Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 30, 2023

I have been building a stronger, more robust narrative that is built around what I continue to refine and offer as my advisory and coaching practice at Agility Innovation, my eight skill development and creative thinking steps , which will be discussed in depth in a subsequent post or two.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 9, 2016

What are your expectations from a creative thinking workshop? That is the first question I ask the audience at a Brainzooming creative thinking workshop. 7 Expectations from Creative Thinking Workshop Training. How do you motivate others – and yourself – to engage in greater creative thinking?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Importance of Fostering Innovation in Leadership Defining Innovation Culture An innovation culture refers to the values, behaviors, and norms that ensure an organization not only generates new ideas but also executes them to achieve positive outcomes.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Advice for planning and facilitating successful corporate, executive, and leadership retreats. That’s where leadership retreats come in! This time can be spent training the leadership team’s natural abilities to support the organization and its goals. What is a leadership or executive retreat?

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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. 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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

To delve further into the developmental aspects of organizational culture and how it can be shaped, explore our article on develop executive leadership to drive organizational culture change. This ecosystem is nurtured by a set of shared practices, stories, rituals, and symbols which evolve over time.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 1, 2024

Switching on, or switching off, innovation What companies fail to realize is that to innovate means to adopt a new way of thinking, to promote creativity and exploration, to brainstorm things that are likely to fail, to run experiments and test ideas, to gather ideas from customers and markets and to spot emerging opportunities.

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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.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

By sharing their expertise and experiences, a keynote speaker can challenge conventional thinking, encourage creative solutions, and stimulate a culture of innovation. By highlighting stories of successful innovation and providing actionable strategies, a keynote speaker can empower attendees to think differently and act boldly.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Improved Problem-Solving Facilitates creative thinking and collaborative solutions to challenges. Engaging and Interactive Presentations Speakers must go beyond delivering speeches and engage their audience through interactive presentations. Higher engagement, shared understanding.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

That doesn’t mean leadership should spell out everything. Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives. Strategic Thinking Perspectives – Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team. Creative Thinking – The Math of Brainstorming and New Ideas. #3 4 Encourages Change. 4 Encourages Change.

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MSSBTI

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

How would you adjust to transferring from a self contained organization with a command and control leadership style to one with a distributed leadership style? This is where the shift in leadership style from command and control to distributive pays off. How would you adapt? How would you prepare? And how would you be received?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The Role of Leadership in Strategy Development Leadership is at the heart of strategy development. You have the responsibility to foster an environment where strategic thinking flourishes. As a leader, your vision sets the direction for the company’s future.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

I have also since seen a mounting amount of scientific research showing how women do not even get the same credit for their creativity or innovation work as if a man were to suggest the same idea. The main thing is to start with creativity- understand that creativity is the engine for innovation. Twitter: natwnixon.

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ImagineNation

JULY 23, 2018

Whether you are a company that wants to attract top talent or an individual who is trying to land your dream job, or create a new business, it’s becoming clear that the future of work is both human and technology centred and involves the development of new leadership capabilities. Leadership as a way of life.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

By engaging in CVC, corporations can also contribute to the development of startup accelerator programs , which are designed to support early-stage companies as they grow. Business Model Innovation Adopting novel approaches to business operations and customer engagement.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

For this ability to tap into the “dynamics of innovation,” most of any future success in the modern world demands a proactive approach through constant skill development and creative thinking. Providing a Range of Insights : Objectives : Foster a diverse and creative mindset to generate a variety of perspectives.

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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?”. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

It promotes disinhibition, reduces prejudice, encourages cross-disciplinary teamwork and co-creation, helps groups with very different profiles to speak the same language and achieves a level of engagement that drives participants to go one step further. To optimise creative sessions. To optimise co-creation.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 10, 2020

Then applying, experimenting and learning from novel practices that provide growing confidence in creative thinking. New practice gives us all the chance to start such totally fresh thinking, they challenge existing paradigms and move you towards considering new business models.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It seems that many people lack the capacity, confidence, and competence, to underpin their balance, well-being, and resilience, which resources their ability and GRIT to engage fully in transformation and change initiatives. Being empathic, compassionate, and appreciative, and engaging in self-care activities and well-being practices.

