BrainZooming

JUNE 27, 2016

While there were a few presentations and ideas to stimulate our creative thinking skills, there were far too few for an all-day event. 3 Creative Thinking Skills Ideas from Gas Can 2016. Today, here are three valuable creative thinking skills ideas no matter where your creative community is located.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

Someone wondered about the range of topics included in the disruptive innovation strategy workshop we delivered recently. We led the group through a customized Brainzooming Innovation Fake Book of exercises. 27 Links to Energize Your Innovation Strategy. What is the first innovation strategy question to ask? The reason?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

For insights on orchestrating successful offsites, consider exploring leading executive team offsites for business strategy , which delves into best practices and effective leadership approaches. Let’s explore how you can create an environment conducive to collaboration and strategic thinking.

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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

These speakers cover a range of topics, from the innovation process to the creation of a culture that nurtures creativity and collaboration. Their talks are designed to provide you with strategies and practical tips that can be applied to foster a more innovative environment within your organization.

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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.

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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. Do You Want More Business? Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

The challenge in a client meeting was developing the strategy for a later meeting intended to build support for a biennial community event. The team leader asked, “How is it possible to listen to us talk and turn it into a strategy so quickly?”. 9 Creative Thinking Skills to Turn Talk into Strategy.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 8, 2016

It’s always incredible to work directly with Brainzooming blog readers in supporting their companies’ innovation strategy objectives. Last week, we presented a creative and strategic thinking workshop for a Brainzooming reader who leads the national sales division of a global industrial manufacturer.

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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. – Mike Brown.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

They play a pivotal role in providing insights and strategies that can transform the dynamics of team interaction and cooperation. Innovation Encouraging creative thinking and problem-solving as a group. Collaboration Fostering a collaborative mindset among team members.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Increased Trust : By participating in team-building exercises, employees develop deeper trust in their colleagues, which is crucial for successful collaboration. Innovation and Creativity : Virtual team building can stimulate creativity by encouraging members to think outside the box and bounce ideas off one another.

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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? This is why we run compilation articles frequently to help you find a comprehensive set of resources, exercises, and tools.

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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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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. For deeper insights on leading such initiatives, explore our article on leading executive team offsites for business strategy.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

Since all the companies competed with one another, each one needed to determine its own business strategies. It seems ridiculous to help a company become better at strategic thinking and marketing without being allowed to tell them how to do it. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

There are a couple of different ways to apply structure to strategic planning exercises : You can enforce using templates and forms participants have to complete so their answers are uniformed and structured. Productive Structure for Strategic Planning Exercises. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

MAY 4, 2016

Ever felt as if your main creative outlet just isn’t working anymore ? I’m WAY off my creative thinking game when it comes to putting pen to paper and fingers to keyboard. I have some ideas why this is the case, and have been trying to document the reasons my go-to creative outlet isn’t working right now.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 7, 2021

There are many different exercises that people use for innovation, but very few of them are as effective as mind mapping. If you want to learn more about collaboration and innovation, check out our article on design thinking. Mind maps also accomodate for different ideas that other note taking strategies struggle to entertain.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 19, 2015

What’s a “pizza meeting,” and what does it have to do with creative thinking? Back in the Fortune 500 days, we facilitated so many strategic planning workshop sessions we gave up renting creativity-oriented offsite locations. Yup, that’s a dirty little secret of creative thinking. What are my pizza meetings?

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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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BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2016

Here’s an idea for a new strategic thinking exercise that can be a big help. 4 Ways to Examine Brand Performance as a Strategic Thinking Exercise. This is definitely a strategic thinking exercise idea from the Brainzooming R&D lab. Actively engage more employees in strategy AND implementation success.

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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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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. “Buy in from staff on the new vision and the required change” 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto. .

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BrainZooming

MARCH 29, 2016

Creative Thinking Skills – Some Working, Some Not Working. Amid the odd times, it’s no surprise my creative thinking skills have varied widely the past few months. It’s also fair to share what creative thinking skills HAVEN’T been working lately: Trying to write on the iPad.

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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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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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BrainZooming

MARCH 17, 2017

Short Story: When it comes to creativity, start with and return to the underlying strategy ; that’s the most important piece of creative advice I have to offer. I’ve been trying to let go of some creative reins on the Brainzooming brand. 8 Pieces of Creative Advice from a Great and Horrible Client. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 3, 2018

And the best strategy to boost their creative leadership talents is to get copies of Idea Magnets: 7 Strategies for Attracting and Cultivating Creative Business Leaders for all your team members. This Brainzooming book demonstrates the value of stronger creativity. Embody Servant Leadership.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2018

Move to the Shrimp creative thinking exercise. Introduce an ice breaker exercise – even in the middle of the presentation (and do funny riffs on peoples’ answers). Use an exercise where everyone can participate simultaneously. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media.

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BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

Learning what participants in an upcoming big meeting know, think, and believe before they come together in a large group is one tactic to strengthen team collaboration. Gain a sense of what people already think. Learn what insights the participants already have and don’t have.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Success factors in strategic planning and creating collaborative strategy were the central topics we tackled on an edition of Smart Companies Radio, hosted by Kelly Scanlon, the owner of Thinking Bigger Business Media, Inc., 10 Keys to Collaborative Strategy and Strategic Planning. Creating Strategic Impact mini-book.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

You might learn more than people, or the objects you’re studying, superficially reveal.” Dean Simonton professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis “Know your stuff: creativity requires expertise; but don’t know it too well: overspecialisation puts blinders on. Listen carefully and pay close attention. I was stunned!

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 3, 2022

Best-selling creativity expert Michael Michalko shows that in every field of endeavor, from business and science to government, the arts, and even day-to-day life — natural creativity is limited by the prejudices of logic and the structures of accepted categories and concepts.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

Since we were learning as we went, some sessions worked better than others. We had the processes and exercises needed already developed buy had never put them all together to move from ideas to plans within a day or two. All they needed to do was review what we’d created and assign dates and names to strategies and tactics.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 23, 2015

We will also collaborate with you to turn them into reality with smart strategies and solid implementation plans. Along the way, your team will learn actionable creative thinking skills and dynamic strategy exercises that will serve them and your organization for years to come.

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