BrainZooming

APRIL 6, 2016

I am in New York today delivering a Brainzooming branding strategy workshop on Engaging Your Internal Brand Team. Our content addresses collaborative ways to strategically engage employees in creating and delivering the best brand experience. Branding Strategy – Engaging an Internal Brand Team. Mike Brown.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2017

A good strategy, well outlined should encourage innovation and gain engagement but it can equally determine how we break down our imposed boundaries by its strategic intent, to encourage exploring and extending on what we know into the what we need to know. Is this because innovation is not at the core of the business as it should be?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 10, 2018

Resources are a common barrier to innovation, download the Brainzooming innovation eBook, 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. Accelerate will help you think about potential resources in dramatically new ways. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 8 Ideas for Brand Innovation. Case Studies.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2017

I’m also enough of a realist and have been around the block enough times to not cling to those expectations about how a strategic planning process has to work. 7 Collaborative Strategic Planning Process Impacts (Even if the Plan Sits on the Shelf). This type of strategic planning process: Guides the organization to greater success.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

It’s because I can’t fathom trying to assign credit for this deal if it unfolded in a Fortune 500 company: The relationship started multiple years ago through a speaking engagement. The only client contact for nearly three years was the blog email and an eBook download. I led the call that moved us toward winning the business.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

If you are responsible for leading the strategic planning process at your organization, dive in and tweak your process to improve its efficiency and effectiveness. 113 Ideas for Strategic Planning Process Improvement. 12 Questions to Jump Start Your Strategic Planning Process. 5 Ideas for Simplified Strategic Planning.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 6, 2018

I responded to her question: “Our approach to fun strategic planning ISN’T tailored for every organization. We wanted to be highly-engaged with our outside strategy partners. For management teams that simply want an outside partner to go off and come up with all the ideas and pitch them, we aren’t a good fit.”

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BrainZooming

MARCH 8, 2016

When individuals download our free Results!!! Someone downloaded Results!!! and listed “unfreezing (a) team, moving forward, and preparing for growth” as the strategic task at hand. Creating Organizational Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options. Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

We routinely ask those of you downloading Brainzooming strategy and innovation eBooks to share – if you are willing – the opportunities and challenges you are facing at the time. “Buy in from staff on the new vision and the required change” 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

I’ll be honest: my expectations were high for this innovation-focused conference , and I was doing my best to manage them. NEW FREE Download: 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. Download your FREE copy of Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy today! On the one hand, it sounded amazing.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2017

From before the engagement’s launch until near the completion, we asked for strategy documents spelling out corporate priorities, objectives, and expectations. We wanted a strategic target to align IT strategy and innovation initiatives to support the organization in realizing its overall vision.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

There are a couple of different ways to apply structure to strategic planning exercises : You can enforce using templates and forms participants have to complete so their answers are uniformed and structured. After this strategic collaboration, a full-time strategic planner (i.e., FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

MARCH 28, 2017

In place of only recycling ideas, try these nine strategic thinking questions and creative thinking paths. The formula is to ask a specific question, LISTEN for responses from others, and follow a related creating thinking direction to generate ideas more quickly: Ask: What’s been tried before? Branding and Marketing.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

If so, this Brainzooming compilation on various ways to combat creative thinking challenges is for you. Organizational Creative Thinking Challenges. Creative Thinking Skills: 29 Phrases Blocking Innovative Ideas. Disruptive Innovation, Change Management & Taking the NO Out of InNOvation. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

The First Brainzooming Strategic Planning Workshop. Chuck facilitated multiple engaging, high-energy strategic innovation sessions for us at Yellow Corporation. We’d then turn to preparing a strategic plan. NEW FREE Download: 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 15, 2017

Prioritizing Strategic Opportunities. One frequent prioritization approach works well when we have tons of ideas in a strategy workshop and need to quickly (and spontaneously) narrow them to a manageable number. After every idea is placed, the group engages in a strategic conversation about each idea’s placement.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 21, 2017

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence offered an internal branding strategy take on the United Airlines woes, offering strategic thinking questions you can ask and answer to improve your brand’s resiliency and avoid brand crises. 10 Lessons to Engage Employees and Drive Improved Results.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2018

