BrainZooming

MAY 11, 2017

They counter suggesting strategic thinking questions as a starting point over-promises and ignores all the other dynamics involved. ANYTHING that gets leaders in these situations to imagine where they are vulnerable and how to disrupt themselves before someone else does is a HUGE HELP. Our response? Marketing strategies.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

That is evidenced by our web traffic as searches for effective strategic planning exercises and effective strategy meetings jump. Invariably, executives are seeking information on strategic thinking exercises suited to making strategic planning participants more effective and successful.

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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. What are the strategic decisions the plan must support? Related posts Visioning Exercises for Strategic Planning – New eBook Shows You How!

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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.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 21, 2023

Leaders can then receive recommendations on how to improve their empathetic communication. These digital coaches can offer personalized guidance and training on a range of topics, from communication skills and empathy to strategic thinking and goal-setting.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

An internal consultant at a healthcare company asked about ways to add value to many open-ended comments using a group strategic thinking exercise. Because a market researcher at her organizations facilitates the same exercise with their leadership team every year. Perform a ranking exercise. Why was she asking?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 27, 2018

To help them articulate the organization’s strategic direction , we used several branding exercises. These branding exercises focused on identifying: The organization’s strategic foundation. Future strategic aspirations. One meeting participant said this type of strategic thinking was a breakthrough for them.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

Articulating Your Strategic Innovation Direction in an Understandable Way. Strategic Thinking Questions to Identify What Matters for a Brand. Workplace Diversity – The Why, Who, and How of Strategic Thinking. Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives.

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BrainZooming

MAY 1, 2017

For each characteristic, here are related Brainzooming articles with exercises and tips to improve your own performance creating strategic impact. Strategic Thinking Exercise – Simply Making Big Decisions. Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Through a blend of strategic planning sessions, team-building activities, and reflective exercises, a well-designed offsite can unlock new perspectives, ignite creativity, and lay the groundwork for transformative growth. Conversely, if your team excels in operational details, encourage activities that stretch their strategic thinking.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The table below outlines several competencies that can be adapted to include an innovation focus: Competency Description Innovative Aspect Strategic Thinking The ability to analyze and conceptualize long-term business strategies. Encourages leaders to seek out emerging trends and technologies that could influence future markets.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 27, 2019

and Sam Stewart about how Av oiding Disruption Requires Rapid Decision Making. They advance a model explaining superior fighter pilot performance as a recommended way for how to avoid disruption in your markets. How to Avoid Disruption with SODA. The challenge lies in how to innovatively bring the acronym to life.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

This phase lays the groundwork for a successful meeting where strategic goals can be effectively developed and refined. It should be conducive to the creative and strategic thinking that you aim to foster among your executive team. This exercise should be thorough, as it lays the groundwork for informed strategy development.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 31, 2017

Is there something or some place you can go to get ideas on how to develop a strategy workshop? Since this was a recent search topic here, we are sharing our recommendations for ideas on coordinating a strategic planning process workshop. Using structure, exercises, and strategic thinking questions effectively.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Strategic Thinking Exercises – 5 Questions to Test Your Vision Statement Impact . Strategic Thinking Exercises – Where Does Your Brand Live? . How to Brand a Company – 7 Types of Brand Language You Should Use . Expressing Clear Brand Benefits. Creating a Compelling Brand Promise.

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Strategy Strategy Strategic Thinking Exercises 71

BrainZooming

MARCH 2, 2017

What types of strategic planning activities are in a strategic thinking workshop ? As we collaborate with a client to design strategic planning activities for a strategic thinking workshop , we explore various possibilities. 6 Potential Strategic Planning Activities for a Workshop.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 10, 2018

Strategic Thinking Exercises – 8 Ideas for Brand Innovation. Strategic Thinking – What Kind of Perfection Are You Looking For? Strategic Thinking Lessons – Keeping Your Company Fresh. Still looking for more on how to accelerate your innovation strategy? Sharing an Innovation Vocabulary.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

We’ll use highly productive strategic and creative thinking exercises. We’ve done this hundreds of times, so we know how to adapt our strategic planning methodology so it’s highly efficient for you. We don’t like spending any more time than you do on strategic planning, so we’re always working to streamline it.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 6, 2016

