BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

How is our leadership removing distractions to innovation (instead of creating them)? Which creative thinking questions from the most innovative companies will you take to your next leadership team meeting to focus the conversation on your own brand’s innovation strategy? – Mike Brown. Which ones would we accelerate?

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BrainZooming

MAY 16, 2017

You have a strategic plan completed by a small senior leadership team. You have just taken over leadership of a company. Your senior leadership team held a meeting to develop a strategic plan. Create the Vision to Align and Engage Your Team! Typical complaints about a strategic planning process. And now you’re scared.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

From the start, we have emphasized making strategic planning simple, engaging, and fun. They now include: A variety of free eBooks. The Idea Magnets book on creative leadership. Because when you allow people to positively shape the organization’s strategy and results, they’re empowered.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Our primary contact saw me speak in 2014 at Compete Through Service Symposium produced by the Arizona State University Center for Services Leadership and subscribed to the Brainzooming blog email. The only client contact for nearly three years was the blog email and an eBook download.

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CMOE

AUGUST 8, 2022

According to the Association for Talent Development (ATD), over 50 percent of professionals and managers believe a coaching culture offers benefits such as: Greater employee engagement: 65% of team members in a robust coaching culture are highly engaged. The Don’ts. Coaching guides people to solve problems and make decisions.

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BrainZooming

JULY 19, 2016

We use a diagnostic with senior leadership teams that ties to the ten innovation barriers. After leadership team members complete individual assessments, we collect and analyze the responses as input for a strategic conversation among senior leaders. You need to download our free eBook, “The Ten Big Nos to InNOvating.”

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BrainZooming

MARCH 15, 2017

After every idea is placed, the group engages in a strategic conversation about each idea’s placement. This involves working with the organization’s leadership team to identify important factors shaping strategic decisions. In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! , Take on leadership and responsibility for decisions.

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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. When you engage a broad group in strategic planning, the verbal communication takes the form of “strategic conversations.” A Broad Strategic Planning Process.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The organization is going through a major leadership transition. Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Engage employees and customers with powerful questions to uncover great breakthrough ideas and innovative strategies that deliver results! Photo by Emily Morter on Unsplash.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

A couple of online collaboration Zoomference workshop s (to engage the leadership team without them having to travel). A day-long, in-person leadership team visioneering workshop (to develop the main inputs into the strategic plan). In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! ,

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The title is from a leadership presentation that I do. Create the Vision to Align and Engage Your Team! Our free “Big Strategy Statements” eBook lays out an approach to collaboratively develop smart, strategic directions that improve results! 9 Ways to Understand the Political Fray and Stay the Hell Out of It.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 12, 2016

The question was what to do to get the leadership team comfortable with actually being casual and approachable on camera. D ownload Your Free Internal Branding Strategy eBook! Are you looking for new, more effective ways to engage your employees in shaping and successfully carrying out your brand strategy?

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Planview

JUNE 23, 2022

However, it is important for strategies and decisions to embrace the executive leadership perspective (aligning with organizational vision and priorities), and not just the technical perspective (addressing functional challenges and solving practical problems). Leadership Buy-In and Adapting Processes Top Down is Critical.

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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

MARCH 23, 2017

What they need to achieve: They need to deliver a plan with the framework their leadership has approved, but still make sure it’s collaborative and engaging in a way their strategic planning process never has been previously. Create the Vision to Align and Engage Your Team! The Struggle Between Major Decisions and Collaboration.

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Reading responses about the strategic planning challenges faced by executives downloading our eBooks suggests a variety of strong blog topics. Leadership sponsoring strategy planning. Are there opportunities to create greater engagement ? This necessitates looking for new and better approaches. This is not a unique situation.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 19, 2017

In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! , Take on leadership and responsibility for decisions. we share common situations standing in the way of successfully implementing your most important strategies. You will learn effective, proven ways to move your implementation plan forward with greater speed and success.

