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Crafting the Path to Success: Designing Leadership Team Offsites for Strategic Planning Triumph

Leapfrogging

Facilitating Effective Sessions When you’re tasked with designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning, the core of your success lies in facilitating sessions that are not only effective but also engaging. These activities should be tailored to your team’s dynamics and the goals of the offsite.

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The 10 Commandments of Effective Brainstorming

Gregg Fraley

The Sins That Ruin Idea Generation. ” Well, you bother because you need ideas. Work as individuals first, AND, then work as a team. The more diverse the team, in every sense of the word, the better . Stretch the idea generation work out over a week or more. I can get you there, see below. .

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WISE CHOICES: On Being a Team Leader With Very Little Time

Idea Champions

There are three things I've learned, about Team Leaders, in the past 33 years of working with these organizations. They want their teams to become more high performing. They have choices about which team building efforts to focus on. what your team learned from an experience, mistake, or "failure").

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Innovation Training Under Utilized

Gregg Fraley

When I step into a room to facilitate a strategy, innovation, or idea generation session I usually find a great deal of energy. Inappropriate meeting behavior that shuts down others, hosing collaborative work. Teams and work groups don’t know how to be collaborative. Almost always. And yes, this can be trained.

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Fractional Chief Innovation Officer (CINO)

Gregg Fraley

A Fractional CINO addresses these missing skill sets: The MisFortune 10,000 Tend to Lack These Innovation Skills: Process and Innovation Project Management Skills — including: team building, culture leadership, innovation project roadmapping, and more. Doing even basic market research takes training and experience.

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3 Innovation Specialists Busting the Myth About Brainstorming

Innovation in Practice

This is how Mark McGuinness defines the term: “‘Brainstorming’ is such a common word that it’s often used to describe any meeting or conversation designed to generate ideas. Once ideas have been generated, they are evaluated at a later stage, to see which are worth implementing.”. Mark McGuinness ).

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Nine Ways to Play at Work

Gregg Fraley

An emerging trend in busines s is using improvisation games as the basis for team building and problem solving. I’ll put play into your next meeting. Sunni Brown’s talk on Doodling is a personal favorite because she gets specific about how one can begin to be more creatively playful with problem solving.

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