Idea Champions

JANUARY 23, 2024

Stevie Ray McHugh, Co-Founder of Idea Champions , is a seasoned expert in strategic planning, balanced scorecards, team building, lean manufacturing, and innovation.

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Idea Champions

JULY 8, 2023

Creativity, Innovation, Team Building, Leadership, Brainstorming, Idea Champions

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the daily operations, you and your leadership team can focus on long-term goals, team building, and innovative thinking. These gatherings are critical for aligning leadership on company vision, strengthening interpersonal relationships, and making decisions that will steer the company’s future.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Benefits of Facilitating Strategic Planning Offsites Facilitating strategic planning offsites offers a multitude of benefits, from enhancing team cohesion to driving organizational alignment. Improved Focus : With day-to-day distractions left behind, your team can concentrate fully on strategic issues and high-level thinking.

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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. By removing distractions and dedicating time solely to strategic thinking, you create an atmosphere where creativity and big-picture thinking can thrive.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Enhanced Creativity : Employees feel safe to express innovative ideas when they are part of a positive and accepting work culture. By fostering clear communication, encouraging collaboration, and providing support and recognition, you lay the groundwork for a thriving and high-performing team.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Behavior Impact on Employees Constant Oversight Decreased Autonomy Detail Fixation Reduced Creativity Frequent Check-ins Increased Stress To move away from micromanagement, leaders should focus on empowering employees, setting clear expectations, and providing the necessary support to achieve goals.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Consequence Impact on Individual Impact on Organization Stress Increased health issues Higher healthcare costs Burnout Reduced productivity Loss of talent Dissatisfaction Lower job satisfaction Negative employer brand Employee engagement plummets, and with it, innovation and creativity. Explore further on building a positive work culture.

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CMOE

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Leadership Biz Cafe. The Accidental Creative. Women’s Leadership Success. Leadership and Loyalty. Dose of Leadership. The John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. Let’s Talk Teams by Uptick. Leadership Biz Cafe. The Host: Tanveer Naseer, speaker and leadership expert. HBR IdeaCast.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 30, 2019

The following tips should be part of your hackathon innovation strategy: Get executive buy-in because, without the active support of organizational leadership, even great ideas have little chance of being pursued. Assemble teams that encourage mixing and working with new people.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Collaboration to solve problems is all about culture, incentives, team building, leadership, and more. Design of the session should include introvert-friendly tools (see #9). There is a great deal to say about the 10 Commandments listed above. I could write a book on problem framing, #2, alone.

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Cris Beswick

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

What is Psychological Safety and How Does It Affect Team Performance Psychological safety is the belief that team members will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes. By recognising and addressing these misconceptions, organisations can create an atmosphere of trust and openness.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

For more on how keynote speakers can enhance team collaboration, explore our detailed guide on the best team collaboration keynote presentations. Impact of Keynote Speeches on Team Building and Innovation The impact of a well-delivered keynote speech can extend far beyond the confines of a single event.

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CMOE

JULY 14, 2020

Helping leadership teams recover after the global pandemic will be no small task. In this blog, we will share the story of one leader who is using his experience with CMOE’s Team Alignment process to bring his team back from the brink. Case Study: Shawn. Shawn is considered by many to be a good leader. Results Forum.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 12, 2021

A Fractional CINO addresses these missing skill sets: The MisFortune 10,000 Tend to Lack These Innovation Skills: Process and Innovation Project Management Skills — including: team building, culture leadership, innovation project roadmapping, and more.

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CMOE

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

For each skill, we’ve listed some helpful interview questions for this leadership position. Team Building. What was the outcome of your leadership? What are your tactics for winning the respect of new team members? How would you motivate a team that feels overworked? Interview Questions. Communication.

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CMOE

APRIL 20, 2021

Great managers can give us vital outside leadership and perspective that we can’t get anywhere else. Try these methods to support a culture of innovation at work: Make innovation a habit: Let team members schedule a percentage of their time each week to be used for experimentation (or even daydreaming). Develop Your Strengths.

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Values Centered Innovation

MAY 7, 2020

He wanted his executive team to experience what it means to “manage” the risks it took to maintain industry leadership. So he had them join in a set of team building exercises – one of which involved climbing a 30’ pole with a safety harness on, and then standing on a 12” disk at the very top (with nothing to hold on to!).

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Teams and work groups don’t know how to be collaborative. Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. Yes, you can train people in creative thinking, Front-End-of-Innovation (FEI) frameworks, problem solving, and meeting facilitation.

