InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 6, 2022

“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!” “Make Your Stories Come Alive: Learn the Fundamentals of Storytelling!”

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from daily operations, you and your team can focus on long-term goals, engage in deep discussions, and forge stronger bonds. Start with a clear opening session that sets expectations and objectives, followed by a mix of breakout groups, workshops, and plenary sessions.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

By highlighting stories of successful innovation and providing actionable strategies, a keynote speaker can empower attendees to think differently and act boldly. Engaging and Dynamic Presentation Style The ability to captivate an audience is a crucial aspect of a corporate event speaker’s role.

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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. Thursday included working with a local non-profit to develop the strategic foundation for an important initiative, along with developing initial themes from the Carbondale community collaboration workshops.

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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. Be very silent (uncomfortably silent) until the audience notices and re-engages.

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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. The First Brainzooming Strategic Planning Workshop. Chuck facilitated multiple engaging, high-energy strategic innovation sessions for us at Yellow Corporation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

XQ refers to the ability to draw from past experiences, learnings, and insights to make better decisions, solve complex problems, and navigate the uncertainties of the corporate world. Additionally, learn how to maximize team performance by leveraging experiential intelligence to create psychology safety for high performing teams.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Engaging in this practice equips you with a clearer understanding of where your organization stands and where it needs to go, helping to navigate through competitive and rapidly changing markets. Engagement : Increases engagement and ownership among team members by involving them in the strategic process.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Facilitate Brainstorming Sessions: Regularly scheduled brainstorming sessions can ignite creative thinking and encourage team members to bounce ideas off one another. Emphasizing Continuous Learning and Adaptability The only constant in today’s business world is change.

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Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Easy to work with, customer-focused, and highly experienced, he knows how to engage even the most curmudgeonly of audiences. captivated our audience by engaging them in his interactive keynote and workshop and provided attendees with useful tools to apply in their workplaces. What I found surpassed my greatest expectations.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 19, 2018

Flying in an outside consultant to lead a workshop or training can sometimes be cost prohibitive. You and I have a 15-minute phone conversation about WHY you want to raise the bar for innovation and creativity in your organization. NOTE: This is micro-learning, not head-banging. Our workshops and trainings. His clients.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 30, 2021

We’ve researched worked with teams all over the world to build better innovative training sessions, brainstorms, workshops, meetings, and more. From hackathons to stand up meetings and everything in between, we understand that a more collaborative approach can make a massive difference in boosting efficiency, creativity, and effectiveness.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Flying in an outside consultant to lead a workshop or training can sometimes be cost prohibitive. TOPICS INCLUDE: Creative Thinking, Culture of Innovation, Brainstorm Facilitation, Storytelling, Leadership, Mindset, Motivation, Collaboration, Facilitation, Listening, Humor, and Change. Our workshops and trainings.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Flying in an outside consultant to lead a workshop or training can sometimes be cost prohibitive. TOPICS INCLUDE: Mindset, Culture of Innovation, Creative Thinking, Idea Generation, Brainstorm Facilitation, Storytelling, Leadership, Teamwork/Collaboration, Listening/Feedback, Problem Solving. Our workshops and trainings.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 28, 2023

The potential outcomes include people experiencing more positive emotions, increased engagement at work, increased development of positive relationships, and more meaningful and purposeful work. They discovered three surprising truths about well-being, including: Workers’ resilience levels are waning.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 30, 2016

I mentioned upcoming business collaboration opportunities for Brainzooming yesterday , including co-presentations, creating content, and developing new workshop and training offerings. There is a mutual commitment to learning from the business collaboration. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic 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. Sometimes we use online collaboration within an in-person strategic planning workshop. There really are all kinds of possibilities.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Icebreakers can also be used throughout the retreat to facilitate different groupings with creative thinking and problem solving purposes. Why are they personally engaged and invested in the organization and its goals moving forward? We have facilitated over 100 onsite and virtual leadership retreat style events and workshops.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 26, 2022

These processes can each guide us, depending upon our goals, knowledge, and values surrounding stakeholder engagement. It is characterized by constant iteration and collaboration, where the group’s learning is applied to continuous improvement of ideas. “Agile” and “Waterfall” offer us very different approaches to project management.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

