BrainZooming

MARCH 22, 2017

Keeping with the eight theme, here are eight new questions from the Brainzooming R&D Lab to boost your creative thinking skills. There are two extreme creativity questions to stimulate breakthrough ideas from four perspectives: Aspiration, Authority, Disruption, and doing More. He wondered how he could get them.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

Sometimes creative thinking challenges come from inside your own head. In many organizations, however, substantial creative thinking challenges come from leaders and cultures that may say they want new thinking, but seem to do everything they can to scuttle creativity. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Innovation in Practice

APRIL 25, 2021

A study that proves people are more willing to help you than you think. Where to ask for help in the context of creativity. How to practice this method over email. Resources from this episode: Downloadable scorecard to rate your idea. “If Just fill in your information below to download it. Flynn and Vanessa Lake.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2017

Short Story: Look for specifics and things that people can actually do or perform to move creative thinking into action. How do you move from creative thinking into action? Two of the client’s senior staff members said this was a question they expected us to answer during the strategic thinking workshop.

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Innovation in Practice

MARCH 28, 2021

How to achieve the sweet spot of innovation in terms of gender roles. The implications of gender role differences and gender bias in creativity. Downloadable scorecard to rate your idea. Just fill in your information below to download it. Resources from this episode: Study: Role Expectations as Constraints to Innovation.

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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 move an organization and its strategy from reactive to proactive?

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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.

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Innovation in Practice

JANUARY 3, 2021

But does this apply to creative thinking as well? As leaders, we need to be more aggressive, take more risks, and challenge ourselves to think bigger. In this episode, I’m teaching you a quick way to boost your creative thinking and improve the quality and originality of your ideas.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We’re with a client today, delivering a strategic and creative thinking skills for sales workshop. As an outgrowth of the workshop, here is a strategic and creative thinking skills compilation comprised of articles that support the Brainzooming workshop we’re delivering. How to Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone.

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BrainZooming

MAY 3, 2016

We were working with a client and sharing the value of our extreme creativity strategic exercises to boost creative thinking skills. Another reason to embrace extreme creativity questions is they provide a more beautiful, amazing mental landscape to inspire creative thinking skills.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 11, 2015

I had a Twitter question from Charles Westscott about creativity and how to make money from your passion. Brainzooming how to get paid as a creative is my struggle. 5 Ideas for How to Make Money from Your Passion and Creativity. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

As a result, the pressure for inspiration and creative thinking was always dependent on me. What did I need to do to trigger creative thinking? At some point, God provided the grace to realize my creative inspiration was from outside, not inside. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 6, 2016

We’re developing a strategic thinking webinar for a client on cultivating and sustaining creativity among its salesforce. Since the webinar is with the organization’s sales leadership, the focus is on creative thinking skills they can and should be embracing to help their salespeople see opportunities in new ways.

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Innovation in Practice

APRIL 18, 2021

I’m just trying to remind you that your smartphone is a major distraction and that distraction is the enemy of creative thinking. We can’t just get up every morning and spend hours thinking silently. So, in this episode, I’m going to teach you how to be creative despite all of your distractions and clutter.

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Innovation in Practice

APRIL 4, 2021

Today, let me share with you some ideas about how to apply creative thinking to a nonprofit organization. 3 key areas for being creative in the nonprofit world . Downloadable scorecard to rate your idea. Just fill in your information below to download it. In this episode you’ll hear: SIT Review.

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Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Becoming more creative will change every aspect of your life for the better. I also explain how it’s used in our creative thinking and creative output. I believe that time should be a regular part of your creative output. How putting time constraints on a project can make you more creative.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

We’re developing a workshop on creative thinking techniques for a B2B salesforce in a few weeks. Reviewing the attendees’ pre-workshop surveys on their expectations, personal learning objectives, and needs for creative thinking development, they mentioned “thinking outside the box” and “how to get out of my comfort zone” frequently.

