Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Setting the Stage for Success In the ever-evolving business landscape, executive team offsites have become a cornerstone for strategic planning and decision-making. By stepping away from the daily operations, you and your leadership team can focus on long-term goals, team building, and innovative thinking.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

I was the “interviewee” for an “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence about how to plan team building exercises that create impact for work teams. As described in the article, I’ve been on the good and bad side of various team building exercises during my career.

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CMOE

AUGUST 6, 2021

Low-functioning teams, on the other hand, are unstable, disorganized, and do the bare minimum. These teams are often managed by leaders who fail to inspire their employees to devote more of themselves to the team. Building high-functioning teams takes time and requires the right leadership skills and strategies.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Depending on budget, your organization may take a trip over a few days or host a one-day event locally or virtually. This time can be spent training the leadership team’s natural abilities to support the organization and its goals. A second great reason to consider holding a retreat is to improve team building and bonding.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 12, 2024

Team building: Fostering a collaborative environment to preempt potential conflicts. Workshops, seminars, and coaching programs are designed to offer professionals the tools and insights needed to excel in leadership roles. Negotiation: Arriving at a compromise by understanding each party’s needs and concerns.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

This can be done through regular team-building exercises or open forums. Facilitate Team Interactions: Design workspaces and schedules that allow for spontaneous interactions and collaborative work. Check out our resources on improving workplace morale and building a positive work culture for more insights.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Design of the session should include introvert-friendly tools (see #9). Collaboration to solve problems is all about culture, incentives, team building, leadership, and more. The session should include a variety of brainstorming tools (see #8). There is a great deal to say about the 10 Commandments listed above.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 20, 2020

At the same time, in order for a team to be the best in class, each member needs to grow. So, self-development fosters team success. Are team-building rituals conducive of self-growth? Opinions about team-building fluctuate a lot. Building A Team Goes Viral. But is the contrary also true?

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CREATORS

APRIL 11, 2019

Last week we were extremely excited to have our final event of JoyMakers program. We mentioned the JoyMakers program several times, and now, after the final event, it’s time to share the process and what we’ve achieved. our teams developed a prototype so they could test their assumptions and prove it! Final event?—?prizes

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 17, 2018

We have a short video that summarizes most of our take-aways: [link] 4 key factors of a successful Hackathon event A good topic that is motivating with clear expectations and judging criteria The Aegon Hackathon ’s innovation challenge: ‘What is your disruptive idea that supports wealth + health?’ Design Thinking sessions?—?facilitated

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. 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. Implementation: 6 Questions to Help You Design Innovative Meetings.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

E.g. a wall decorated by employees, interactive lunches or team building events, flexible project teams. Organize workshops introducing lean, agile, design thinking, kanban, gamification, 6Sigma, 6Thinking Hats, random words and other creativity-enhancing methods or tools that people can build into their own processes.

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The Human Factor

MARCH 2, 2020

You could even organize green events such as garden projects and get them making their own compost from organic waste. There are many different, great eco-friendly team-building activities you can try. You can find a full range of fantastic designs at earthfriendlypromos.com.au.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 7, 2017

We design and facilitate conferences that make a big difference -- memorable events that are totally engaging, enjoyable, and radically increase the odds of your conference outcomes sustaining over time. AGENDA DESIGN: Most corporate conferences are like American cities. Here's how we do it: 1. Yes, there will be.

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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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BrainZooming

MARCH 3, 2017

Yesterday, we identified the six types of strategic planning process activities we use to design a client’s strategic thinking workshop. Interacting (Networking, meeting, team building). 3 Keys to Team Building Exercises that Create Impact. Anticipating Black Swan Events in Your Plan.

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Leanstack

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

There were two members in the class, Adi S (a mechanical engineer) and Adi F (an electronics engineer), who volunteered to help create and fund the building of a 2.0 In the best case, they’d have an improved design. This is also when Fabi ran into Sebastian (software engineer), who would make the 4th member of the core team.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 24, 2020

Think of it this way: instead of going to an office every day to work from a designated desk, remote employees can execute their projects and exceed their goals wherever they are. You can do this by merging individual and collective goals, which will help team building and encourage professionals to keep in touch.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 18, 2012

Podcast Summary Today on Boxes and Arrows, Chris Baum talks with Patrick Quattlebaum, Design Director at Adaptive Path. Patrick has some interesting insights and tools that designers can use to develop experiences across channels.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Given the many hurdles small businesses face, designing tools and services to help them succeed has been an immensely rewarding experience. When conducting research with consumers, we always recruit one extra participant in the event there is a no-show. Art / design (e.g., Recruiting tip #5: Recruit extra participants.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 26, 2012

Design patterns are generally considered a good thing, but do they actually help run a user experience group? As a user experience group manager and an observer (and sponsor) of design pattern exercises, I’ve come to have serious questions about their actual utility. ” Completeness and learn-ability are in conflict.

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CMOE

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Many organizations use cross-functional teams to get input about feasibility and marketability from several departments when designing new product lines. You may have been on good cross-functional teams yourself. Team members need time to get to know each other and build trust. But what makes them work?

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Boxes and Arrows

JUNE 29, 2009

Introduction The role of the interaction designer is to specify the interface’s behaviors and elements, so that engineers know what to build and how the product should operate. However, designers should be aware of a wiki’s benefits and drawbacks for documentation, since UI specs uniquely reflect a project and its context.

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