BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Based on all The Brainzooming Group experience in helping clients generate new ideas and innovative strategies, diversity is vital to successful creative thinking activities. For example, at one of our client creative thinking workshops there wasn’t any of diversity to spare.

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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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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. The impact of an effective keynote address can resonate long after the event, influencing corporate strategies and individual initiatives alike.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Higher Employee Engagement and Satisfaction: A collaborative atmosphere can lead to higher levels of engagement, as team members feel valued and part of the company’s success. For guidance on how to nurture a team that values diversity, explore our insights on team collaboration strategies.

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Underperforming Technical Team Collaboration Creativity Software Review 113

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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Creativity Brainstorming Creative Thinking Handbook 105

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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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2018

For the closing song, the group played their version of Chuck Berry’s Roll Over, Beethoven. Brainzooming as the blues scale of strategy, innovation, and branding? It’s like the secret to creative success for everyone ! This Brainzooming strategy eBook features links to 600 proven questions for: Developing Strategy.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 27, 2015

The Long Answer – Strategy, Creativity, and Innovation. The reason is that working from the incredible resource of strategic thinking exercises, creative thinking tools, and collaborative models The Brainzooming Group has created, what Brainzooming does can vary dramatically for each client engagement.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Intelligent use of resources manifests in improved internal functions, delightful customer experiences, productive partnerships, winning competitive strategies, and other areas. Channel : This is the creative thinking part. Crowdsourcing at this stage is focused on practical strategies for how to do the work.

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Collaboration Crowdsourcing Ideation Exercises 52

ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

We can be proactive by asking these two generative questions: What if the true potential of AI lies in embracing its ability to augment human creativity and aid innovation, especially in enhancing creative problem solving, at all levels of civil society, instead of avoiding it?

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Generative AI Creativity Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 59

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

For as much as we share about the Brainzooming approach to strategy, creativity, and innovation, I still frequently get the question, “What is it The Brainzooming group does?”. Probably both intentionally and unintentionally, we are vague in describing a specific set of services and products The Brainzooming Group delivers.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2018

Who wouldn’t want to have explicit permission, even encouragement, to routinely make mistakes with your innovation strategy? An article in The Wall Street Journal addressed this issue relative to baseball and how the strategies many major league baseball teams are using to improve player performance translate to typical office settings.

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Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 72

BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2018

Perhaps the most important way to boost an audience’s energy level is number thirty: we make every attempt to design any Brainzooming workshop to re-energize the group throughout the time together. Be very silent (uncomfortably silent) until the audience notices and re-engages. Move to the Shrimp creative thinking exercise.

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Exercises Creative Thinking Creativity Groups 81

Idea Champions

JANUARY 24, 2020

One of our online creative thinking tools. Client testimonials. More client testimonials. What PR firms say about our impact. A few case studies. Our 142-page brainstorm facilitation workbook. Our response to brainstorm session naysayers

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. Bezos took a strong stand that the company must not create a business strategy designed only to protect their existing business when their customers clearly wanted something else. Support staff to engage in open innovation with customers.

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Technical Review Handbook Innovation Groups 173

Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 25, 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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Brainstorming Creative Thinking Creativity Handbook 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We have released a host of eBooks on strategic planning exercises and ideas to increase collaboration, creative thinking, alignment, and successful implementation. The Results eBook makes our case for collaborative strategy planning among your organization’s employees (and even, in many cases, your customers).

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Exercises Tools eBook Strategic Thinking 94

BrainZooming

JUNE 5, 2018

An efficient AND effective innovation strategy adapts to a company’s business objectives, strategic priorities, and team. It doesn’t start with getting everyone together in a room for a creative thinking workshop and expecting innovative ideas to happen spontaneously. 5 Ways to Boost Your Innovation Strategy’s Efficiency.

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Analysis Strategic Thinking Survey Innovation 66

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. Sometimes they proceed an in-person strategy planning meeting, but not always. There really are all kinds of possibilities.

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Collaboration Creative Thinking Exercises Groups 40

InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 26, 2022

This article is adapted from his recent book, What Matters in This Moment: Leading Groups Through Uncertain Times. These processes can each guide us, depending upon our goals, knowledge, and values surrounding stakeholder engagement. Agile” and “Waterfall” offer us very different approaches to project management.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

It was what I’d imagined, as a child, that college would be like: a big group of friendly people who are genuinely excited about learning and doing good in the world. NEW FREE Download: 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. Identify alternative internal strategies to secure support.

