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Creative Thinking Skills – Protecting Yourself from Creative Thinking Challenges

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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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Creative Thinking Skills – 9 Fundamentals to Turn Talk into Strategy

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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Creative Thinking Activities – 3 Questions to Stop Squandering Diversity

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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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Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas

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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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Strategic Planning Exercises – Two Types of Structure, One Works

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. Many consultants focus only on the first type of structure.

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Strategic Thinking Exercise – 4 Ways to Examine Brand Performance

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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Strategic Thinking Exercises – 11 Things Running through a Facilitator’s Head

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for an industrial company. The company wants to make significant changes to a major production process. During the innovation strategy discussions, we addressed the production process changes from five different perspectives. Are we done yet?

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Strategic Thinking Exercise – An Alternative Vision Statement Approach

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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Answering Reader Questions on Strategy and Innovation Challenges

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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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Strategic Planning – 10 Keys to Collaborative Strategy

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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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Team Collaboration – 14 Benefits from Pre-Meeting Outreach

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MAY 9, 2017

In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! , we share common situations standing in the way of successfully implementing your most important strategies. Creative Thinking: What Is the Right Size for a Brainstorming Group? 5 Ways to Start Implementing Faster and Better!

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5 Keys to Streamlining Strategic Planning

BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

Most executives can’t write a strategy plan, so don’t make them. Since strategy planning is an infrequent activity, it is difficult for executives to master it. We learned that if we asked executives a series of questions leading to the information needed to complete a strategy plan, they became productive strategy planners.

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Strategic Planning – 3 Surprising Ways Online Collaboration Works

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. When discussing a strategic planning or innovation strategy engagement with a client, we use the graphic below to design our recommended approach.

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11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun*

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Part of making strategic planning fun involves fun exercises , which we continue to create and share here. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy and then turn it into results. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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41 Surprising Things about Community Collaboration Done Well

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OCTOBER 1, 2015

In nearly every Brainzooming community collaboration workshop, we conclude with a Plus-Minus-Interesting-Recommendation-Question exercise (a PMIRQ for short). Effective Exercises and Process. Loved the Boom / Bust exercise.”. Exercises presented to gain focus on a certain area.”. Required a lot of critical thinking”.

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5 Employee Engagement Ideas When Turnover Is High

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APRIL 22, 2016

Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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Community Collaboration Workshops Come in All Sizes

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

On Wednesday, I delivered the closing keynote at the Real Time Marketing Lab with a mini-workshop on using strategic thinking super models to help C-suite executives understand social networking and content marketing strategy. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results.

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Creative Thinking Skills – Protecting Yourself from Creative Thinking Challenges

Creative Thinking Skills – 9 Fundamentals to Turn Talk into Strategy

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Creative Thinking Activities – 3 Questions to Stop Squandering Diversity

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Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas

Strategic Planning Exercises – Two Types of Structure, One Works

Strategic Thinking Exercise – 4 Ways to Examine Brand Performance

Strategic Thinking Exercises – 11 Things Running through a Facilitator’s Head

Strategic Thinking Exercise – An Alternative Vision Statement Approach

Answering Reader Questions on Strategy and Innovation Challenges

Strategic Planning – 10 Keys to Collaborative Strategy

Team Collaboration – 14 Benefits from Pre-Meeting Outreach

5 Keys to Streamlining Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning – 3 Surprising Ways Online Collaboration Works

11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun*

41 Surprising Things about Community Collaboration Done Well

5 Employee Engagement Ideas When Turnover Is High

Community Collaboration Workshops Come in All Sizes

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