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9 Ideas on How to Involve a Team in Group Strategy Exercises

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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.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas

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It seems ridiculous to help a company become better at strategic thinking and marketing without being allowed to tell them how to do it. While this constraint may seem (and actually be) ridiculous, it shaped how the Brainzooming method developed. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas.

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Strategic Thinking Exercise – A SWOT Analysis to Push Thinking

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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. Need to get your strategy developed quickly? We can help!

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Team Collaboration – 14 Benefits from Pre-Meeting Outreach

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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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Answering Reader Questions on Strategy and Innovation Challenges

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. “Internal politics” 3 Strategies for Navigating a Political Environment. “Stickler to the old ways of doing things (and) not willing to get out of the comfort zone” How to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone. Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy. Innovation.

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7 Collaborative Strategic Planning Process Impacts (Even if the Plan Sits on the Shelf)

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Educates the organization on how to imagine and implement strategically. Are you up for discussing how this could benefit your organization? Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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 4 Ways to Make a Strategic Planning Process Productive

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People frequently complain about how a strategic planning process, whether accidentally or on purpose, is disconnected from employees’ regular duties and priorities. Too often, employees see strategic planning exercises as separate from and unrelated to what they need to do to run a business.