Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Creativity special: Ten top tips Tom Ward senior research fellow in the Center for Creative Media at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and editor of the Journal of Creative Behavior “Merge two previously separate concepts that are in conflict with one another. When you become an expert, move on.

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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

JANUARY 3, 2019

When it comes to focus and preparation exercises, it’s a numbers game. How about Creative Thinking Questions? To prepare for the in-person planning, Tara forwarded creative thinking questions that looked out from today to more than a decade into the future. 8 Creative Thinking Questions to Focus Your Year.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

The right speaker can also enhance the prestige of your event, attracting a wider audience and generating buzz within your industry. These speakers cover a range of topics, from the innovation process to the creation of a culture that nurtures creativity and collaboration.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Working together means more creativity. Teaching people to think creatively may feel like a freeform exercise, and it can be. Here’s how to ensure any innovation workshop is both creative and productive. or “What if one of our biggest competitors suddenly exits the industry?”

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Frustrations with boring strategy sessions are probably why so many people visit our website looking for creative ideas on fun strategic planning exercises. We’ve previously published some fun strategic planning exercises. Strategic Planning Exercises Can Be Fun. Rearrange working groups. Plan If You Can.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Stronger creative leadership to identify productive tactics, make better (and faster) decisions, and successfully implement with a major impact. The Answer to Boosting Creative Leadership within Your Team! This Brainzooming book demonstrates the value of stronger creativity.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 22, 2017

Short story: If you want big ideas, ask the big questions, which is what extreme creativity is all about ! Keeping with the eight theme, here are eight new questions from the Brainzooming R&D Lab to boost your creative thinking skills. What are the stupid unwritten rules in our industry we must upend right away? Aspirations.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 29, 2023

Example ChatGPT Workshop Workshop Title: “Innovating with ChatGPT: A Virtual Workshop on Creative AI” Workshop Description: In this workshop, you will learn how to use ChatGPT, an advanced AI language model, to generate creative ideas and solve problems in your innovation projects.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 6, 2022

“Unlock Your Creative Potential: Transform Your Ideas into Innovations!” Write 30 ideas for names for a new program on design and creativity. Creative Design Academy 2. Creative Design Institute 7. Creative Design Training 8. Creative Design Course 10. Design and Creative Thinking 11.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 7, 2023

Unconventional Strategies: Embracing Decisiveness One creative approach to instilling urgency is to challenge team members to embrace decisiveness in their personal lives. Bridging the Gap between Thought and Action: This exercise pushes team members out of their comfort zones, forcing them to act rather than overthink.

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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. Pushing Back on a Strategic Thinking Exercise. Adapting this strategic thinking exercise for a client , however, we experienced MAJOR push back.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

As an executive leader, I’m often tasked with driving innovation within my team to ensure our company remains at the forefront of our industry. As business leaders, it’s essential to understand and integrate this component to drive change and encourage a thriving environment of creativity and risk-taking.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for an industrial company. From a facilitation standpoint, it was the most arduous couple of days of going through strategic thinking exercises I recall. The company wants to make significant changes to a major production process. 11 Things Running through a Facilitator’s Head.

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BrainZooming

MAY 27, 2016

I suspect many, if not most industries, know there’s an elusive brand promise customers have been requesting for a long time that no competitor has figured out yet. The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Through a blend of strategic planning sessions, team-building activities, and reflective exercises, a well-designed offsite can unlock new perspectives, ignite creativity, and lay the groundwork for transformative growth. Preparing for Success The foundation of a productive executive team offsite lies in meticulous preparation.

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Your Ideas are Terrible

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The Creativity Myth. Creative leadership isn’t about leaders simply becoming more creative. It’s about individuals leading for creativity. That means you, as a leader, must unlock the creative potential of your organization, no matter the industry. Everyone is capable of being creative. Ask questions.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 8, 2016

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. While we did that, an early exercise during the strategic thinking workshop shaped the rest of the day. Benefit 3 – Ways to Generate Creative Ideas.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Encouraging Innovation : They can encourage teams to innovate by collaborating on creative solutions to complex challenges. Innovation Encouraging creative thinking and problem-solving as a group. Factors such as the industry, job roles, seniority levels, and what they hope to gain from the session should influence the decision.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 9, 2021

NASA is well-known for creativity and innovation, and part of that is NASA@Work, their internal crowdsourcing platform where anyone with NASA credentials can share challenges, ideas, and solutions. The team won $20,000 to refine the design and ship it to an overjoyed Sirvan, with the rest going to cerebral palsy research. The Bucket Mister.

