Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from daily operations, you and your team can focus on long-term goals, engage in deep discussions, and forge stronger bonds. For insights on orchestrating successful offsites, consider exploring leading executive team offsites for business strategy , which delves into best practices and effective leadership approaches.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Let’s dive into the pivotal advantages of integrating avatars into your innovation strategy, supplemented by three fun examples illustrating how avatars can be leveraged: Flattening The Hierarchical Landscape Avatars push ranks to the sidelines, spotlighting ideas instead. I help organizations build a sustainable culture of innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 18, 2021

The Leadership Alignment Workmat provides a unique examination of the executive’s role in innovation, it offer a framework that the leadership of the organization can adopt to ensure linkages and synergies between strategy and innovation, innovation and capabilities, innovation and culture. We call this the engagement- alignment gap.

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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. The Results eBook makes our case for collaborative strategy planning among your organization’s employees (and even, in many cases, your customers).

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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. Yet, they are vital.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Engaging in these activities can yield numerous benefits, including: Enhanced Communication : Regular virtual interactions help in honing communication skills, making team members more comfortable and effective in expressing their ideas and concerns. They encourage creative thinking and problem-solving in a fun and competitive environment.

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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. Need Fresh Insights to Drive Your Strategy?

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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. First, detail all the elements of your current service offering.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises eBook Strategy 81

BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

We see seven keys to creating an innovative workplace culture where individuals are able to meaningfully contribute to the organization’s innovation strategy. It’s vital to point your innovation strategy in a direction. What is the first innovation strategy question to ask? 5 Ideas for Turning a Vision Statement into Strategy.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. For deeper insights on leading such initiatives, explore our article on leading executive team offsites for business strategy.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Leaders who exhibit high levels of emotional intelligence are more likely to engage their employees, foster a collaborative culture, and navigate the intricacies of organizational dynamics successfully. Below are strategies for fostering emotional intelligence in leaders.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 12, 2024

To cultivate self-awareness, leaders can engage in self-assessment and reflection, which allows them to gain insight into their emotional state and how it affects their leadership style. Engaging in regular self-assessment and reflection paves the way for growth and improvement in emotional intelligence.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

They play a pivotal role in providing insights and strategies that can transform the dynamics of team interaction and cooperation. For more in-depth strategies that keynote speakers may utilize to boost team-building, see our article on keynote speaker strategies for team-building.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 17, 2016

I’m at the Social Media Strategies Summit in Dallas today, delivering a two-hour workshop on developing a branded content marketing strategy. We recently conducted a dedicated content marketing strategy workshop for a client on this very topic. The client is a non-profit focused on healthcare.

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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. – Mike Brown. – Mike Brown.

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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. The event is the Brand Strategy Conference. Our content addresses collaborative ways to strategically engage employees in creating and delivering the best brand experience. Mike Brown.

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Engagement Strategy Strategy Strategic Thinking 40

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Leaders who exhibit high levels of emotional intelligence are more likely to command respect and inspire their teams to achieve greater productivity and engagement. Our article on leadership and self-awareness provides additional strategies for managing stress.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

A dynamic speaker can transform the atmosphere, creating an engaging and thought-provoking experience for all attendees. Their talks are designed to provide you with strategies and practical tips that can be applied to foster a more innovative environment within your organization.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 18, 2023

Shifting strategy always has significant implications, and the real need to understand whether it fits with what we have available generally makes deliberate questioning of the eventual role of innovation’s contribution and ability to deliver. They are not deep into the strategic evaluations and are often ill-equipped when second-guessing.

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Guidelines Innovation Strategy Strategy 342

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 18, 2021

The Leadership Alignment Workmat provides a unique examination of the executive’s role in innovation; it offers a framework that the organisation’s leadership can adopt to ensure linkages and synergies between strategy and innovation, innovation and capabilities, innovation and culture. We call this the engagement- alignment gap.

