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. If you’re up for abruptly halting the cluster f%@k of the modern business meetings you attend, contact The Brainzooming Group ?

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Meeting Collaboration Creative Thinking Tips 40

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

It promotes disinhibition, reduces prejudice, encourages cross-disciplinary teamwork and co-creation, helps groups with very different profiles to speak the same language and achieves a level of engagement that drives participants to go one step further. When someone is playing, they lose all pretence.

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Creative Thinking Training Innovation Innovation Processes 53

BrainZooming

MARCH 28, 2017

If you face those types of situations, you know how nerve wracking it can be to have to go from “nice to meet you” to new business ideas in perhaps minutes. In place of only recycling ideas, try these nine strategic thinking questions and creative thinking paths. What is the most popular idea you have?

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Strategic Thinking eBook Creative Thinking Creativity 40

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

We’ll use highly productive strategic and creative thinking exercises. We’ve done this hundreds of times, so we know how to adapt our strategic planning methodology so it’s highly efficient for you. We bring the fun to strategic planning , so the time will zoom by more quickly than you can ever imagine.

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Exercises Strategic Thinking eBook Roadmap 74

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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Collaboration Creative Thinking Exercises Groups 40

Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Innovation in executive teams is not just about developing new products or services; it’s about fostering a culture of continuous improvement, strategic thinking, and adaptability. As an executive leader, I’m often tasked with driving innovation within my team to ensure our company remains at the forefront of our industry.

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Leadership Innovation Collaboration Culture 113

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. Making sure the meeting room isn’t cramped and uncomfortable. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Collaboration Groups 40

BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

The First Brainzooming Strategic Planning Workshop. Chuck facilitated multiple engaging, high-energy strategic innovation sessions for us at Yellow Corporation. Chuck’s creativity techniques and helped us generate tons of ideas. Afterward, they had the strategic plan!

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Exercises Strategic Thinking Strategy Strategy 67

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 21, 2016

I spent many late nights modifying each workshop format to change them enough to keep the participants (and me) engaged, mentally sharp, and creative. 9 Ways to Keep Strategic Planning Process Exercises Fresh Every Year. Go to different places than you have before for strategy meetings.

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Exercises eBook Strategic Thinking Groups 40

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 15, 2015

While having a daily deadline has become less stimulating creatively over the years, I shudder to think of how much experience and the number of strategic thinking exercises that would have come and gone without any documentation if not for the Brainzooming blog.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises eBook Guidelines 40

BrainZooming

AUGUST 30, 2016

There may be more, but thinking back on business collaborations from the past few years, those items characterize the decision making and expected impacts of our varied collaborations. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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Collaboration Strategy Strategy Creative Thinking 92

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Suppose you’re going into a meeting and taking over leadership of a team or initiative where those you will be leading have been involved and active previously. If you need to go into the meeting or new situation and move things forward with less knowledge and experience than you prefer, here are ways you can fake it until you make it.

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Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Creative Thinking Meeting 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? Every executive dreads strategic planning. 80 Fun Strategic Planning Activities and Ideas! We’ve been facilitating fun strategic planning activities for years.

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eBook Exercises Meeting Strategy 41

Idea Champions

JUNE 28, 2019

Thanks to Val and Mitch, we're challenging our assumptions, asking the right questions, and using creative thinking techniques to bring our best ideas forward." - Natalie Giordano, Director, Purple Strategies "Idea Champions' three-day Conducting Genius training was engaging, fun and informative.

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Brainstorming Training Creativity Ideation 22

KindlingApp

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

As they work to develop strategic thinking about innovation program goals and aims, leadership often holds closed-door meetings where key stakeholders attempt to identify the problems and projects that they'll challenge their innovators to solve or advance. Optimize for Serendipity. Allow Your Teams to Fail (Sometimes).

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Innovation Programs Innovation Crowdsourcing Creativity 40