Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Benefits of Virtual Team Building Activities Virtual team building activities are designed to bridge the gap between remote team members, creating a sense of unity and shared purpose. Innovation and Creativity : Virtual team building can stimulate creativity by encouraging members to think outside the box and bounce ideas off one another.

Team Building 100

Team Building Collaboration Engagement Tools 100

InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. They can be too passive, boring, yield few ideas (and even fewer creative innovations), last too long, and result in too much discussion and too little action. Implementation: 6 Questions to Help You Design Innovative Meetings.

Meeting 106

Meeting Design Examples Brainstorming 106

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

To ensure that leaders have the necessary skills to foster such a culture, it is crucial to integrate innovation into leadership development programs and offer leadership development workshops focused on enhancing innovation leadership skills. Here are strategies to cultivate this culture among high potential leaders.

Culture of Innovation 113

Culture of Innovation Culture Leadership Innovation 113

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Chuck has been an incredible influence on my career, especially as it comes to creative thinking skills. Chuck was the first person I heard deliver an in-depth presentation on creative thinking skills. Creative Thinking Skills and Place with Chuck Dymer. That was definitely true. Mike Brown.

Creative Thinking 40

Creative Thinking Creativity eBook Video 40

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 19, 2015

What’s a “pizza meeting,” and what does it have to do with creative thinking? Back in the Fortune 500 days, we facilitated so many strategic planning workshop sessions we gave up renting creativity-oriented offsite locations. After one half-day workshop in the multipurpose room, we were getting ready to leave.

Creative Thinking 40

Creative Thinking Meeting Creativity Strategic Thinking 40

InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 6, 2022

AI can be a powerful tool to use in your innovation, design thinking, or ideation projects. “Unlock Your Creative Potential: Transform Your Ideas into Innovations!” Write 30 ideas for names for a new program on design and creativity. Creative Design Academy 2. The Design Lab 3.

Artificial Inteligence 83

Artificial Inteligence Ideation Brainstorming ChatGPT 83

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2023

I had a most enjoyable and rewarding conversation last week on Innovation and Ecosystem design. Other cognitive abilities, such as critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving skills, and the ability to connect disparate ideas, also play significant roles in the innovative process.

ChatGPT 182

ChatGPT Creativity Data Learning 182

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 4, 2016

I attended a presentation on cultivating a creative culture delivered by Michael Perman, formerly of Gap, at The Marketing Conference last week in San Francisco. During his keynote, Perman discussed twenty-plus three-day creativity sessions he organized while at Gap. What mix of creative diversity will drive implementation?

Groups 91

Groups Creativity Conference eBook 91

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2018

I explained to them that no matter who we bring into an in-person Brainzooming workshop, we design the questions and exercises so that EVERYONE will be successful participating. It’s like the secret to creative success for everyone ! Extreme Creativity. I like the concept, a lot. Innovation.

Creativity 79

Creativity eBook Creative Thinking Strategic Thinking 79

Innovation Walk

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Originally from Bucharest (Romania), Vlad teaches this creative thinking concept inspired by personal development, psychology, and renowned creative minds. Check out our conversation to discover more about the REframe workshop and Vlad’s perspective on creativity and innovation. Its role is vital.

Creativity 75

Creativity Collaboration Creative Thinking Groups 75

BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2018

We have a call with a client about an upcoming Brainzooming innovation workshop. 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. Move to the Shrimp creative thinking exercise. Photo via Shutterstock.

Exercises 81

Exercises Creative Thinking Creativity Groups 81

BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

We introduced the first Brainzooming strategic planning workshop resembling what we do today as The Brainzooming Group ten years ago, June 19-20, 2006. The First Brainzooming Strategic Planning Workshop. Chuck’s creativity techniques and helped us generate tons of ideas. We’d do these sessions as part of strategic planning.

Exercises 67

Exercises Strategic Thinking Strategy Strategy 67

InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Explore creative problem solving techniques, activities, and articles. One such approach is creative problem solving, a methodology focused on divergent thinking. One such approach is creative problem solving, a methodology focused on divergent thinking. What is Creative Problem Solving? Impossible!

Training 47

Training Creativity Handbook Design Thinking 47

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 18, 2019

When we are designing innovation for the future, the search is even more centered around strategically connected value creation. The task of searching to resolve more complex problems allows Design Thinking to step up and become a far more visible component on how we can go about this. Source: Rikke Dam and Teo Yin Siang.

Design Thinking 217

Design Thinking Innovation Design System 217

InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 26, 2021

We help organizations discover how to build innovation and design thinking strategies into their workplace environments, start and lead innovation teams, and keep up the process of innovating every day. This trait is important because it can help teams better understand their end users and stakeholders and design with them in mind.

Underperforming Technical Team 80

Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming Innovation Collaboration 80

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

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.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Strategic Thinking Groups Engagement 40

InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 30, 2021

Designing and facilitating innovative meetings with your team can be pressure-filled and time-consuming. We’ve researched worked with teams all over the world to build better innovative training sessions, brainstorms, workshops, meetings, and more. This 12-minute activity is designed to generate better ideas and more of them faster.

Training 52

Training Meeting Brainstorming Guidelines 52

Idea Champions

JANUARY 20, 2024

Val Vadeboncoeur is a Senior Consultant with Idea Champions , an innovation consulting and training company that has provided innovation and team building services to more than 100 organizations in 11 different countries for the past 34 years.

