InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A second great reason to consider holding a retreat is to improve team building and bonding. For organizations with multiple locations or fully remote or distributed teams, this retreat can be a crucial event to bring everyone together in the same place (in person or virtually). Focus on reflection.

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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. One of our favorite topic focus areas is helping people lead and facilitate design thinking for a culture (and mindset) of innovation. Design thinking in action.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

After numerous experiences (and by numerous we mean with over 70 organizations), we identified some common innovation barriers that most groups seem to face. E.g. a wall decorated by employees, interactive lunches or team building events, flexible project teams. Let’s go over one of them?—?it’s Induce collaboration.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Specifically: No fluidity in free-associative divergent thinking necessary to innovate — people do not know how to think like innovators! Teams and work groups don’t know how to be collaborative. The research that says brainstorming doesn’t work studied groups with no training and no facilitator.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Design Thinking sessions?—?facilitated facilitated personally Winners of the online challenge, the top 8–12 teams per continent, 240 people overall made it personally to the 3 Hackathon events : Budapest, Mumbai and Dallas. In Budapest, the teams went through several Design Thinking Sprints throughout the Hackathon day.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

If you’re interested in running more effective, innovative meetings with your team, you’ve come to the right place. In this post, we’ll share some tips and hints centered around innovation and design thinking frameworks to help you deliver an engaging and impactful experience. Team Building. Problem Solving.

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Innovation in Practice

JANUARY 12, 2018

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. The ‘criteria cued’ groups produce fewer ideas, but a larger number of high-quality ideas. Mark McGuinness ).

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KindlingApp

JUNE 1, 2015

I instantly knew that the book contained the foundation of the culture I would hope to build in MidAmerica—my only question was whether the MidAmerica team was ready for it. Prior to my arrival the team had gone through two years of coaching, training, and team building to establish a foundation of trust.

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etventure

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Explain how today’s unpredictable marketplace drives the need for a much more agile and entrepreneurial mindset – based on an openness towards technological change, the use of methodologies such as design thinking, scrum for agile project management, a willingness to take risks, and a change in the company structure to a network organization.

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