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.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By removing distractions and dedicating time solely to strategic thinking, you create an atmosphere where creativity and big-picture thinking can thrive. It’s an opportunity for you and your executive team to step back, assess the business landscape, and align on the vision and direction of the company.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 13, 2020

But, as is always the case, when new methodologies arrive, there are some lingering doubts: can serious games generate a tangible output beyond contributing to team building and having fun? Besides being a new format that participants enjoy, playing enables better learning of key messages regarding attitudes.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A second great reason to consider holding a retreat is to improve team building and bonding. For organizations with multiple locations or fully remote or distributed teams, this retreat can be a crucial event to bring everyone together in the same place (in person or virtually). Focus on reflection. Conclusion.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Brian plays two inter-related roles in what some past and present clients refer to as our "boutique consulting and training company": Sales Director and Creative Thinking Facilitator. We like to think of Brian as a "polymath" -- a person of great learning in several fields of study.

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MAY 6, 2016

Dean related her internal entrepreneurship (or “intrapreneurship”) lessons in three areas of strategic thinking: building the team, creating the culture, and defining success. Building the Team. The first step in team building is identifying the rights tasks requiring entrepreneurism.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 7, 2017

LEARNING PLANS: Will there be chicken at your conference? Towards that end, long before your conference begins, attendees will commit to three things they want to learn at your event, three people they want to learn it from, and three things they can teach. storytelling, and creative thinking. Yes, there will be.

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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. How will you hold your team accountable after the meeting is complete?

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Rmukesh Gupta

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Last week I was invited to run a Design thinking experiential workshop for the STC conference in Bangalore. As I always believe, learning happens best when people have a lot of fun while learning. We then retain a lot of what we learn in that setting. This is again done individually first and shared with the team later.

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