BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2017

I jotted down the questions since I saw them as a strong strategic thinking exercise. A Strategic Thinking Exercise for Determining Trustworthiness. Applying this Strategic Thinking Exercise Broadly. This is a great example of a simple strategic thinking exercise to speed and sharpen decision making. We try to regularly offer these types of strategic thinking exercises both from others and from the Brainzooming R&D lab.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 22, 2017

We do not pretend to be able to imagine EVERY single situation where you might apply our strategic thinking exercises. One way we test that expectation is by working with the exercises ourselves to ensure their effectiveness and utility. Using Our Own Strategic Planning Exercises. Considering that, here’s an example of how, as one previous boss might say, we eat our own dog food (in this case, strategic thinking exercises ).

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

At an Idea Magnets workshop, we shared a strategic thinking exercise we call Rock-Paper-Scissors. In the post-workshop evaluation, one attendee asked about extending this strategic thinking exercise to identify things you aren’t currently doing that you should be doing. The individual asking the question suggested it as a fourth element of the Rock-Paper-Scissors strategic thinking exercise (perhaps as Rock Number 2).

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 11, 2016

It received enough attention that we decided to share an additional strategic thinking exercise that puts a twist on the typical SWOT analysis. To add depth and breadth to the strategic thinking exercise, however, we add four probes to each area of the SWOT analysis. Creating engagement with our employees ? You can use this strategic thinking exercise with a group to help them push their thinking into areas they might otherwise ignore – purposely or by accident.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Here is a way you can turn a typical strategic thinking exercise into something new and fun that both adds variety to your strategy meeting AND could trigger some new ideas to get our strategy out of a rut! Use a New SWOT Strategic Thinking Exercise Nobody Expects. Go into your next strategy meeting with a different spin on this important, yet tired old strategic thinking exercise. Yes, try a SWOT strategic thinking exercise looking for ideas that are: Scary.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

We’re getting a lot of questions currently about identifying the right strategic planning exercises. 10 Questions You Must Consider about Strategic Planning Exercises. If you’re among the executives planning for strategic planning, no matter what time of year, you need to ask these ten questions as you consider the right strategic planning exercises and approaches to pursue: Do we know what the expected outcome needs to be?

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Nook and cranny strategic thinking exercises. The nook and cranny strategic thinking exercises term popped into my head during a Brainzooming client workshop. This new exercise translated its internal brand promise into specific behaviors its five-hundred employees will use to create the experience. Each strategic thinking exercise poster had four or five brand dimensions on the Y-axis. You do the math with this strategic thinking exercise.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 22, 2016

The search term “strategic visioning exercises” has been consistently near the top recently for what has bringing people to the Brainzooming website. 14 Articles on Strategic Visioning Exercises. Strategic Visioning Exercises – Group Collaboration the Right Way. Strategic Visioning Exercises to Create a Vision Statement. Strategic Visioning Exercises – 5 Questions to Test Your Vision Statement Impact.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 16, 2018

The article inspired a laundry list of strategic thinking exercise prompts to re-imagine a threatened business model when your service offering is under assault from online offerings, bots, or some other form of complete automation. A New Strategic Thinking Exercise. Here is how we see this new strategic thinking exercise coming together. This strategic thinking exercise is straight from the Brainzooming R&D Labs.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Why Do We Give Away So Many Strategic Thinking Exercises? My response is the more we share the Brainzooming methodology with you, the more you can improve your own strategy work on a daily basis in situations where it would NEVER be practical to engage us for help. This is why we run compilation articles frequently to help you find a comprehensive set of resources, exercises, and tools. Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy.

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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. In case you missed any Brainzooming strategy planning eBooks, here are seven to jump start your strategic planning exercises and better engage your team in shaping your organization’s direction. The SWOT analysis is the workhorse of strategic planning exercises.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

During in-person and online strategic planning workshops , we regularly use a strategic thinking exercise that helps leadership groups quickly identify a shared future vision statement. This strategic thinking exercise allows a large group (perhaps hundreds of online participants) to provide targeted input on an organization’s future direction. Pushing Back on a Strategic Thinking Exercise. An Alternative Strategic Thinking Exercise to Develop a Vision Statement.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2016

Here’s an idea for a new strategic thinking exercise that can be a big help. 4 Ways to Examine Brand Performance as a Strategic Thinking Exercise. It struck me how a comparable concept (an Examination of Brand Performance) would be helpful as a strategic thinking exercise for monitoring your organization or brand progress throughout the year. This is definitely a strategic thinking exercise idea from the Brainzooming R&D lab.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

We have been working with a client that had done a lot of strategic planning exercises about a new initiative. Taking a look at the list, we started trying different approaches to arrange the big list of ideas from their strategic planning exercises into sensible groups to help stimulate progress. 6 Ways to Organize Ideas from Strategic Planning Exercises. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

From a facilitation standpoint, it was the most arduous couple of days of going through strategic thinking exercises I recall. In reality, I shared these eleven things going through my head at all times relative to the strategic thinking exercises we were using with the group: How quickly can I read the dynamics of this new group , even though I don’t have time for them to do meaningful self-introductions? 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results.