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Leadership Engagement Innovation Strategy 130

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

What are all the change management strategy roles a change agent plays? As we worked on strategic thinking exercises to explore the company’s future vision and user experience, the change management strategy vocabulary the group used was conventional, unemotional, and lacking innovative thinking. – Mike Brown.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Developing an innovation culture within leadership requires a strategic approach, including implementing leadership development strategies that embed innovation as a core competency. To further explore the characteristics of high potential leaders, consider reviewing our leadership development strategies for additional insights.

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BrainZooming

MAY 8, 2018

5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Engage Employees in Reorganization. Looking for Fresh Insights to Drive Strategy? 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.

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Strategic Thinking Engagement eBook Exercises 56

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

I’m delivering a workshop at the Social Media Strategies Summit in San Francisco today. It will cover creating a sustainable, social-first content marketing strategy. Angelo has also brought us to Curaçao for content marketing strategy workshops the past two years. Developing an audience persona. Finding the cool in a brand.

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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. Benevolence?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

We’re getting a lot of questions currently about identifying the right strategic planning exercises. That continues to surprise me, since I’d expect everyone is focused on implementing strategies at this point. 10 Questions You Must Consider about Strategic Planning Exercises. We see it with our clients, though.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2018

We have designed several branding strategy scopes of work recently where the available time between developing strategy and implementation is tight. In these cases, a critical question arises: How do you open branding strategy development to other partner organizations to create a seamless implementation process?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 12, 2024

Leaders can develop self-awareness by engaging in introspection, seeking feedback, and being open to new perspectives. Leaders looking to enhance their empathy skills can benefit from active listening exercises and empathy training. Empathy Exercises: Engage in exercises to enhance empathy.

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Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Case Study Exercises 100

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. It received enough attention that we decided to share an additional strategic thinking exercise that puts a twist on the typical SWOT analysis. We can help! Mike Brown.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Analysis Underperforming Technical Team 40

BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2017

Their processes turned out to be lax and inconsistent, which resulted in their customer experience strategy being the same. 3 Steps to Developing Consistent Customer Experience Strategy Processes. Off the top of my head, I suggested the following strategy to strengthen the consistency of their customer experience strategy.

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Strategy Strategy eBook Strategic Thinking 74

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Going into a strategy meeting today that is sure to be a snoozer ? Even if you are going into the meeting with the same old people , the same old topics, and the same old expectations to just get a strategy done and put into a notebook on a shelf so you can go back to doing what you’ve always been doing, there is hope! Outrageous.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Analysis 40

BrainZooming

JULY 17, 2018

That happens when strategic planning becomes too complex, gets detached from real business issues, or the whole process focuses on trying to complete cumbersome strategy templates. 16 Strategic Thinking Exercises Ready to Go for You Right Now! Strategic Thinking Exercises – More than 200 Strategic Planning Questions.

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Strategy Strategy eBook Strategic Thinking 60

Leapfrogging

APRIL 12, 2024

These strategies enable leaders to remain calm and clear-headed in challenging situations. Leaders can develop empathy by genuinely engaging with team members, actively listening to their concerns, and making an effort to understand their challenges and motivations.

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Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Case Study Training 100

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

During this year’s presentations, I’ll be covering both brand strategy (Thursday) and social-first stories (Friday). 9 Areas to Tune-Up Your Brand Strategy for Peak Performance. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 5 Questions to Test Your Vision Statement Impact . Strategic Thinking Exercises – Where Does Your Brand Live? .

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Strategy Strategy Strategic Thinking Exercises 71

BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2016

I’ll be presenting a Brainzooming workshop on internal branding strategy at the Brand Strategy Conference in New York, April 6-8. The workshop, while drawing on material from my Fortune 500 work, springs from multiple conversations at the 2015 Brand Strategy Conference. 3 Keys to Engaging Your Internal Brand Team.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2022

There’s no denying there’s fierce competition in play to retain top talent, and HR and other business leaders are increasingly turning to evidence-based strategies to accommodate their workforce’s mental health needs in a bid to keep employees. Numbers don’t lie. Beneficial for all.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

Since all the companies competed with one another, each one needed to determine its own business strategies. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas. If it was off-target, we’d suggest alternative strategic thinking exercises to try.

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