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Phil McKinney

MAY 24, 2023

Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist, and professor at the Wharton School of Business, has found that our reliance on defaults can have a profound impact on our creativity. This lack of exploration prevents us from finding solutions outside of what is already known or accepted—and consequently limits our ability to be creative.

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Leapfrogging

MAY 8, 2024

The key is to design exercises that simulate actual challenges leaders may face in their roles. Consult with training facilitators and subject-matter experts to gather insights on the effectiveness of experiential learning exercises.

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Michael Michalko

DECEMBER 10, 2021

His international team applied those methods to various NATO military, political, and social problems and in doing so it produced a variety of breakthrough ideas and creative solutions to new and old problems. After leaving the military, Michael facilitated CIA think tanks using his creative thinking techniques. Chuck Frey.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

The Evolution of Design Thinking in Business Design thinking has evolved from being a creative process into a robust strategic tool. The Role of AI in Design Thinking Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing various facets of business operations, including the creative and iterative processes within design thinking.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

She asked about a question or exercise “that has worked well to get people thinking about that type of content and how to present it.”. This exercise involves thinking about all the steps customers take in arriving at your brand. What Needs to Go into a Creative Brief? This one is about strategic creative briefs.

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Leapfrogging

MAY 2, 2024

They bring a creative edge to fostering team unity, combining traditional methods with cutting-edge techniques. To explore further experts in this field, consider reading about team-building experts for corporate events.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 18, 2019

I recently ran a workshop for a group of CEOs of small companies from different sectors and industries. We ran the following exercise. Each person started with a blank sheet of paper on which they answered the following questions about their organization. What are your main products or services? List three or four. What are.

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Daniel Burrus

JUNE 2, 2021

While you exercise, they handle the math and science of these interactive workouts. Without them, you would be counting how many reps you do yourself, having to potentially write them down in longhand, or remember them while you move on to other exercises. and others were viewed before they upended whole industries.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

I attended a very special meeting of minds in a remote part of Yorkshire, England at The Centre of Management Creativity , hosted by John Varney, a great mentor who was instrumental in my decision to start my business some 25 years ago. This allowed me some quiet space for reflection and a good amount of exercise.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 24, 2020

Within this space, we also want to use the power of the crowd and discover creative ways you are implementing to adapt your home work environment. What is your favorite online exercise or entertainment resource right now? How might we best collaborate with our peers in the industry given the cancellation of conferences and workshops?

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Now apply that idea to the traditional industry knowledge – the conventional wisdom of your business. Conventional wisdom is especially prized by executives with tenure and experience in one industry, company, and/or discipline. One key to greater creativity and innovation is the ability to temporarily forget what you know.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 25, 2018

Digital transformation is a global phenomenon and a universal disruption, changing every industry and every sector. This article provides a great insight into how the advances in the IoT, Big Data, Cloud Computing, and AI can be linked to major innovative disruptions in our healthcare services, manufacturing, and oil and gas industries.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 14, 2017

My career began with a small company in the entertainment industry that developed the first large screen stadium video displays for U2 and other leading music acts. Strategos offers clients a robust and creative approach to strategy and innovation that appealed to me. Working on innovation in industry roles can be very demanding.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Today I am focusing on LinkedIn inspirations for creative clicks; I get inspiration there every day. As always with creative clicks, click on the headlines in these LinkedIn Inspirations to link to the original article. Being a HUGE egghead, it inspires me to get a dose of the science behind creative thinking exercises.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 1, 2021

While changes to your environment can help you focus, get more done, and think more creatively, all of these approaches have limits. It’s also part of the reason morning exercise is so effective at improving focus throughout the day. We’ll be working in more diverse spaces than ever, including our own homes.

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IdeaSpies

JULY 12, 2018

I was blown away by the creativity, and the expression and the imagination of these incredible young people in our country. Over 5 weeks, 61 students and budding entrepreneurs from over 40 nationalities workshopped ideas and creative concepts to rebrand Australia.

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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. FREE Download: 13 Exercises for Disruptive Innovation Strategy. Via Shutterstock.

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