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BrainZooming

MAY 8, 2018

5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Engage Employees in Reorganization. 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. Whether you are just starting your strategy or think you are well down the path, you can use this eBook to: Engage your team. Related posts 16 Strategic Thinking Exercises Ready to Go for You Right Now!

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BrainZooming

MARCH 16, 2016

Whenever possible, we try to help clients select a mix of people to participate in group strategy exercises. We are also proponents for reaching beyond familiar people that are always involved strategic planning meetings and drive the outcomes of group strategy exercises. 9 Ideas on How to Involve a Team in Group Strategy Exercises. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 17, 2016

Here’s an overview of each of the strategic thinking exercises : 5 Content Marketing Strategy Exercises to Generate Audience-Oriented Topics. The initial exercise explored three phases of an audience member’s journey. The final phase (Decision) involved the audience member selecting, engaging, and evaluating the relationship with the outside party they chose. The second exercise used questions from the first one to generate content topic ideas.

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The Human Factor

DECEMBER 23, 2020

If you have already made the switch to remote working, or it’s something you are considering for the future, you might be wondering just how to engage your remote working employees. When it comes to engaging your remote working employees, training is at the top of the list.

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The Human Factor

APRIL 2, 2020

Whatever part of summer you like, there is always something you can do to keep yourself engaged and keep your wellbeing and mental health in check. But, do not feel down about it, as this article is here to help with some activity ideas you and the family can get involved in to engage your brain, and make your focused and happier in the summer months! Outdoor Exercise! One form of exercise that is great in the outdoors, is yoga. Really Embrace Nature as you Exercise.

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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. You can provide people with strategic thinking exercises, creative thinking tools, strategy questions, and ways to collaborate with one another, using structure to help imagine better strategies. Productive Structure for Strategic Planning Exercises.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

That realization was a breakthrough in how we would create a strategy development exercise back when I ran strategic planning for a Fortune 500 corporation. To them, a strategy development exercise involved PowerPoint slides with boxes and grids to complete. 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. The Secret to Making a Strategy Development Exercise Faster and Easier.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

I was the “interviewee” for an “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence about how to plan team building exercises that create impact for work teams. As described in the article, I’ve been on the good and bad side of various team building exercises during my career. Instead, we’ve tried to use the right mix of pre-packaged programs and custom designed team building exercises (i.e.,

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The Human Factor

JUNE 27, 2016

That’s why most companies spend a significant part of their budgets on marketing and advertising to develop customer engagement among repeat and new customers. But a recent Gallup survey suggests that developing customer engagement – which the company describes as “a customer’s emotional or psychological attachment to a brand, product, or company” – may offer a more effective growth strategy. Creating the Engaged Customer.

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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. We will introduce a new Brainzooming Fake Book soon that includes the exercises we will cover in the branding strategy workshop. Branding Strategy – Engaging an Internal Brand Team.

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The Human Factor

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Keeping your employees engaged is key if you want to boost morale, decrease retention, and experience a host of other benefits within your business. Your employees must be happy and engaged in the workplace for you to get the highest quality of work, the fewest sick days, save time and money, and more. Let’s talk about the must know for employee engagement in 2019 – take a look and you’ll see what you should think about doing: Virtual Reality. Contributed post –.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2016

3 Keys to Engaging Your Internal Brand Team. With that change in perspective, you introduce possibilities for engaging employee in shaping branding strategy. To complement the in-person workshop content, The Brainzooming Group collaborated with Breanna Jacobs at GSMI, the Brand Strategy Conference producer, to publish a new free branding strategy eBook called, “Engaging Employees as an Internal Brand Team: 3 Actionable Strategies.”.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 22, 2016

I debuted a presentation on “Results – Creating Strategic Impact,” our mini-book on employee engagement ideas to boost an organization’s strategic thinking. The question was whether it makes sense to try and engage employees in the ways I discussed when they aren’t likely to be around for very long. 5 Employee Engagement Ideas for High-Turnover Employees. 10 Employee Engagement Ideas to Improve Strategic Results.

