Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Setting the Stage for Success To set the stage for a successful strategic planning offsite, several key steps should be taken: Define Clear Objectives : Be clear about what you want to achieve during the offsite. Choose an Appropriate Venue : The location should be conducive to strategic thinking and free from interruptions.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

I suggested they invite potential market research partners to come in and present their credentials, experience, and initial thinking on helping the client explore what types of market research they will really need. A Request for Presentation will likely be a more fruitful RFP process than once focused on a Request for Proposal.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

These retreats are not merely a change of scenery but a strategic move to foster innovation and alignment among the top decision-makers of your company. The value of such gatherings lies in their capacity to refresh perspectives, encourage strategic thinking, and address complex challenges without the distractions of the office environment.

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Phil McKinney

AUGUST 24, 2023

Leaders who can think beyond today and set a vision for their organization are more successful in shaping its future. Visionary thinking involves thinking beyond the present and asking yourself what the future could look like. As a leader, I've witnessed the transformative power of visionary thinking.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

We led the group through a customized Brainzooming Innovation Fake Book of exercises. Strategic Thinking Exercise – New Product Idea Basics and Extremes in 30 Minutes. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Doing the Impossible with Nothing? Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2018

Seeing the question about how to boost an audience’s energy level ahead of time (and knowing they’ll want specifics), prompted this list of thirty things I’ve done during my career of designing and delivering interactive presentations and workshops. Present while walking throughout the room / audience. Take everyone outside.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future. By removing distractions and dedicating time solely to strategic thinking, you create an atmosphere where creativity and big-picture thinking can thrive.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Last year, I brought one attendee up with me on the stage and had the entire group help come up with ideas for the retail store she represented. During this year’s presentations, I’ll be covering both brand strategy (Thursday) and social-first stories (Friday). Strategic Thinking Exercises – Where Does Your Brand Live? .

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BrainZooming

MARCH 3, 2017

Yesterday, we identified the six types of strategic planning process activities we use to design a client’s strategic thinking workshop. To facilitate you going deeper into thinking about how these activities function within a strategic planning process workshop, here are articles in each of the six areas.

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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 can be done through surveys, one-on-one interviews, or group discussions.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 16, 2017

The Brainzooming Group has you covered, with eBooks to: Evaluate innovation opportunities and challenges. 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.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 6, 2018

We wasted significant time briefing agencies on our strategy only to find our knowledge about customers and markets didn’t translate to the branding work they presented. 7 Ways Groups Can Collaborate on Fun Strategic Planning. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 16, 2018

This is a new slide for a two-day innovation strategy workshop we’ll be presenting this week in Los Angeles. Mike Brown Founder of The Brainzooming Group, and an expert on strategy, creativity, and innovation. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media.

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CMOE

APRIL 21, 2023

Interactive presentation software rather than static PowerPoint presentations. Touchpoints may entail conversations and activities such as: Small group sessions – When training ends, virtual breakout rooms can discuss key takeaways and how team members plan to apply those to their roles. Contact CMOE today to learn more!

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

Speakers and presenters included professionals from around the globe; educators, actors, consultants, special-effects supervisors, directors, musicians, and others. It was what I’d imagined, as a child, that college would be like: a big group of friendly people who are genuinely excited about learning and doing good in the world.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Yet, since The Brainzooming Group works with many major corporations, it’s not like I don’t retain a sense of the upsides and challenges of working in the corporate world. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation. I tell them the only times I do are on the 15th and 31st of the month.

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BrainZooming

MAY 31, 2018

He was wrestling with a common challenge executives face when thinking about engaging an hourly workforce: How can I pull people off the line, shop floor, phones, or wherever else they are producing or serving customers to participate in this non-productive activity? Whether that concern surfaces immediately or later, it is always present.

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BrainZooming

JULY 18, 2018

We’ll be officially celebrating the book’s launch on Monday, July 23 with a live presentation at 11:00 am Central Daylight Time (US). An Idea Magnet on Filling the Well Creative Leadership – 1 Question to Ask for Stronger Performance Creative Thinking – 7 Keys to How “Idea Magnets” Boost Creativity.