“Buy in from staff on the new vision and the required change” 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto. Engaging Employees in High Turnover Situations. Creative Thinking Skills – 5 People Vital to Critical Thinking, Literally. 5 Keys to Streamlining Strategic Planning.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

In nearly every Brainzooming community collaboration workshop, we conclude with a Plus-Minus-Interesting-Recommendation-Question exercise (a PMIRQ for short). The open-ended questions in a PMIRQ allow participants to share invaluable reactions and ideas; we use them directly to shape what we do in future innovation workshops.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

A positive, engaging workplace culture can attract and retain talented employees, increase productivity, and even improve financial performance. In our final installment, we’ll show the importance of a positive workplace culture, and the role of engagement, support, and reliability. Increase Engagement by Making Room for Relationships.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 18, 2019

We need to connect multiple thinking, diversity and different experiences that so often diverge initially to then collectively find the path to converge, in a common understanding, to translate the combined creative thinking into real action, achieving valuable outcomes.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for an industrial company. In each of the five mini-innovation strategy workshops, we had a group of core team members, plus people familiar with each perspective. And how much time do I have to get ready before the next workshop? Are we done yet?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

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? Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy. What to Blog About?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

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. Designing strategic thinking questions leading to engaging conversation among familiar and new participants. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

First: the workshops, keynotes, deep-dives and panels were excellent. Even cynical types were openly surprised at the insights and learnings. 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. What’s Next?

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 8, 2017

In honor of the fact that a goldfish's attention span (9 seconds) is one second longer than a human being's (8 seconds), Idea Champions is now offering a bold, new, online, micro-learning curriculum for time-crunched people for who want to leverage the power of storytelling in the workplace. NOTE: This is micro-learning, not head-banging.

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ImagineNation

JULY 23, 2018

Lead from behind to harness & mobilize people’s potential because they know that skills like creativity & complex problems solving are the result of collaborative efforts, facilitated through teaming & networking across diverse groups, often in different locations. On the job” & “lifelong” learning in 21 st century leadership.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 15, 2015

If we’re headed into a client session or a meeting and need a few creative thinking questions, I visit the blog and grab suitable questions from one of our compilation posts. Email us at info@brainzooming.com or call us at 816-509-5320 to learn how we can deliver these benefits for you.

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Wazoku

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Taking risk and learning from failure. When risks are taken, pivot quickly if those risks fail so everyone involved can learn from their experiences and adapt. These spaces offer employees and related connections a creative space to work, knowing that the time and energy dedicated to innovation is valued. Everyone felt it.”. “A

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

During in-person and online strategic planning workshops , we regularly use a strategic thinking exercise that helps leadership groups quickly identify a shared future vision statement. Participants assess where they think the organization currently is and where they want it to be in the future on multiple “strategic dimensions.”

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Since 1987, I have been providing consulting and training services to a wide variety of forward thinking organizations who have recognized their need to raise the bar for creative thinking, innovation, and teamwork. Some of these learning obstacles are internal (i.e. If you don't want to learn something new, you won't.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 26, 2023

Since 1987, I have been providing consulting and training services to a wide variety of forward thinking organizations who have recognized their need to raise the bar for creative thinking, innovation, and teamwork. Some of these learning obstacles are internal (i.e. If you don't want to learn something new, you won't.

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Idea Champions

JULY 4, 2020

Since 1987, I have been providing consulting and training services to a wide variety of forward thinking organizations who have recognized their need to raise the bar for creative thinking, innovation, and teamwork. Some of these learning obstacles are internal (i.e. If you don't want to learn something new, you won't.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 17, 2017

She preferred nondescript hotel rooms, away from home, to get her creative juices flowing. Companies such as the construction company Mirvac has separate spaces designated for innovation where people from diverse teams collaborate for projects and workshops, thereby accelerating transformation.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. Far too often, engaging and innovative meetings are rare and fall short of accomplishing their goals. The top innovative companies in the world know that hosting effective, engaging meetings makes all the difference. Idea Sharing.

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