Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Innovation and Creativity : Virtual team building can stimulate creativity by encouraging members to think outside the box and bounce ideas off one another. Learn more about enhancing virtual team productivity and remote team collaboration to overcome these obstacles.

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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. Even though the workshop spanned nearly ten hours over two days, we had to narrow the content significantly to achieve the client’s innovation objectives. 27 Links to Energize Your Innovation Strategy.

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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 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. 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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BrainZooming

MARCH 22, 2016

Delivering a creative thinking workshop , I was eavesdropping on conversations at five tables full of attendees. One group was starting to use one of our creative thinking exercises. They should inspire, not limit thinking. I gave each table a specific focus for identifying new ideas.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 15, 2016

Interestingly, the most challenging situation for Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop success is when it includes TOO MANY individuals viewing themselves as creative. Whenever you have too many “creatives” in the room, it can devolve into each one trying to outshine the others in extreme creativity.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I’ll be presenting on social media super models , followed by a VERY QUICK creative thinking exercises for sales presentation. The creative thinking exercises for sales content is a different take on both familiar and some new creative thinking topics. Force Yourself to Self-Evaluate.

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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

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. Since we were learning as we went, some sessions worked better than others. Afterward, they had the strategic plan!

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

Unpacking Organizational Culture Defining Organizational Culture Organizational culture embodies the collective values, beliefs, and principles of organizational members and is a product of such factors as history, product, market, technology, strategy, type of employees, management style, and national culture.

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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. ” Although these questions are valuable, I always imagine workshop audiences initially wondering about when they would use these since they typically lead to incredibly outrageous ideas.

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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. After one half-day workshop in the multipurpose room, we were getting ready to leave.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 1, 2023

It was partly through this conversation with Margot Nijkamp-Diesfeld and Rick Wielens of the Eco System Thinking Institute (ESTI), based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, that we got into the subject of creating different workshop concepts to stimulate those attending and draw out their greater awareness.

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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. Attract Opposites.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The week included: Large scale community collaboration workshops – Nearly eighty students from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale gathered Monday night and a comparable number of Carbondale, IL residents assembled on Tuesday for community collaboration workshops to imagine the community’s future with Gigabit Internet capabilities.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 6, 2016

We’re developing a strategic thinking webinar for a client on cultivating and sustaining creativity among its salesforce. Since the webinar is with the organization’s sales leadership, the focus is on creative thinking skills they can and should be embracing to help their salespeople see opportunities in new ways.

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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 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. Move to the Shrimp creative thinking exercise. Photo via Shutterstock.

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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. Buying a new giant pad of paper to map out Brainzooming workshops. Attempting to video a blog post before writing it.

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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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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

By sharing their expertise and experiences, a keynote speaker can challenge conventional thinking, encourage creative solutions, and stimulate a culture of innovation. The impact of an effective keynote address can resonate long after the event, influencing corporate strategies and individual initiatives alike.

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2016

He said they learned over time about how to purposefully manage creative diversity most effectively. Over time, however, they discovered that while they wanted participants with creative diversity, it was important to include individuals from groups that would actually return to the business and work together to solve problems.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 20, 2024

One only needs to understand the etymology of his last name to get a sense of where this man is coming from. Vadeboncoeur" is a French word that translates as "go with a good heart."

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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. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

We’re developing a workshop on creative thinking techniques for a B2B salesforce in a few weeks. I guess I think of them as what people say about creative thinking when they don’t have anything more substantial to say. They are creative thinking aspirations seemingly devoid of ideas for making them happen.

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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 they proceed an in-person strategy planning meeting, but not always. There really are all kinds of possibilities.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It can also help them reflect on issues like innovation, strategy, vision, etc. Icebreakers can also be used throughout the retreat to facilitate different groupings with creative thinking and problem solving purposes. We have facilitated over 100 onsite and virtual leadership retreat style events and workshops.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 28, 2023

All of these resource us to be adaptive, to transform the power of our hearts and minds to be creative, accomplish, learn, grow, and innovate through disruption. Because if you’re not deliberate about it you will probably freak out.

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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

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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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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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

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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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2017

It’s all about getting kids outside to experience nature, interact, and learn. Next month, Emma Alvarez Gibson and I will be delivering a couple of workshops for the Friends of Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites. That took me to the idea of abundance thinking, one of the fundamental strategies of idea magnets.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 6, 2016

All the while, demand for Brainzooming workshops on innovation, strategic thinking, and content marketing increased. Unfortunately, the sacrifices involve important personal priorities for me – prayer and spiritual time, being with family, fitness, and time to explore new creative ideas. – Mike Brown.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 26, 2022

We try to listen empathically to our customers, understand the range of partners and other stakeholders who may have influence within the system, and begin to develop strategies that account for diverse actors and perspectives that may continue to unfold. Integrating Agile Approaches into Waterfall Cultures.

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