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Creative Thinking Skills – 9 Fundamentals to Turn Talk into Strategy

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Listening to the discussion among the team leader and other members of the organization driving the event, I grabbed paper, a Sharpie, and started organizing their aspirational comments into a presentation for the next day’s meeting. The team leader asked, “How is it possible to listen to us talk and turn it into a strategy so quickly?”.

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15 Things to Look for in a Business Collaboration

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I mentioned upcoming business collaboration opportunities for Brainzooming yesterday , including co-presentations, creating content, and developing new workshop and training offerings. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. What to look for in a business collaboration?

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Answering Reader Questions on Strategy and Innovation Challenges

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Creative Thinking Skills – 5 People Vital to Critical Thinking, Literally. “Helping train my team to be strategic thinkers and not just executors” Creative Thinking Skills for Sales – A Workshop Approach. Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy.

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5 Employee Engagement Ideas When Turnover Is High

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I debuted a presentation on “Results – Creating Strategic Impact,” our mini-book on employee engagement ideas to boost an organization’s strategic thinking. The mini-book focuses on the tremendous value when an organization finds ways to strategically solicit employee insights and perspectives to shape its strategic thinking.

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11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun*

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Designing strategic thinking questions leading to engaging conversation among familiar and new participants. Not sharing all the upfront homework in long presentations (which are almost always NOT FUN), but instead designing the entire strategic planning workshop to reflect the homework’s findings.

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41 Surprising Things about Community Collaboration Done Well

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Exercises presented to gain focus on a certain area.”. Increase focus for your community with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage more individuals in strategy AND implementation success. “The use of table posters and post-its is a great idea and unique.”. The shorter time frame worked well.”.