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BrainZooming

JULY 12, 2016

Here are five keys we’ve found for successfully engaging employees in innovation strategy. The Brainzooming Buy-In Manifesto – 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy. If you want engagement and ongoing participation for developing and implementing an innovation strategy, start with these five keys. – Mike Brown. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 27, 2015

The reason is that working from the incredible resource of strategic thinking exercises, creative thinking tools, and collaborative models The Brainzooming Group has created, what Brainzooming does can vary dramatically for each client engagement. Brainzooming - All Posts Creativity Innovation Strategy strategic thinking exerciseWhen I’m asked what Brainzooming does , it’s always challenging to answer. The Long Answer – Strategy, Creativity, and Innovation.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 1, 2016

You have to engage your people so that they can engage prospects and customers with a lively sense of mission and purpose. Innovation Creative Thinking innovation execution Innovation Exercises michael graber Product Development Southern Growth StudioIn the Creative Economy, inspiring a sense of play in culture, marketing, and innovation is critical to success.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 2, 2017

Iterating – Using specific creative and strategic thinking exercises in a sequence to help the group generate many possibilities and ideas. Engage employees and customers with powerful questions to uncover great breakthrough ideas and innovative strategies that deliver results! Related posts Visioning Exercises for Strategic Planning – New eBook Shows You How! What types of strategic planning activities are in a strategic thinking workshop ?

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Kainexus

JANUARY 5, 2021

Even knowing that COVID-related disruptions will continue, it is still a healthy exercise to think about what your team can accomplish for continuous improvement in 2021. Employee Engagement Improvement Culture Improvement Methodology Strategy Deployment

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BrainZooming

JULY 24, 2017

Engage employees and customers with powerful questions to uncover great breakthrough ideas and innovative strategies that deliver results! Related posts Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas The 6 Types of Strategic Planning Activities for a Workshop Strategic Planning Process – 5 Secrets to Get 6 Months of Work Done in One Day New eBook: 11 Ways to Reimagine the SWOT Analysis Visioning Exercises for Strategic Planning – New eBook Shows You How!

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 13, 2019

As I’ve stated in the other change management articles on LaunchStreet, change management should be more than just a point-in-time exercise. Business Models Change Innovation Leadership Management change management culture engagement work cultureA strong change management program requires more than a strong change management plan. It requires a plan that transforms change management into an ongoing priority for your organization.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 3, 2017

3 Keys to Team Building Exercises that Create Impact. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Group Collaboration the Right Way. 3 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Spot Emerging Competitors. 5 Employee Engagement Ideas When Turnover Is High. Strategic Thinking Exercises to Better Anticipate Strategic Issues. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Finding Your Brand’s Strategic Analogs. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Who is the Positive Devil’s Advocate?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 15, 2015

While having a daily deadline has become less stimulating creatively over the years, I shudder to think of how much experience and the number of strategic thinking exercises that would have come and gone without any documentation if not for the Brainzooming blog. Blogging Brainzooming - All Posts blog strategic thinking exerciseYou start writing blog posts , stick with it nearly every day , repeat that for nearly eight years, and suddenly, you have two thousand blog posts.

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helloFUTURE

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Here is an interesting exercise in judging your companies employee engagement. corporate culture employee engagement leadership management Ways We InnovateIt requires a few days of effort and keen observation. First, block out your calendar for weekday mornings and afternoons, preferably a half hour before your typical workday starts, and until a half-hour after your workday ends.

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helloFUTURE

AUGUST 19, 2019

In many of our ideation sessions, we hold specific exercises to trigger new thinking. We almost always keep the attendees to a schedule and have a rigorous set of exercises that we put them through. corporate creativity culture design thinking digital transformation employee engagement ideas innovation leadership management Ways We InnovateThese range from physical movements, to mental games, to postulating concepts.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

Chuck facilitated multiple engaging, high-energy strategic innovation sessions for us at Yellow Corporation. 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. Using a few basic posters, we described the strategic thinking exercises, using easel pads and sticky notes to capture ideas.

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Michael Michalko

MARCH 3, 2017

Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. Encourage weekly lunch-time meeting of three to five employees to engage in creative thinking. Articles and Techniques Exercises . Simply put, the key to increasing creativity in any organization is to make it start acting like a creative organization. Suppose you wanted to be an artist: You would begin behaving like an artist by painting every day.

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Focused Momentum

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Role clarity is one of the most productive management exercises a team can engage in, so why it is so rarely used? I believe that one reason is that teams don’t have a tool to guide role clarity, so they don’t know how to engage in this type of exercise, and second, they don’t know when to it.

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Tim Kastelle

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Smith focuses on not so much on the exercise part, but on engaging directly with your environment as you walk. It’s an oblique approach to engaging with your problem, which is the most effective way to deal with complex systems. Solvitur ambulando – it is solved by walking. That’s the slogan for Keri Smith’s wonderful book The Wander Society (and here ).

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