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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. Creative Thinking – 7 Keys to How “Idea Magnets” Boost Creativity. I like the concept, a lot. Successful Implementation.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 4, 2016

What mix of creative diversity will drive implementation? That is a great lesson whenever you are thinking about selecting a diverse group of participants for a strategic or creative thinking workshop. Ultimately, business creativity is about creating strategic impact. Mike Brown.

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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. Often, however, executives jump too quickly to flying everyone into one place for a big strategic planning meeting.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 12, 2017

Occasionally, someone participating in a strategy workshop filled with innovative ideas will complain that a lot, or maybe all (REALLY? Other times it means giving old ideas a new day and putting solid tactics and strategic project management planning behind them to move them from ideas to implementation.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

In any event, here are 11 boring details that lead to strategic planning-grade fun! 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. Making sure the meeting room isn’t cramped and uncomfortable.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

First: the workshops, keynotes, deep-dives and panels were excellent. While it was primarily enforced via the honor system (and an email/text area had been designated in one of the buildings), most attendees successfully disconnected. Mike Brown Founder of The Brainzooming Group, and an expert on strategy, creativity, and innovation.

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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.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Proper communication is the way to spread the innovation message and inspire people to join the ‘new way of working’; to prove that innovation creates value for the company, the employees, for the customers and possibly for the society; to diffuse great ideas and change how products are conceived, designed and built. Measure, Assess, Adjust.

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