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

Leapfrogging

To assist you in crafting a focused agenda for your offsite, you might find valuable guidance in how to design and run a strategic planning offsite. Moreover, to understand the critical elements that contribute to the success of these events, take a look at success factors for executive team offsites.

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Can creativity training really improve your creativity?

Idea to Value

After all, we have previously seen that most corporate creativity training is not actually designed to deliver results. While this can be a fun way for fun team-building and teams to spend time together, it is less likely to result in longer-term improvement in their ability to solve problems or come up with creative solutions.

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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. The more diverse the team, in every sense of the word, the better . Stretch the idea generation work out over a week or more. Design of the session should include introvert-friendly tools (see #9).

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Thinkpak: More Than Just a Brainstorming Too

Phil McKinney

This ingenious tool supercharges your creative process and takes your idea generation to the next level. With 56 uniquely designed cards, each one packed with thought-provoking prompts and questions, Thinkpak is not just a card deck; it's a veritable treasure trove of inspiration. Enter Thinkpak: A Brainstorming Card Deck.

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Improv for Business

Gregg Fraley

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. ” What I mean is you could use Improv problem solving tools with Agile, Lean, Design Thinking, or CPS.

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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. Training the teams, having a skilled facilitator in-house, and frequent practice of divergent thinking are essential to effective idea generation sessions. Almost always.

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Fractional Chief Innovation Officer (CINO)

Gregg Fraley

A Fractional CINO addresses these missing skill sets: The MisFortune 10,000 Tend to Lack These Innovation Skills: Process and Innovation Project Management Skills — including: team building, culture leadership, innovation project roadmapping, and more.