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. Agenda Design Creating a well-thought-out agenda is essential for your offsite.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 21, 2023

AI can revolutionize the educational landscape by tailoring learning experiences, automating administrative tasks, and providing insights into student performance. These digital coaches can offer personalized guidance and training on a range of topics, from communication skills and empathy to strategic thinking and goal-setting.

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Exercises Leadership Training Tools 118

BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

Download: FREE Innovation Strategic Thinking Fake Book. This new ebook features sixteen strategic thinking exercises to help you ideate, prioritize, and develop your best innovative growth ideas. Learn and rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2018

Seeing the question about how to boost an audience’s energy level ahead of time (and knowing they’ll want specifics), prompted this list of thirty things I’ve done during my career of designing and delivering interactive presentations and workshops. Move to the Shrimp creative thinking exercise.

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Exercises Creative Thinking Creativity Groups 81

BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

We’d do these sessions as part of strategic planning. Since we were learning as we went, some sessions worked better than others. In May 2006, Dave Kramer, a Senior Sales and Marketing VP at one of our transportation subsidiaries asked us to help one of their company president’s come up with a strategic plan – quickly.

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Exercises Strategic Thinking Strategy Strategy 67

BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2018

We have designed several branding strategy scopes of work recently where the available time between developing strategy and implementation is tight. Create expanded roles to ensure partners can contribute their expertise and strategic thinking early. 5 Ways to Open Branding Strategy to Multiple Marketing Agencies.

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Strategy Strategy Marketing Strategic Thinking 95

BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

.” That question relates to something we do all the time: walk into a new client in an unfamiliar industry to design and facilitate a strategic planning process. In that type of situation, we recommend using strong strategic thinking questions and frameworks to quickly understand the situation, the players, and the opportunities.

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Resources Strategic Thinking Comparison Strategy 86

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

I’m a strategic planning guy, and even I don’t enjoy strategic planning the way it is typically handled for groups. Part of making strategic planning fun involves fun exercises , which we continue to create and share here. 11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun*.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

While it was primarily enforced via the honor system (and an email/text area had been designated in one of the buildings), most attendees successfully disconnected. Even cynical types were openly surprised at the insights and learnings. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media.

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Conference Strategic Thinking Creativity Resources 74

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Yet, a client approached us to design and conduct a cross-operation innovation strategy engagement focused solely on identifying problems. We coupled this with multiple in-person workshop exercises to identify and prioritize more than one hundred pain points. Each group performed the same prioritization exercise.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

On Wednesday, I delivered the closing keynote at the Real Time Marketing Lab with a mini-workshop on using strategic thinking super models to help C-suite executives understand social networking and content marketing strategy. That is why weeks such as the last one are so rewarding and filled with learning.

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IdeaSpies

JULY 12, 2018

Students learnt branding and advertising 101, analysed what Australia has to offer as a nation and critiqued other successful global nation brand campaigns Dan Aldridge said, “The brief most certainly peaked my interest and my hunger to be part of an ambitious and exciting branding exercise.

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Entrepreneurship Creativity Course Collaboration 57

BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

Remember that although these creative thinking skills are presented sequentially, they may be used in any order. There may also be equally important creative thinking skills not included on the list. This is simply a stab at dissecting how these types of exercises have developed in a variety of situations. – Mike Brown.

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Creative Thinking Creativity Strategy Strategy 40

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 19, 2015

The certain way, however, was a way completely of their own design. Other than having pride of design, there was nobody else with any expectation of the certain way the project had to be. Email us at info@brainzooming.com or call us at 816-509-5320 to learn how we can deliver these benefits for you. What are my pizza meetings?

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Creative Thinking Meeting Creativity Strategic Thinking 40

BrainZooming

MARCH 17, 2017

This transition forces me to formally communicate aspects of the Brainzooming brand, including strategic assumptions and brand personality, vocabulary, design standards, and other elements that have only been in my head until now. It also reinforces something I’ve known for a long time: I’m both a great client and a horrible client.

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Creativity Creative Thinking Exercises eBook 83

BrainZooming

AUGUST 1, 2016

We design collaborative strategy planning for each client with a clear understanding of the overall goal. While the individual steps may seem to go in varied and unexpected directions, they’re all pointing toward the end result of a highly-actionable strategic plan. While that input is vital, it isn’t the final say.

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 10, 2020

For instance, an engineer who can develop brilliant new product designs but who can’t effectively communicate the value of those designs to others (or collaborate with design teams to bring those ideas to life) is doing himself and his organization a major disservice. Break out of your shell once in a while.

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Underperforming Technical Team Study Leadership Policies 52

Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 10, 2020

For instance, an engineer who can develop brilliant new product designs but who can’t effectively communicate the value of those designs to others (or collaborate with design teams to bring those ideas to life) is doing himself and his organization a major disservice. Break out of your shell once in a while.

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Underperforming Technical Team Study Leadership Policies 52

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

When discussing a strategic planning or innovation strategy engagement with a client, we use the graphic below to design our recommended approach. They provided input on the biggest impact ideas and how to enrich other strategies through additional creative thinking exercises.

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Collaboration Creative Thinking Exercises Groups 40

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 8, 2015

What can other regulated businesses learn from the JetBlue example that they can adapt? ” While the JetBlue example is an actual case study in the making, don’t limit your organization in thinking that’s the only strategy for innovating around regulations. Via Armada Corporate Intelligence.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 10, 2020

Companies need to have a ‘dual-path’ for their strategic thinking and efforts that include both. In these strategic efforts, it is critical to focus on the day-to-day, week-to-week, and month-to-month for near-term survival with a Today-for-Today strategy. Create multiple strategic options based on plausible futures.

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Tips Strategy Strategy Tools 52

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

It was only after pulling into the parking lot at Kris and Kate’s Ice Cream Treats on the return trip that something even more incredible than the building’s design jumped out: the best brand promise ever. “If you can think it, we can make it.” It gets pretty dizzying in a hurry! FREE Download: “Results!!!

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

The objective of developing the capacity to create new perspectives, unburdened by a company’s legacy, is not to throw out the BD, present-forward perspective, but to augment it with an AD, future-back perspective that can expand the possible business design envelope of the company and free it to consider alternatives it would not have otherwise.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 27, 2016

Stefan Mumaw, Director of Creative Strategy at Hint , shared a creative thinking exercise in a morning break segment. He gave us three minutes to imagine what might be part of a Swiss Army knife designed especially for a pirate. Stefan defined an absurd idea as something that would definitely not fit in a Swiss Army Knife.

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Creative Thinking Creativity Exercises Strategic Thinking 63