meetings? Of course, you dread them. Every executive dreads strategic planning. 80 Fun Strategic Planning Activities and Ideas! 9 Ways to Keep Strategy Meetings Fresh.

eBook 41

eBook Exercises Meeting Strategy 41

Brunner

AUGUST 14, 2023

That endlessly creative curiosity — combined with strategic thinking — brings the teams and the work closer together. Of course, I want creative talent to grow HERE but sometimes you need to change it up. Q: You previously were an associate creative director at Brunner, left for a few years, then rejoined the agency in 2020.

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Creativity Meeting Collaboration Strategic Thinking 98

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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Disruption Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 100

BrainZooming

AUGUST 31, 2015

Taking professional mini-courses and seminars each day at a community college. Scheduling each day full of in-person meetings with smart, intriguing people around the city (and interviewing them for future blog posts). Reading all the unread magazines in the office and writing a two-sentence learning recap from each of them.

eBook 40

eBook Video Conference Strategy 40

BrainZooming

JANUARY 9, 2018

Of course, he’s going to watch it. I was watching this all develop over the course of about eight years. VH: I had my pitch meeting with ProductionFor in February. I’m always sending him videos and stuff and he’s like, Oh…yeah…I kind of clicked on it…. Vicki Howell (VH): I mean, but it’s knitting, soooo….

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Creativity Video Project Marketing 0

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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Strategy Strategy Change Underperforming Technical Team 100

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Chuck Dymer co-facilitated a client’s internal management meeting with us recently. During the creative thinking workshop we facilitated inside an internal management meeting, participants worked through multiple exercises to identify ideas for internal and customer initiatives.

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Creative Thinking Creativity Exercises Strategic Thinking 91

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

The evening before the workshop, I drive down from LA immediately following a Neil Finn show, accompanied by a girlfriend, just on the off chance that it’s all a setup and I’m meeting up with an ax murderer. But despite it being our first time meeting face to face, it feels like we’ve known each other for years. Spoiler: I’m not.

Creativity 75

Creativity eBook Strategy Strategy 75

MSSBTI

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

The meetings get longer and you discuss decisions more, but you feel good because you have made rational choices. The idea that strategic thinking occurs on 1 year, 3 year, or even 5 year horizons is collapsed to much shorter 3 month, 6 month, and 12 months (or perhaps shorter) with maybe a 2 year view in the misty distance.

Technical Review 45

Technical Review Leadership Analysis Change 45

KindlingApp

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

As they work to develop strategic thinking about innovation program goals and aims, leadership often holds closed-door meetings where key stakeholders attempt to identify the problems and projects that they'll challenge their innovators to solve or advance. Allow Your Teams to Fail (Sometimes).

Innovation Programs 40

Innovation Programs Innovation Crowdsourcing Creativity 40

BrainZooming

JULY 11, 2016

We need fewer guns and more readiness to meet each other with listening, understanding, and kindness. The more we’ve moved away from God to chart our own courses, the more we seem to be sinking into worsening cycles of failure and despair. We Love Killing. Even more than loving guns, we generally love killing.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Culture Course Meeting 40