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6 Creative Innovation Exercises for Online Whiteboards

IdeaScale

In order to get your creative juices flowing it can be important to engage in creative thinking exercises and practice ways you can improve your innovation process. Advantages of Creative Thinking Exercises. Here are some of the advantages of using creative thinking exercises.

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Creative Thinking Exercise – Rethinking Shrimp

BrainZooming

Sometimes you think you know best, only to find later that you have absolutely NO clue. As an example, I wrote some time back about the “Shrimp” creative thinking exercise we included during a creative thinking workshop for a regulated financial services company.

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Cuisine vs. Food: Why Specificity Makes or Breaks a Creative Thinking Workshop

BrainZooming

During the creative thinking workshop we facilitated inside an internal management meeting, participants worked through multiple exercises to identify ideas for internal and customer initiatives. Chuck shared the following example to push the participants toward greater specificity in the ideas they shared.

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WHAT CAN YOU INVENT USING THIS EXERCISE

Michael Michalko

Creative thinking requires the generation of associations and connection between two or more dissimilar and unrelated subjects. For example, the essence of “How to improve the can opener?” For example: Oysters open by relaxing a muscle. To restore the flow of current, the wire had to be spliced back together.

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7 Important Creative Thinking Skills

BrainZooming

We were on a call with an extended creative team generating ideas for client videos. During breaks, I found myself jotting down examples of important creative thinking skills the team was exhibiting. 7 Important Creative Thinking Skills. How are you doing on these 7 creative thinking skills?

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Creative Thinking Activities – 3 Questions to Stop Squandering Diversity

BrainZooming

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. – Mike Brown.

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Innovation Unleashed: Developing a Culture of Innovation in High Potential Leaders

Leapfrogging

Lead by Example : These leaders demonstrate innovative behavior, setting a precedent for others to follow. Share Stories of Risk and Reward : Highlight internal or external examples where taking risks led to breakthrough innovations or valuable learning experiences. Problem Solving The capacity to tackle complex challenges effectively.