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Crafting the Path to Success: Designing Leadership Team Offsites for Strategic Planning Triumph

Leapfrogging

Start with a clear opening session that sets expectations and objectives, followed by a mix of breakout groups, workshops, and plenary sessions. You may want to consult resources on how to design and run a strategic planning offsite to ensure you’re on the right track.

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The 10 Commandments of Effective Brainstorming

Gregg Fraley

The Sins That Ruin Idea Generation. ” Well, you bother because you need ideas. Remember, half of any group is likely to be somewhat introverted. Rarely does a casual brainstorm generate a breakthrough idea. Work as individuals first, AND, then work as a team. I can get you there, see below. .

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Improv for Business

Gregg Fraley

Most of the group were skeptical at the start. Classic Improv games are adaptable for visioning, exploration, problem framing, idea generation, solution development, and planning. The key benefit is simply getting to a breakthrough insight or idea much faster. Improv is a Swiss Army Knife for Problem Solving.

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Innovation Training Under Utilized

Gregg Fraley

When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. Specifically: No fluidity in free-associative divergent thinking necessary to innovate — people do not know how to think like innovators! Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation

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3 Innovation Specialists Busting the Myth About Brainstorming

Innovation in Practice

Once ideas have been generated, they are evaluated at a later stage, to see which are worth implementing.”. Even though brainstorming does have value, for the purpose of energizing, team building and alignment around a topic, there is o ne main drawback to the method: most results are of little practical value.