Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

These speakers cover a range of topics, from the innovation process to the creation of a culture that nurtures creativity and collaboration. Their talks are designed to provide you with strategies and practical tips that can be applied to foster a more innovative environment within your organization.

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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. Implementation: 6 Questions to Help You Design Innovative Meetings.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 30, 2023

We need to navigate a very different terrain that requires a deeper investment in skill development in a culture of continual learning. Here, the focus is on encouraging clients to invest in continuous learning and skill enhancement as not just a recommendation – but a necessity. Any journey begins by taking the first step.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2017

This is part two of my thoughts that came out of investigating and researching design thinking in the past couple of weeks. Within these two posts, I want to provide my thoughts, bridging the present and pointing towards a better design thinking future, one that in my opinion, is urgently needed. Part one is here.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 27, 2016

While there were a few presentations and ideas to stimulate our creative thinking skills, there were far too few for an all-day event. 3 Creative Thinking Skills Ideas from Gas Can 2016. Today, here are three valuable creative thinking skills ideas no matter where your creative community is located.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 19, 2022

Committing to becoming a far more innovative company requires training people on the tools and methods, introducing more risk and uncertainty in the business and experiencing occasional learning experiences that others might call failures. But innovation and design thinking have something to offer here.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

They requested a follow-up innovation workshop to inspire bigger, further out thinking. We brought two specific inspirations to the innovation workshop: extreme and analogy-based creative thinking exercises. You will learn effective, proven ways to move your implementation plan forward with greater speed and success.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I wanted to build out some thinking based on the question, “Can we unlock the innovator’s potential through understanding their sensory and cognitive abilities?” Cognitive Functions: Enable the encoding of sensory experiences into short-term and long-term memory, influencing future perceptions and learning.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

To support you in building out your innovation competencies, capabilities and capacity that requires a deeper investment in skill development in a culture of continual learning. It is a journey of building innovation, fitness and dynamics drawn out in a new way of thinking and design within innovation ecosystems.

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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. The certain way, however, was a way completely of their own design. What are my pizza meetings?

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2023

I had a most enjoyable and rewarding conversation last week on Innovation and Ecosystem design. So where would we place Sensory acuity or awareness, alongside or ranked in broader cognitive abilities and capacity to learn, absorb and interpret? It interacts with and complements broader cognitive functions.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 6, 2022

AI can be a powerful tool to use in your innovation, design thinking, or ideation projects. “Turn Ordinary into Extraordinary: Learn the Art of Storytelling!” “Share Your Stories with the World: Learn the Craft of Storytelling!” “Bring Your Stories to Life: Learn How to Tell an Engaging Tale!”

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Curious : Exhibiting a strong desire to learn and understand more. By identifying these traits, organizations can pinpoint the individuals most likely to succeed in roles that require innovative thinking and leadership. Encouraging a Mindset of Continuous Learning Continuous learning is the bedrock of innovation.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

9 Creative Thinking Skills to Turn Talk into Strategy. The team leader’s question prompted this list of 9 creative thinking skills that help turn strategic conversations (or even conversations that seem like talking without any particular strategic focus) into something that feels like strategy.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I have written extensively, certainly over the past eighteen months, about our need to take innovation into a new era, designed for today and tomorrow’s “fit for purpose” Below you will see my view of how I see this sketched out, as my suggested concept outline. Does it make sense?

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 15, 2020

Learn what works in innovation from these ten books. Part of building a great innovation strategy is to learn about the history of innovation. Thinkertoys , by Michael Michalko Creative thinking can be a struggle for some. Learning is part of innovation, and it never stops.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 9, 2024

The service we provide is the distillation of what we've learned, since 1987, designing and facilitating more 1,500 creative thinking sessions for 130 organizations in 11 countries. Bottom line, we know how to open the floodgates of creativity. How to address these issues is often a challenge for teams.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Here are some key considerations when selecting communication tools: Ease of Use : Select user-friendly platforms to minimize learning curves and encourage adoption. Additionally, explore our resources on remote team collaboration to learn more about creating a collaborative atmosphere in a virtual setting.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

When you are undertaking such a transformation in any system like energy, innovation becomes vital to inject new forces of dynamism and creative thinking to tackling such a change. It is their combined disciplines and understanding that can push design and solutions in a continued, innovative way.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Innovation Encouraging creative thinking and problem-solving as a group. Team-Building Keynote Presentations Team-building keynote presentations are designed to foster stronger bonds and improve the collaborative spirit among team members. Engaging Presentation Style Keeps the audience invested and facilitates learning.

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Innov8rs

AUGUST 28, 2023

Innov8rs | Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and simply the abundance of easily accessible data means that the world is being put on a level playing field when it comes to analytical thinking. This is lateral and creative thinking. If you’re designing a flying car, focus on the wings before designing the wheels.

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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.

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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. Learn more about enhancing virtual team productivity and remote team collaboration to overcome these obstacles.

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 25, 2022

The Tech Backstage Podcast is a live streamed video podcast that goes behind the scenes with today’s leaders of industry to learn what technologies are solving business problems, and how Design Thinking applied to the future of technology is impacting the world. Anyone can learn to be creative if they put in the effort.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

Learn how to make the most of your culture in this regard by visiting our insightful piece on leverage organizational culture for greater business agility and resilience. They can include logos, office designs, company slogans, and even the jargon used within the workforce.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 31, 2020

Restructuring deliberately to force change into ‘our’ system in our thinking, in our habits, in our expectations. Unlock and seek out opportunities to learn, to be trained in new thinking, different techniques and methods. Find your “innovation champions” to listen too and to learn from.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 26, 2017

We need to do better, we need to design a completely new innovation process that takes into account all that has evolved in our understanding and experiment in recent years. We design the innovation system we need after we know what we are trying to achieve in the challenge or idea. A new cycle of innovation.

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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.

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

Gregg Fraley, master creativity and innovation facilitator takes you through a creative thinking/facilitation tool, just one per session. Gregg Fraley is a highly experienced facilitator who’s been learning, developing, and inventing group facilitation tools for many years.

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

Creative Corner Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. Stock the area with books, videos on creativity, as well as learning games and such toys as beanbags and modeling clay. Let’s Do Lunch Encourage weekly lunch-time meeting of three to five employees to engage in creative thinking.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 3, 2024

Karen Blakeley in “Leadership Blind Spots and What to Do about Them,” a blind spot is “a regular tendency to repress, distort, dismiss or fail to notice information, views or ideas in a particular area that results in an individual failing to learn, change or grow in response to changes in that area.”

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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. Vadeboncoeur" is a French word that translates as "go with a good heart."

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Idea Champions

JUNE 21, 2021

We call it Conducting Genius -- the simplest, most time-efficient way we can think of to help our clients become masterful brainstorm facilitators. We custom design the training (from this curriculum ). No off-sites required. No two-day training sessions. We agree on a schedule of trainings (1-2 times per week). Client testimonials.

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

Creative Corner Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. Stock the area with books, videos on creativity, as well as learning games and such toys as beanbags and modeling clay. Let’s Do Lunch Encourage weekly lunch-time meeting of three to five employees to engage in creative thinking.

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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. NOTE: This is micro-learning, not head-banging. Master storyteller. His clients.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2018

Seeing the question about how to boost an audience’s energy level ahead of time (and knowing they’ll want specifics), prompted this list of thirty things I’ve done during my career of designing and delivering interactive presentations and workshops. Move to the Shrimp creative thinking exercise.

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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. NOTE: This is micro-learning, not head-banging. One of our micro-learning partners And it only requires 15 minutes per week.

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