The branding strategy workshop came about from talking to too many executives that think it’s okay to let employees in on branding changes at the same time (or even after) customers learn about them. We will introduce a new Brainzooming Fake Book soon that includes the exercises we will cover in the branding strategy workshop.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

I was talking with someone who was wondering aloud about how to boost the creative thinking skills of a group made up primarily of fact- and logic-driven individuals. Think accountants, engineers, compliance officers, and others in right-wrong answer professions. What a great (and challenging) question.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 16, 2017

Use the strategic thinking exercises in Accelerate to help identify new possibilities for people, funding, and resources to jumpstart your innovation strategy. Outside-In Innovation Strategic Thinking Tools. 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. Taking the NO Out of InNovation.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2018

One question (which we think MAY have been included by mistake on the list of topics they sent us) is what we do when energy is diminishing during a workshop. Move to the Shrimp creative thinking exercise. Introduce an ice breaker exercise – even in the middle of the presentation (and do funny riffs on peoples’ answers).

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Exercises Creative Thinking Creativity Groups 81

BrainZooming

JUNE 8, 2017

If you are concerned about your organization’s strategy being disconnected from important aspects of your organization, contact us , and let’s talk about how to make strategic planning productive and integral to running your company in the year’s ahead. Implementation Strategy – How to Create Strategy for Results.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Setting the Stage for Creative Thinking Skills for Sales. Structure and Creative Thinking Skills. Strategic Thinking and 10 Fundamentals of Creating Strategic Impact. How to Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone. Embracing a Strategic Sales Perspective. Expanding Creative Thinking Skills for Sales.

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BrainZooming

MAY 2, 2016

How to benefit from structures and exercises to spur creative ideas and innovation. New possibilities to improve innovation strategy successes amid challenges to new thinking and actions. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

MAY 27, 2016

Or maybe a competitor HAS figured out how to deliver the brand promise, but it can’t do it profitably, efficiently, or consistently. One competitive response is to try to explain to customers why they don’t really need what they think they need. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

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.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

Someone downloaded a free Brainzooming strategy eBook, noting his biggest strategy challenge is “how to do a strategic planning process when you are new.” ” That question relates to something we do all the time: walk into a new client in an unfamiliar industry to design and facilitate a strategic planning process.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 22, 2017

This exercise produced my biggest personal insight about creative thinking skills: When you need huge thinking, don’t ask for big ideas ; instead, use big questions to cultivate extreme creativity and breakthrough ideas. Identify alternative internal strategies to secure support.

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Creative Thinking Creativity Strategic Thinking Exercises 67

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

“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 Planning Process. “Helping train my team to be strategic thinkers and not just executors” Creative Thinking Skills for Sales – A Workshop Approach. Innovation.

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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. Gain a sense of what people already think. Better strategize how to introduce challenging points of view.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

A 13-Point Strategic Change Management Checklist. Strategic Thinking about What to Keep and What to Creatively Change. Why Change Is Hard – 3 Strategic Thinking Ideas for Making Change Easy. Creating Strategic Impact – How to Start? Confronting Individuals’ Change Challenges. Just Start!

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 27, 2017

How can we adopt those same moves to protect and improve what we do now? These types of scenarios set the stage for dramatically different strategic thinking and innovative possibilities. Livening up strategic discussions with exercises designed to generate disruptive ideas. Here is your answer.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises Disruption Meeting 55

BrainZooming

AUGUST 9, 2016

We offer a wide variety of strategic thinking exercises to change perspectives and look at day-to-day and longer-term problems in novel ways. ” strategic thinking exercise as a flexible tool suitable for many situations. How do you build a team to move forward in a new direction?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 5, 2018

The early input shapes the strategic priorities, innovation exercises , and additional deliverables to foster successful implementation. Is your management team looking for collaboration and innovation, but concerned about how it will impact the focus on efficient daily operations? Want to maximize innovation AND efficiency?

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Analysis Strategic Thinking Survey Strategy 66

Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

A high XQ in executive teams equates to an in-depth understanding of how to apply knowledge in a variety of contexts, particularly in unpredictable environments. XQ is not merely about what we know, but how we apply that knowledge effectively. The integration of XQ into executive functions is a potent tool for driving innovation.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2017

More effectively creates alignment in strategic thinking. Educates the organization on how to imagine and implement strategically. Helps make yes and no decisions about what initiatives to pursue easier. Broadens the understanding of what’s important to the organization.

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