BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

Depending on the nature of the pre-meeting outreach you conduct with participants, it can promote team collaboration and help: Get to know participants better and figure out how to best work with them. Understand the nature of disagreements or contrarian points of view, especially how accurate, deeply held, and unchanging they are.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 8, 2016

When individuals download our free Results!!! mini-Book, we ask a question about the biggest strategy implementation opportunity or challenge the individual is facing in his or her organization. Someone downloaded Results!!! Creating Organizational Change and Change Management – 4 Strategy Options. Moving Forward.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 1, 2016

Collaborative planning implies a process that goes beyond the board room to include individuals throughout the organization in meaningful ways to provide insights and input to shape organizational strategy. A large group really makes collaborative strategy planning work. Download our Results!!! FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

We’ll figure out how to turn insights, ideas, and initiatives into realities that actually move your business ahead! FREE Download: “Results!!! In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Yesterday’s post on using a new type of SWOT analysis to stimulate bolder strategic conversations in strategy meetings garnered quite a bit of attention. This helps a group inside of a strategy meeting work harder and more effectively to generate ideas. Need to get your strategy developed quickly? We can help! Mike Brown.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Analysis Underperforming Technical Team 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We apply that approach no matter whether we’re clarifying strategy, determining objectives, developing the strategy plan, or beginning implementation. If you need new ideas about how to approach strategic opportunities and challenges, a collaborative workshop to imagine a variety of possibilities can be very productive.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

Most executives can’t write a strategy plan, so don’t make them. Executives that SHOULD know how to develop and write a strategic plan struggled. Since strategy planning is an infrequent activity, it is difficult for executives to master it. Strategy Implication: Adding more people is only part of the equation.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

Dilbert and Screwing Up How to Request Employee Ideas. How Creative Thinking Gets Killed by Team Members – 8 Fatal Blows. FREE Download: “Results!!! In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Actively engage more employees in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Here are four different approaches The Brainzooming Group employs with clients: Instead of using complex strategic exercises that aren’t beneficial outside planning, we use strategic thinking questions that fit how people think and work on a daily basis. FREE Download: “Results!!! – Mike Brown.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Engagement Strategy 40

BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

Since all the companies competed with one another, each one needed to determine its own business strategies. It seems ridiculous to help a company become better at strategic thinking and marketing without being allowed to tell them how to do it. FREE Download: “Results!!! When I tell people this story, they chuckle.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming 40

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. Sometimes they proceed an in-person strategy planning meeting, but not always. They developed a sales strategy and associated messaging for the upcoming year. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Frequently, when I write a story along the lines of how to fake it until you make it some folks will say you should never fake it. FREE Download: “Results!!! They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

At the 2016 Brand Strategy Conference, Antonia Dean, Director – Marketing, Brand Development, & Strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies covered the strategic thinking ideas behind creating an entrepreneurial environment in a large company. You don’t know how to get a UPC code attached to a new product?

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Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Company Culture 40

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

No matter an organization’s size, employees interacting with customers need to know how to manage potentially negative situations before they reach popular social networks and run the risk of spreading widely. Understanding the lifetime value accurately helps brands make good decisions on when and how to invest in customer relationships.

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