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Conference Strategic Thinking Creativity Resources 74

PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 3, 2021

The point is, collaborative innovation software doesn’t just facilitate collaboration — its purpose is to bring data and people together so that untapped opportunities that align with business strategy can be commercialized. Speaking of engagement, let’s talk about gamification. It could be turned into a game. And the benefits?

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for an industrial company. During the innovation strategy discussions, we addressed the production process changes from five different perspectives. From a facilitation standpoint, it was the most arduous couple of days of going through strategic thinking exercises I recall.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Groups Strategy 40

Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

A positive, engaging workplace culture can attract and retain talented employees, increase productivity, and even improve financial performance. Over the course of this three-article series, we’ve combined established business strategies with human-centered work philosophies to build a foundation for high-performing teams.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

People ask me frequently about why we give away so much of what The Brainzooming Group does on our website. We, however, routinely share how we do things via our methodology, tools, and learnings from Brainzooming strategic thinking workshops. Why Do We Give Away So Many Strategic Thinking Exercises? What to Blog About?

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Creative Thinking eBook 40

Innovation Excellence

JUNE 4, 2020

There are few things more magical than watching a group of people come together to move toward a common goal, invest in themselves and one another, and lead innovation in their discipline. We’ll describe how we use flexible business and management strategies to develop high-performing teams and achieve rapid results in higher education.

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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? Extreme Creativity.

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Strategic Thinking eBook Creative Thinking Creativity 40

BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

You know, this week doesn’t have to be as unproductive as last week, what with business meetings going nowhere along with wasting time, positive energy, and any hope of creativity. The thing is, there’s a different way to structure business meetings to help a group come together and collaborate in an innovative, productive way.

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Meeting Collaboration Creative Thinking Tips 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

You can provide people with strategic thinking exercises, creative thinking tools, strategy questions, and ways to collaborate with one another, using structure to help imagine better strategies. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Exercises Strategic Thinking Collaboration Strategy 40

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Last week was diverse in the Brainzooming world, as we were engaged in serving clients across many different aspects of what we do. When people ask why I left the Fortune 500 world to start The Brainzooming Group in 2009, I tell them it wasn’t because of struggling with working for someone else and needing to run my own company.

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Collaboration Strategic Thinking Groups Engagement 40

BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

We introduced the first Brainzooming strategic planning workshop resembling what we do today as The Brainzooming Group ten years ago, June 19-20, 2006. Chuck facilitated multiple engaging, high-energy strategic innovation sessions for us at Yellow Corporation. Identify alternative internal strategies to secure support.

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Exercises Strategic Thinking Strategy Strategy 67

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Aggregate and organize the ideas before the meeting to identify new, overarching insights unknown to the group. Jot down your initial ideas on the direction you think the meeting / initiative should go and introduce them at an opportune time. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

I’m a strategic planning guy, and even I don’t enjoy strategic planning the way it is typically handled for groups. Designing strategic thinking questions leading to engaging conversation among familiar and new participants. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results. – Mike Brown.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Collaboration Groups 40

BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2017

Do you dread strategy meetings ? Really, we’re among friends, so you can be completely truthful in your answer: Do you REALLY, REALLY DREAD strategy meetings? That is why wrapping strategy meetings in creative thinking exercises and the appropriate amount of fun and diversion is optimum. Of course, you dread them.

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Idea Champions

JULY 11, 2021

Even if you find yourself in a room full of 10,000 left brainers, there are tons of ways to work with this mindset in service to bringing out the very best of the group's collective genius: 1. But DON'T get caught in a lengthy discussion about the collective limiting assumptions of the group. You don't want to feed that beast.

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Creativity Brainstorming Creative Thinking Groups 49

ImagineNation

MAY 30, 2023

They can polarize individuals into groups. Leaders and coaches can safely push people towards what is urgent and “necessary” to change to survive, and simultaneously pull them towards both the benefits, rewards, and desirability of the future state and towards mobilising them towards energetically engaging and enrolling in it.

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Leadership Technical Review Innovation Learning 59

BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

I asked them to engage in some strategic thinking about innovation opportunities for the company. They used that as a justification for opting out of strategic thinking. I reminded them (in case no one ever had) that they had a HUGE brand role no matter how narrow everyone thinks they are as a group.

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