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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.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

A positive, engaging workplace culture can attract and retain talented employees, increase productivity, and even improve financial performance. Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, says “We want employees to be able to work where they feel most creative and productive” (Kelly, 2020). Increase Engagement by Making Room for Relationships.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Legacy, leadership, cultures, and processes, are inherited from the past industrial economy of standalone businesses where the scale was achieved through mass production, tailored to the producer’s needs of providing products that worked but necessarily in alignment to the customer’s needs.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 4, 2019

Where people will maximize the use of all three modalities, our heads, hearts and hands to fill the interpersonal and creative roles that will be hardest of all to mechanize. The imagination age is a theoretical period beyond the information age where creativity and imagination will become the primary creators of economic value.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

“Buy in from staff on the new vision and the required change” 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto. Engaging Employees in High Turnover Situations. Creative Thinking Skills – 5 People Vital to Critical Thinking, Literally. 5 Keys to Streamlining Strategic Planning.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. Support staff to engage in open innovation with customers. Social media : Participate in social media by asking questions, commenting and engaging with your fans. Begin with the End . How to Connect with Customers.

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Wazoku

DECEMBER 20, 2018

There are six pillars which define culture within an organisation and one of the key things to remember is that it’s everyone’s responsibility, not just the leadership team. These spaces offer employees and related connections a creative space to work, knowing that the time and energy dedicated to innovation is valued.

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Cris Beswick

MARCH 14, 2024

At its core, Innovation is about identifying and creatively solving problems to deliver new value. As I describe throughout my book, the tone set by senior leaders is critical when it comes to sparking and scaling creative thinking as innovation efforts flounder without the right vision and commitment from the top.

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Phil McKinney

JULY 31, 2023

In the 21st Century, the leadership landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace. The need for change is more pertinent now than ever before, as traditional leadership models prove insufficient in addressing the complexities of our modern world. And leaders who are not able to adapt are being left behind.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 19, 2018

TOPICS INCLUDE: Culture of Innovation, Creative Thinking, Idea Generation, Brainstorm Facilitation, Storytelling, Leadership, Mindset, Teamwork & Collaboration, Meeting Mastery, Listening & Feedback, Problem Solving, and Employee Engagement. HOW IT WORKS: 1.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2017

TOPICS INCLUDE: Creative Thinking, Culture of Innovation, Brainstorm Facilitation, Storytelling, Leadership, Mindset, Motivation, Collaboration, Facilitation, Listening, Humor, and Change. And it only requires 15 minutes per week. HOW IT WORKS: 1. StrategicPlanning.jpg.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

TOPICS INCLUDE: Mindset, Culture of Innovation, Creative Thinking, Idea Generation, Brainstorm Facilitation, Storytelling, Leadership, Teamwork/Collaboration, Listening/Feedback, Problem Solving. You and I have a 20-minute phone conversation about WHY you want to raise the bar for innovation and creativity in your organization.

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Planview

MAY 10, 2016

Your Creative Power. A friend of mine runs the innovation and creativity practice at a large, global firm. He turned me onto the book, Your Creative Power: How to Use Imagination to Brighten Life and to Get Ahead , by Alex Osborn. Excerpt on “employee suggestion systems” from Your Creative Power from 1948.

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Planview

MAY 10, 2016

Your Creative Power. A friend of mine runs the innovation and creativity practice at a large, global firm. He turned me onto the book, Your Creative Power: How to Use Imagination to Brighten Life and to Get Ahead , by Alex Osborn. Excerpt on “employee suggestion systems” from Your Creative Power from 1948.

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 30, 2015

In fact, if you go way back in history, many cultures believed that the most brilliant and creative minds were the result of a unique relation with a mythical being such as a muse or even a daemon. Innovative thinking doesn’t seem that accessible to everyone when we hold such a belief…. Reward Creative Thinking.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 26, 2020

This is particularly engaging because solving problems is directly rooted in our evolutionary need to innovate. Uncover hidden motivation: needs, wants, and beliefs: Now deeper truths can emerge; try to combine your clues and meanings to form a hunch and a creative new belief about the world. Connect Where is this problem?

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