Brainstorming 26

Brainstorming Training Creative Process Creative Thinking 26

Michael Michalko

MAY 14, 2022

Following are tips on how to loosen up the group to energize their creative thinking. Ask participants to draw a personal symbol that metaphorically symbolizes their view about creativity. A six word description of creative thinking could be: “Last night confused. CREATIVE COLLAGES. It can be anything…….an

Creative Thinking 98

Creative Thinking Groups Creativity Handbook 98

Idea Champions

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Enter Free the Genie -- an affordable, expertly facilitated, 60-90-minute online ideation session designed to help you generate the kind of clarity, creativity, and commitment you need to make a quantum leap of thought and action. And it's simple as 1-2-3. First, we ensure that you frame the right question via a simple online survey.

Brainstorming 49

Brainstorming Creative Thinking Survey Ideation 49

BrainZooming

JUNE 5, 2018

It doesn’t start with getting everyone together in a room for a creative thinking workshop and expecting innovative ideas to happen spontaneously. Analysis, outreach, and design thinking combine to make in-person innovation productive and ROI-driven – after completing the pre-work.

Analysis 66

Analysis Strategic Thinking Survey Strategy 66

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

To facilitate this, you may want to explore workshops or training sessions focused on use change management to transform organizational culture. They can include logos, office designs, company slogans, and even the jargon used within the workforce.

Culture 100

Culture Underperforming Technical Team Agile Leadership 100

Michael Michalko

DECEMBER 10, 2021

His international team applied those methods to various NATO military, political, and social problems and in doing so it produced a variety of breakthrough ideas and creative solutions to new and old problems. After leaving the military, Michael facilitated CIA think tanks using his creative thinking techniques.

Handbook 52

Handbook Exercises Brainstorming Creative Thinking 52

InnovationTraining.org

JULY 13, 2020

The technique can be used in multiple projects or work cases, such as marketing, design, product/service development, and more. InnovationTraining.org also offers an online brainstorming training course that can be implemented at your organization or business to empower critical and creative thinking.

Exercises 84

Exercises Brainstorming Ideation Software 84

Rmukesh Gupta

JULY 27, 2017

And the more creative we are, the better the solution could be. The facilitator sets up the context and wants us to come up with creative ideas that could potentially solve the issue at hand. We try to come up with some regular ideas, that are neither surprising nor creative. Has this ever happen with you?

Creativity 40

Creativity Engagement How To Exercises 40

Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Since 1987, Idea Champions has been designing and facilitating a wide range of brainstorming sessions, creative thinking trainings, and innovation workshops for more than 130 organizations in 11 different countries. During that time, we have worked with just about every industry on planet earth and every kind of mindset.

Brainstorming 26

Brainstorming Training Ideation Idea Generation 26

Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. There is no innovation without creativity.

Innovation 70

Innovation Culture Creative Thinking Design Thinking 70

InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In this article, we’ll share some general advice for organizations and companies designing, developing, and implementing leadership retreats. Icebreakers can also be used throughout the retreat to facilitate different groupings with creative thinking and problem solving purposes. What is a leadership or executive retreat?

Leadership 61

Leadership Design Thinking Design Training 61

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We’re big proponents of the value of bringing together a diverse group of people with varied creative thinking skills for strategic planning workshops within organizations and communities. Sometimes we use online collaboration within an in-person strategic planning workshop. There really are all kinds of possibilities.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Creative Thinking Exercises Groups 40

mjvinnovation

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

A startup is a company designed to expand rapidly. Open innovation hubs are similar to laboratories and research workshops maintained by companies and other innovation managers, but what sets them apart from these structures is that they emphasize networking and the community to the detriment of workshops and traditional laboratories.

Open Innovation 52

Open Innovation Internet of things Innovation Agile 52

BrainZooming

JANUARY 12, 2017

Occasionally, someone participating in a strategy workshop filled with innovative ideas will complain that a lot, or maybe all (REALLY? Now, when designing a strategy workshop , we often start with time for participants to share ideas they are already bringing with them at the start.

eBook 40

eBook Innovation Strategic Thinking Creative Thinking 40

InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 26, 2022

If we can understand this set of desired outcomes, we can plan backwards from that endpoint to determine a series of steps in product or service design. Agile design, on the other hand, begins without a clear endpoint, assuming that any presumptions about results may bias or limit our opportunities and options.

Agile 74

Agile Culture Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 74

BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

First: the workshops, keynotes, deep-dives and panels were excellent. Topics ranged from entrepreneurship to leading creative teams, from being cognizant of one’s news sources and information suppliers to the factors that make up a creative mindset. The hard part, honestly, was deciding which sessions to pick.

Conference 74

Conference Strategic Thinking Creativity Resources 74

BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2017

The audience for the presentation consists of educators, landscape designers, government officials, and others involved with creating outdoor classrooms for children. Next month, Emma Alvarez Gibson and I will be delivering a couple of workshops for the Friends of Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites. Creativity. Enthusiasm.

Creative Thinking 43

Creative Thinking Leadership eBook Creativity 43

Rmukesh Gupta

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Last week I was invited to run a Design thinking experiential workshop for the STC conference in Bangalore. As a design thinking coach, I end up facilitating a lot of such brainstorms as it is one of the core steps in the problem solving approach. They came up last week in the workshop as well. Crazy ideas.

Brainstorming 40

Brainstorming How To Design Thinking Creativity 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Getting as much homework and other stuff involving individual work done before the strategic planning workshop so everyone isn’t waiting around for one person to share information. Designing strategic thinking questions leading to engaging conversation among familiar and new participants.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Collaboration Groups 40

Idea Champions

JANUARY 19, 2018

Flying in an outside consultant to lead a workshop or training can sometimes be cost prohibitive. You and I have a 15-minute phone conversation about WHY you want to raise the bar for innovation and creativity in your organization. You (or your designated meeting moderator) facilitates the innovation-topic-of-the week conversation.

Learning 24

Learning Creative Thinking Training Meeting 24