He was a client team member on a customer experience strategy engagement several years ago. As it seems everyone in your senior management team recognizes, your brand and messaging is tailored currently to a narrower audience. Download the Brainzooming eBook on social-first content strategy.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

How closely will management expect teams to follow the plan? These questions will help you evaluate the right types of strategic planning exercises. Let’s talk about how to streamline your strategic planning to maximize collaboration and strategic impact. Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 11, 2016

10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategic planning and then turn it into results. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JULY 19, 2016

That insight drives the smart change management steps needed to navigate each innovation challenge. Managing with an exclusively short-term focus. The first step in the brief strategic thinking exercise has individual leaders assess the presence of the organization’s roadblocks. Strategy Barriers.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 13, 2018

You might even engage a firm specializing in competitive intelligence to do this. Taking the Next and Ongoing Steps to Managing Customer Expectations. 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

JANUARY 22, 2016

These fourteen articles recap our thinking and recommendations across these three areas. Strategic Planning – All the Strategy Roles You Need. Strategic Thinking Perspectives – Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team. Strategic Visioning Exercises – Group Collaboration the Right Way.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

She’s trying to manage through three strategic expectations the senior management team and board have regarding a content marketing strategy: They want to keep everything on one Facebook page. The problem is the management team’s decisions about the content marketing strategy. Not a great situation.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 23, 2017

What the prospective client wants to achieve: “We’ve sold-in a specific strategic planning process methodology, so that’s the approach we need to take.”. The best way to make it happen: We’re proposing arranging our strategic planning exercises within the framework they have already advanced. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

MAY 2, 2017

Specific features include: 10 ways to simplify and strengthen the language you use to communicate strategic priorities. 9 ideas for introducing your strategic plan with style and impact to gain the organization’s attention and engagement. 4 keys for selecting the right collaborative leaders for implementation.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2017

I had the opportunity to see Dayton Moore, General Manager of the Kansas City Royals , discuss his perspective on organizational harmony as he opened the Jump Start 2017 conference in Atlanta. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. FREE Download: “Results!!! SMC 3 sponsors the annual conference.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 9, 2016

On a personal basis, certain strategic leadership basics are a good place to start adjusting your attitude and growth as a strategic leader. Organizationally, a change management assessment we use identifies the types of change challenge an organization faces, along with ideas for approaching them successfully.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 28, 2016

Are you looking for new, more effective ways to engage your employees in shaping and successfully carrying out your brand strategy? You need to download this FREE Brainzooming eBook, published with the Global Strategic Management Institute. D ownload Your Free Internal Branding Strategy eBook!

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

There are many temptations out there to cut corners, take the easy but questionable way, or engage in behaviors that seem okay in secret but are clearly not okay when exposed in the light of day. Provides the opportunity to engage with people daily. Daily mass creates engagement with other people first thing.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 5, 2016

My peers at the vice president level and above were, however, too often engaged in micro-managing budget details they could manage while not tackling tougher strategic issues within budgeting. 3 Ways to Turn Budgets into Strategic Planning Activities. Download your copy today! – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Not wasting time is a major part of why a Brainzooming strategy workshop is so focused on effective time management. Making deliberate decisions about group composition and activities – Players are getting used to working with a specific group and are always engaged to stay focused. The headline included the phrase “No Wasted Time.”.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2017

That is why wrapping strategy meetings in creative thinking exercises and the appropriate amount of fun and diversion is optimum. 80 Fun Strategic Planning Activities and Ideas! We’ve been facilitating fun strategic planning activities for years. 11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun. 4 Times to Avoid Toys.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

It was about fully-formed answers with no real support to help business and marketing managers do the strategic thinking to develop their strategies. The process was difficult, slow, and only worked because the consultant staffed the engagement with a bunch of MBAs that did the work for our people.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 10, 2017

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals is targeting both learning and emotion to prompt engagement and risk taking among its nearly 700 employees. To further engage its team, Ironwood asks staff to submit clever early-stage names for products in development. Cultivating a Resilient, Innovative Environment. Conquer Fears of Business Innovation!

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