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Michael Michalko

DECEMBER 10, 2021

After leaving the military, Michael facilitated CIA think tanks using his creative thinking techniques. Michael later applied these creative-thinking techniques to problems in the corporate world with outstanding successes. Thinkertoys: The Best Creative Problem-Solving Book of all Time. Chuck Frey.

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BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

Depending on the nature of the pre-meeting outreach you conduct with participants, it can promote team collaboration and help: Get to know participants better and figure out how to best work with them. Gain a sense of what people already think. Better strategize how to introduce challenging points of view.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 15, 2016

And remember that when you are working creatively with a group, be sure to make creative room for others! – Mike Brown. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and ideas!

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BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

She said she didn’t think about developing creative ideas like this at all. That’s fair; maybe the CPR is too calculated (pun kind of intended) for people who are pure creatives. I’m manufacturing creative ideas, no imagining them from pure inspiration. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

JULY 31, 2017

Not wanting to stop the presentation to figure out how to the legs worked, I leaned the easel pad against the giant TV on the shelving unit behind me, attempting to use it to stabilize the paper pad. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

We routinely ask those of you downloading Brainzooming strategy and innovation eBooks to share – if you are willing – the opportunities and challenges you are facing at the time. “Stickler to the old ways of doing things (and) not willing to get out of the comfort zone” How to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 28, 2017

In place of only recycling ideas, try these nine strategic thinking questions and creative thinking paths. The formula is to ask a specific question, LISTEN for responses from others, and follow a related creating thinking direction to generate ideas more quickly: Ask: What’s been tried before?

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. How to Connect with Customers. If you’d like to skip ahead, you can download the entire chapter today. Your team, unit, division, and even enterprise should know what is most important to your customers. Begin with the End .

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Some of Michael’s creative-thinking techniques that were refined by his government and corporate practice were published in his best-seller Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity) , which the Wall Street Journal reported “will change the way you think.” Who can benefit from Thinkertoys?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

We’ll figure out how to turn insights, ideas, and initiatives into realities that actually move your business ahead! FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 2, 2016

We were leading a creative thinking workshop for a subsidiary of a German-owned, privately-held company. One of the executives (who was a fantastic participant and brought a double dose of creativity to any group in which he was in) said at one point, “All I can hear are the ‘rules’ and the ‘nos’ with every new idea!”.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Strategic Thinking Perspectives – Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team. Creative Thinking Skills – Using Questions and Structure Successfully. Creating Strategic Impact – How to Start? FREE Download: “Results!!! Just Start! Mike Brown. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results.

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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. They provided input on the biggest impact ideas and how to enrich other strategies through additional creative thinking exercises.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

Executives that SHOULD know how to develop and write a strategic plan struggled. Creative thinking exercises generate ideas, not facts. Despite similarities, a sales planning workshop’s success depended tremendously on how knowledgeable the sales participants were. 5 Keys to Streamlining Strategic Planning.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Frequently, when I write a story along the lines of how to fake it until you make it some folks will say you should never fake it. FREE Download: “Results!!! Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

It seems ridiculous to help a company become better at strategic thinking and marketing without being allowed to tell them how to do it. While this constraint may seem (and actually be) ridiculous, it shaped how the Brainzooming method developed. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 13, 2015

How can fast can you get ready and go with this newly swerved and integrated idea? In a recent creative thinking workshop, we spent significant time discussing how to enable consumers to customize and personalize a product. Download this free, concise eBook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

This Harvard Business Review article outlines how memory and the way you define or explain a problem can help you find the right solution. This downloadable guide provides a framework for asking better questions and re-framing problems to lead to a better solution. Be a Great Boss by Being a Creative Leader. Impossible!

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help you generate extreme creativity and ideas! Copyright 2008, Mike Brown. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 9, 2017

So please, please, please: learn how to use technology, already. Stop finding clever ways to avoid doing tech-related things because you don’t want people to think you’re too old. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. You have that aforementioned breadth, depth, and context.

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