BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We have released a host of eBooks on strategic planning exercises and ideas to increase collaboration, creative thinking, alignment, and successful implementation. This is our biggest collection ever of strategic thinking questions to move strategy planning ahead in finding the best strategic direction.

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Leapfrogging

MAY 8, 2024

Incorporating XQ into leadership development programs can catalyze the growth of high-potential individuals by equipping them with the tools to analyze their experiences, adapt to change, and exercise sound judgment in high-stakes scenarios. This data can also inform the ongoing refinement of your leadership programs.

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Idea Drop

JULY 20, 2017

For most businesses, every day is an exercise in problem-solving. There are two distinct (though complementary) ways to work through a problem and develop a solution: we might label them ‘creative thinking’ and ‘strategic thinking’. The post Creative vs. Strategic Thinking: What’s The Difference?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 1, 2018

Sometimes, we get to design a creative thinking exercise that seems like so much fun during its development that it causes me to continually smile and giggle. This design came about specifically for this client. We have a new one of those that we debuted yesterday. In its new form, it’s called Surf-to-Turf.

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Leapfrogging

MAY 8, 2024

Designing Experiential Learning Activities When you integrate experiential learning activities into your training programs, you provide leaders with the opportunity to engage directly with complex, real-life scenarios. The key is to design exercises that simulate actual challenges leaders may face in their roles.

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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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BrainZooming

JANUARY 13, 2016

Louis arch, however, it suggests multiple strategic thinking questions you can ask for your brand’s success. 7 Strategic Thinking Questions on the Way to Your Brand? These seven strategic thinking questions focus on what happens to your customers on the way to your brand. Using the St.

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BrainZooming

JULY 26, 2021

What options are there when assembling a leadership team or board of directors who want to do blue sky thinking for big ideas? Seems simple, although delivering on this objective requires deft design to enable a collaboration with a chance of producing big thinking. Framing the Thinking Perspectives.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 21, 2023

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. These strategies may include mindfulness exercises, time management techniques, or relaxation methods.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

For insights into designing impactful leadership retreats, explore our guide on designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning. This phase lays the groundwork for a successful meeting where strategic goals can be effectively developed and refined.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The table below outlines several competencies that can be adapted to include an innovation focus: Competency Description Innovative Aspect Strategic Thinking The ability to analyze and conceptualize long-term business strategies. Encourages leaders to seek out emerging trends and technologies that could influence future markets.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2017

Is there such a thing as a quick check to determine whether a strategic plan is on the right track or not ? While reviewing mini-strategic plans attendees developed at a recent logistics company customer event we facilitated, I relied on one that works well. 11 Ideas to Make a Strategic Planning Process More Fun!

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Is your strategy team tired of the same old strategic thinking exercises ? It offers fresh ideas for using one of the most common strategic thinking exercises. Challenge your thinking about what parts of your strategy are obsolete, opinion-based, and open to serious objections. and it’s FREE!

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BrainZooming

MARCH 2, 2017

What types of strategic planning activities are in a strategic thinking workshop ? As we collaborate with a client to design strategic planning activities for a strategic thinking workshop , we explore various possibilities. 6 Potential Strategic Planning Activities for a Workshop.

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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. To facilitate you going deeper into thinking about how these activities function within a strategic planning process workshop, here are articles in each of the six areas.

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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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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

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. We had the processes and exercises needed already developed buy had never put them all together to move from ideas to plans within a day or two.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Here are eleven things we do differently to speed up developing strategy: We design the strategic planning process to fit your organization and team – not the other way around. We’ll use highly productive strategic and creative thinking exercises.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

This initial visioning exercise was hugely successful and fun. And fun was an important expectation since they found us by Googling “strategic planning fun” and downloading our eBook on the topic of fun strategic planning. Actively take part in identifying who to involve in the strategic planning process.

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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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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We provided strategic thinking questions of their own to use, including: “That’s great and how can we do that _?” That role went to the group’s senior executive to focus us on transformative ideas during a strategic thinking exercise involving imagining Chick-fil-A designing their customer experience strategy.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 5, 2018

An efficient AND effective innovation strategy adapts to a company’s business objectives, strategic priorities, and team. It doesn’t start with getting everyone together in a room for a creative thinking workshop and expecting innovative ideas to happen spontaneously. Workshop design capitalizes on findings.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Poor visibility into customer interactions or faulty customer experience strategy design could both be issues. The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. That was the case in the grocery store.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2018

I explained to them that no matter who we bring into an in-person Brainzooming workshop, we design the questions and exercises so that EVERYONE will be successful participating. Creative Thinking – 7 Keys to How “Idea Magnets” Boost Creativity. Extreme Creativity. Successful Implementation.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

Someone downloaded a free Brainzooming strategy eBook, noting his biggest strategy challenge is “how to do a strategic planning process when you are new.” ” 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.

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Check out these quotes about Reid’s sources for innovative ideas: “He set up an R&D unit for offensive football, scouring film and tinkering with new play designs. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media. Where does Andy Reid find innovative ideas?

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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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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 27, 2017

These types of scenarios set the stage for dramatically different strategic thinking and innovative possibilities. These 11 not stuffy for work techniques will spice up strategic planning with new thinking on: How to move out of long-established comfort zones that limit strategic thinking.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

They are taking time to design something they will likely never implement. The real market research design will only take shape after the client selects a vendor and meaningful exploration takes place. In less specific situations, a request for proposal is a waste of time for potential vendors. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

These 11 not stuffy for work techniques will spice up boring strategy meetings with new thinking on: How to move out of long-established comfort zones that limit strategic thinking. Livening up strategic discussions with exercises designed to generate disruptive ideas.

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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. You can employ the strategic thinking exercises in Accelerate to : Facilitate a collaborative approach to identifying innovation resources.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 26, 2016

Shifting the focus to ongoing customer engagement, however, necessitated a different look than the one we’ve used for years in designing events. The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

We can design and implement an overall and initiative-specific process to foster and cultivate innovation across your organization. Strategic Thinking Exercises: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis” features eleven ideas for adapting, stretching, and reinvigorating how you see your brand’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

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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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