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Tullio Siragusa

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Recognize and reward collaboration: Reward team members who work well with others and recognize the importance of collaboration in achieving project goals. Encourage team building activities: Encourage team building activities like workshops, retreats, and other bonding activities to help team members work more effectively together.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

For guidance on developing strategic thinking within your leadership team, you may find value in 10 ways to get your leadership team thinking strategically and building the best business strategies. Establish ‘innovation labs’ or ‘hackathons’ to tackle challenges creatively.

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CorporateIntel

APRIL 26, 2021

You can live a relatively long time with just Air and Water, so you get to decide what constitutes Food and how to procure it creatively. Agreed priorities are empowering, When you achieve consensus around Air, Water, and Food, you are making critical progress in your team building and goal setting.

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CMOE

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Training in creative fields like graphic design is perfect for these types of employees. CMOE guest authors are carefully selected industry experts, researchers, writers, and editors with extensive experience and a deep passion for leadership development, human capital performance, and other specialty areas.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 5, 2016

Shown below are a list of the factors I feel can be major contributors (far from exhaustive), firstly into the soft side of our balance sheet that is made up of culture, climate and environment as our creative and engagement capacity. It needs to address the creative, engagement and relationship part that innovation always needs.

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CMOE

MARCH 10, 2021

Virtual retreats can have cost benefits over in-person retreats but usually require logistical coordination similar to an in-person retreat because you have to get more creative about how to accomplish objectives and use technology to build a highly engaging experience. Use a virtual team-building activity or simulation.

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 15, 2019

Improv schools like Second City and IO Theater in Chicago lead executive or team workshops, and their focus is on team building. Surprising the mind with stimulating, imaginative, and fun games can, and does, provide shifts in thinking that are elusive and time consuming otherwise.

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CMOE

APRIL 27, 2021

Why Is Decisiveness Found in High-Performing Teams? When a team makes effective decisions quickly, members can spend more time taking action on those decisions and exercising their creativity and expertise. A decisive team understands how to: Make quick and effective decisions. What Does Decisiveness Look Like?

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CMOE

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Delegation of Tasks : As teams get acquainted with the abilities of each member, team leaders will learn how to best split tasks between them. Brainstorming : Teach teams to allow members to state all their ideas—no matter how far-fetched they might seem—in an atmosphere of respect.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JANUARY 16, 2018

We try and create the right environment, help build the right practices, employ the right frameworks, bring in external experts to help our teams. We send our teams to conferences, to workshops and creative retreats, all in the hope that they learn something and can come up with interesting breakthroughs.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 7, 2017

A well-crafted conference design that ensures maximum engagement, teamwork, creativity, networking, commitment, fun, and follow-up. On site, the Idea Champions team will do everything possible to ensure that participant engagement is at an all-time high. storytelling, and creative thinking. The missing piece? Guess what?

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Rmukesh Gupta

JANUARY 4, 2018

And how can you help your teams build this ability? These questions enable us to use our imagination to come up with situations and get curious and creative at the same time. What this means is that in order to come up with creative output, we need creative input. There are two questions here: 1.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. They can be too passive, boring, yield few ideas (and even fewer creative innovations), last too long, and result in too much discussion and too little action. How will you hold your team accountable after the meeting is complete?

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

We have collaborated with over 100 organizations for a variety of in-person and virtual innovation, design thinking, and leadership workshops and events. We recently led a 4-hour long design thinking leadership workshop at an organizational culture conference held in Madison, Wisconsin. What stood out to me is that it’s a “muscle”.

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InnovationManagement

AUGUST 19, 2019

Before being acquired by Facebook for US$1 billion, Instagram was just another photo-sharing app operating with insignificant infrastructure and a dozen employees. With the ever-increasing potential of modern technology, the next billion-dollar business could start from the comfort of someone’s home. and that’s our topic today.

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CMOE

MARCH 31, 2023

Better problem solving: Empirical research illustrates that teams perform better than a group of individuals working alone. Experts attribute this to the group’s ability to more effectively correct issues, think creatively, process information, and solve problems. Consider initiating various team-building activities.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Psychology means decision makers do not like innovative ideas: Unfortunately, decades of research into psychology show us just how biased our brains are against creative & innovative ideas, and how they prefer safer ideas. I hardly ever see projects either deliver below their original budget, or voluntarily give up their budget.

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 21, 2016

At the International Conference on Knowledge, Innovation & Enterprise , researchers presented a paper on “LEGO Serious Play applications to enhance creativity in participatory design.” The conclusions were that LSP excelled at tasks such as: awakening latent creative energies to spur innovative thinking.

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