BrainZooming

MARCH 30, 2017

It employs technology, focused creative teams, new manufacturing processes, and communications to remove time and waste when creating post-sporting event apparel featuring the winners and exciting story lines. We thought the list was intriguing, so we secured the go ahead to share the strategic thinking questions with you here.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Looking for ways to spice up your organization’s strategic planning process before you lock into the same old strategy ideas shaped by your senior team’s conventional wisdom? Try asking surprising strategic planning questions to push your leadership team toward new thinking. Don’t settle for boring strategic planning.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

What strategic thinking skills are important in helping find agreement for action amid a big, unstructured conversation? 5 Strategic Thinking Skills to Lead Groups to Action. Here are five strategic thinking skills you can employ in comparable group situations: Listen for verbs. Verbs suggest action.

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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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BrainZooming

AUGUST 9, 2016

What are your expectations from a creative thinking workshop? That is the first question I ask the audience at a Brainzooming creative thinking workshop. 7 Expectations from Creative Thinking Workshop Training. 7 Expectations from Creative Thinking Workshop Training. Ideas are a numbers game.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

This week’s “Inside the Executive Suite” from the Armada Executive Intelligence Brief newsletter highlighted two Wall Street Journal articles examining leadership strategy in light of how involved a teacher or coach should be in the details of teaching and learning. . Encourage a unique, personal path.

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BrainZooming

JULY 18, 2018

Idea Magnets: 7 Strategies for Cultivating & Attracting Creative Business Leaders , my new Brainzooming book on daily innovation, is now available on Amazon.com. Using Idea Magnets strategies, you’ll be able to envision new creative paths that deliver powerful impact, attract new ideas and people, and strengthen your leadership.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Eight years ago today, I published an article about personal leadership, asking the question, “What would you do with an extra day?” That proved to be true; since that time, we have collaborated on two American Marketing Association national market research conferences several years ago and a creative workshop a few months ago.

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BrainZooming

MAY 29, 2020

I also created and delivered a 6-part webinar series addressing The New Important for businesses trying to innovate and restart during the pandemic; the webinar series involved a 2 ½ hour combination of existing and new frameworks plus creating six eBooks in five weeks. The possibilities include: Webinars for your audience members.

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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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BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2017

If you find your teams continually struggling to turn strategic plans into implementation success, the Brainzooming strategy eBook, 321 GO! In this new strategy eBook , we share common situations standing in the way of successfully implementing your most important strategies. Waiting for inspiration before launching.

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BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! , Take on leadership and responsibility for decisions. Creative Thinking: What Is the Right Size for a Brainstorming Group? we share common situations standing in the way of successfully implementing your most important strategies.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Yet, having worked with the individual closely in the previous year, I witnessed the most dramatic turnaround in personal leadership I had ever seen in a co-worker. A Personal Leadership Test. Based on the personal leadership turnaround, I made the case several times for a demotion and not a termination. – Mike Brown.

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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. Creative Thinking Skills – 5 People Vital to Critical Thinking, Literally. Strategic Planning Process. Innovation.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 15, 2017

With more time, we frequently develop a decision support tool for a client to use in prioritizing strategic opportunities. This involves working with the organization’s leadership team to identify important factors shaping strategic decisions. In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! ,

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Are you making sure women are in leadership positions where they can voice things that need to be said that male leaders are unwilling to say? We have free Brainzooming eBooks for you to help navigate barriers and boost innovation! And once they did, the men in the group jumped in to these powerful conversations. Scarce resources ?

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

A 13-Point Strategic Change Management Checklist. Strategic Thinking about What to Keep and What to Creatively Change. Why Change Is Hard – 3 Strategic Thinking Ideas for Making Change Easy. Creating Change with Less Leadership and Information than You’d Like. 9 Ways to Address Innovation Fears.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Anything about faith I try to link to strategy, creativity, and innovation, all pillar topics for our work and the blog. These connections aren’t difficult to make, having discovered over the past decade that my Catholic faith positively and meaningfully influences every aspect of how I think and what I do, even in business.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Your innovation expertise could also be in training, executing of innovation Strategy and Models, project management, and leadership. The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Marianne Carr.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 18, 2016

Programs where leadership is solidly on-board. The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Download this free, concise eBook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Slam dunks.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 12, 2017

Here is a recommendation to make it happen through taking on three different strategic roles. . Amid a recent major leadership transition, the incoming CEO drove a broad, collaborative, strategic input initiative. A large leadership group shaped a strategic plan with several strategies and accompanying tactics.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2017

Tomorrow, I’ll be closing the Nature Explore and The Outdoor Classroom Project Leadership Institute with a comparable message. One theme for the Leadership Institute presentation is finding the blue sky – the open opportunities – even amid what seems to be an onslaught of constraints and limitations. Creativity.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2016

It is a LEADERSHIP problem when purported employee engagement strategies are not working. It means leadership has not made a credible case for WHY employees will benefit from going beyond the bare minimum to justify going all in to make company initiatives successful. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 8, 2018

We’ve written about three important strategic perspectives (general management, functional expertise, and people with creative energy) and three types of voices (traditional, challenger, and emerging) to include in any type of strategy workshop. Who should you invite to participate in an innovation strategy workshop ?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 9, 2017

I dropped a variation of the question into an online collaboration workshop for a client’s strategic planning process. Based on the results, it has a new role as a strategic planning question. The organization is going through a major leadership transition. Extreme Creativity. Photo by Emily Morter on Unsplash.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The occasion was presenting our first strategic market plan at Yellow Transportation (whose name was Yellow but whose color was orange) to the senior leadership team. Googling “orange,” I discovered it is the color of creativity and innovation. Current Orange Socks. So, yes, I still wear orange socks daily.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help you generate extreme creativity and ideas! Leadership Skills – 8 Ways to Fake It Until You Make It Creative Ideas – 5 Authors’ Perspectives for Defeating “Enemies of Invention”.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! , Take on leadership and responsibility for decisions. we share common situations standing in the way of successfully implementing your most important strategies. You will learn effective, proven ways to move your implementation plan forward with greater speed and success.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

NASCAR teams are used to stretching one of their main resources (fuel) with creative, winning strategies. Project Management Tips – 8 Signs a Creative Project Is Done. While we often consider a project done when all the steps are completed or the deadline is reached, that’s not always the case with a creative project.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 19, 2017

I don’t think we even asked if anyone had participated in an escape room before and had lessons to share. Without a designed project leader , the person that just found a clue or more boldly advanced an idea assumed leadership. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 26, 2017

Last week’s “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence picked out highlights on leadership skills from Fast Company magazine. There are a number of team development and leadership skills mentioned that fit themes we talk about here. Leadership Practices. He will ask a candidate a question.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 10, 2016

I inherited leadership of our department about a week into the strike, and we pointed EVERYONE toward understanding current customer sentiment and developing the plan to incent them to use our brand again even though we had let them down. Download this free, concise eBook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile.

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