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BrainZooming

MAY 23, 2017

One way to instill the mindset that a functional department also needs to take on a leadership role in the organization during strategic planning (and afterward) is asking and answering these two strategic thinking questions: Within our strategic plan…. Create the Vision to Align and Engage Your Team! Our department will drive _?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 8, 2016

Thinking further about the leadership qualities it takes to successfully engage an innovation strategy in disguise reminded me of a litany of humility I read frequently. An Innovator’s Prayer for Humility. As an innovation leader, pursuing an innovation strategy in disguise requires a different perspective. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

I long ago learned an important lesson about corporate branding decisions : no matter how many intriguing, mentally-engaging brand strategy conversations you have among senior executives, those conversations NEVER lead to final decisions. In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! ,

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The occasion was presenting our first strategic market plan at Yellow Transportation (whose name was Yellow but whose color was orange) to the senior leadership team. Create the Vision to Align and Engage Your Team! Current Orange Socks. The presentation took place at Arrowhead Stadium, where the Kansas City Chiefs play.

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Inceodia

JANUARY 27, 2019

And beyond the desire for business growth, employees who are encouraged to innovate and problem solve are more engaged and happier with their work. Most smart business people would not attempt to pitch an idea to leadership without customer evidence of need. Get my Human Centered Innovation eBook. Ready to Upgrade?

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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. How do you motivate others – and yourself – to engage in greater creative thinking? We have free Brainzooming eBooks for you to help navigate barriers and boost innovation!

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 24, 2020

Check out our ebook, “Remote Work: the complete guide”. Leadership that acts as if it were in a traditional work environment is very demotivating for remote teams. And preferably, make the schedule a prior agreement, this will improve engagement and people will not feel unfairly burdened. Not having the right technology.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 7, 2017

We’ve used this technique to allow a leadership team the flexibility to talk in an open format, while capturing their strategic insights and organizing them in a way they can productively use. Create the Vision to Align and Engage Your Team! If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Strategic Coach offers curated content with blog posts, ebooks, worksheets, and guides to help entrepreneurs overcome roadblocks and achieve their goals. Building Champions Building Champions offers podcasts, books, and a leadership blog to enable professionals to be educated and motivated to consistently improve.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 22, 2017

How can you get the most mileage from the free strategic planning eBooks we regularly offer as downloads? Yet when we create new eBooks, our main goal is ensuring the content is heavy on ideas and tools you can apply to improve strategic thinking and implementation in your organization. Plus, we share it ALL THE TIME! – Mike Brown.

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Inceodia

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

A good collaborative exercise is to create a gallery of empathy interviews to bring your team and leadership through to immerse them in your customer’s world. This will require a shift in the behavior of your employees to develop those skills, and in your leadership to recognize and reward customer problem solving.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

As a consultant, I’ve worked with many organizations around the world on a wide array of projects, and while all enter the engagement with a sincere desire to “be innovative” — some have missed the target because their company culture was not ready to break away from old habits and accept change. This isn’t one of them. Timing is critical.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 28, 2015

I become so engaged in reciting the poem, mindful of both the rhythm and meaning of the words, that I let go of all other thoughts. The collection of 50 motivational quotes on what good leadership truly means will not only help you be a better leader, but a better coworker, mentor, manager, employee, and even a better person.”.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 1, 2021

In fact, when the dynamics change, even participants in senior leadership meetings report a surprising freedom to engage. Brainzooming has been employing this method as a productive way to build group engagement for nearly a decade. They’re empowered to share ideas that aren’t fully baked. We and our clients know it works.

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 20, 2018

If the data-driven intensity sounds familiar, that’s because the firm has its roots in the traditional consulting world and its leadership are professors at Harvard Business School. Based in NYC, this relative newcomer combines the discretion of a prestige consultancy with the high-touch engagement of a boutique. Drop us a line.

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 20, 2018

If the data-driven intensity sounds familiar, that’s because the firm has its roots in the traditional consulting world and its leadership are professors at Harvard Business School. Based in NYC, this relative newcomer combines the discretion of a prestige consultancy with the high-touch engagement of a boutique. Drop us a line.

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