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BrainZooming

MAY 13, 2016

The latest confirmation took place this week as we created and presented a new Brainzooming innovation workshop on how to develop insights to fuel innovation. We routinely present strategic thinking workshops on the exercises and tools The Brainzooming Group uses to develop and implement innovative ideas.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 10, 2019

Brainzooming participated in a new business presentation with a group of other companies. As our in-person presentation drew to a close, the review team asked about each of our experiences with comparable culture changes. We were proposing a change initiative for a multi-agency department within a city government.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Many people visit the Brainzooming website looking for ideas on making strategic planning fun. I’m a strategic planning guy, and even I don’t enjoy strategic planning the way it is typically handled for groups. Part of making strategic planning fun involves fun exercises , which we continue to create and share here.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2017

We instead used previous exposure, strategic thinking exercises with the IT team and others, and strategic business sense to describe what it seemed a corporate target would encompass. A Broad Strategic Planning Process. Related posts Strategic Planning Exercises – Have you tried a Zoomference yet?

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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. Yes, you can do too much of a good thing.

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BrainZooming

JULY 23, 2018

As part of the launch activities, you’re invited to a Facebook Live presentation I’m deliver on the seven Idea Magnets creative leadership strategies during the Leadership Institute conference. You can watch the presentation at 11:00 am Central Daylight time in the US (4 pm UCT). More Posts - Website Follow Me:

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Last week, The Brainzooming Group was in San Francisco for the Social Media Strategies Summit , where Mike presented a content marketing strategy workshop and a talk on collaborative engagement. What’s definitely necessary is to have the feedback of multiple representatives from each group. What words come up most often?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 6, 2016

And are the priorities you pick the same strategic priorities you said you’d emphasize when it was time earlier in the year for strategic thinking? Nearing last year’s close, I thought we knew specific changes in the make-up of The Brainzooming Group. Those questions are front and center for me.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

The tricky balance was articulating an initial direction the group couldn’t derail while providing room for them to contribute ideas and time to make the event successful. Remember that although these creative thinking skills are presented sequentially, they may be used in any order.

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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. The presentation took place at Arrowhead Stadium, where the Kansas City Chiefs play. On October 22, 1997, I wore orange socks for the first time.

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BrainZooming

JULY 19, 2016

From our experience at The Brainzooming Group and ongoing research, there are ten common innovation barriers blocking new idea and implementation across organizations. We group innovation barriers based on their ties to strategy, process, and people issues. Understanding which challenges you’re facing is vital. Strategy Barriers.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 25, 2016

Right after that article, The Brainzooming Group facilitated a small innovation strategy workshop with a client. The question emerged of how much prior thinking to share with the newly involved participants. We wrote recently about lowering the stakes for sharing creative ideas.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Small unknown group collaboration”. Group work”. I was thinking I may not be as included since I’m not from or otherwise generally associated with (the community).”. Collaboration was so easy with the group that I was with.”. One of best group brainstorming sessions in a long time.”. The team interaction”.

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 10, 2020

To capitalize on this, focus on understanding your strengths (like strategic thinking, influencing, or relationship-building), then leverage them to your advantage, versus fixating on your weaknesses. If you aren’t used to working on a team, get involved with some volunteer groups, and start working for some good causes.

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 10, 2020

To capitalize on this, focus on understanding your strengths (like strategic thinking, influencing, or relationship-building), then leverage them to your advantage, versus fixating on your weaknesses. If you aren’t used to working on a team, get involved with some volunteer groups, and start working for some good causes.

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Underperforming Technical Team Study Leadership Policies 52

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 eBook includes three strategic thinking exercises you can use with your internal brand team to invite collaboration, solicit input, and create early learning opportunities.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 18, 2015

And if you are part of a Brainzooming workshop or presentation, you can be pretty assured I have prayed not only for your openness to new thinking, but that I can humbly serve you with any and all talents I to help you. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2017

Chuck Dymer and I presented to a group of logistics managers in Chicago last week. The audience for the presentation consists of educators, landscape designers, government officials, and others involved with creating outdoor classrooms for children. The topic was how to handle uncertain times successfully.

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Michael Roberto

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The next significant block of time should be devoted to learning about and deliberating on critical strategic issues that are likely to require action in the intermediate-to-longer term, with the board chair prepared with specific questions to be addressed in order to focus those discussions.

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