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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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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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Can creativity training really improve your creativity?

Idea to Value

While this can be a fun way for fun team-building and teams to spend time together, it is less likely to result in longer-term improvement in their ability to solve problems or come up with creative solutions. So if you or your team have ever felt like their creativity could be improved, training can have a strong impact.

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Thinkpak: More Than Just a Brainstorming Too

Phil McKinney

This ingenious tool supercharges your creative process and takes your idea generation to the next level. It's not just about generating a multitude of ideas; it's about generating a multitude of quality ideas. Moreover, Thinkpak is an excellent tool for team building.

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Improv for Business

Gregg Fraley

Classic Improv games are adaptable for visioning, exploration, problem framing, idea generation, solution development, and planning. The key benefit is simply getting to a breakthrough insight or idea much faster. When you have a serious problem to solve, it’s time to “play” with the concepts involved.

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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. how things get done). -- Identify your team's key "How can we?"

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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. Training the teams, having a skilled facilitator in-house, and frequent practice of divergent thinking are essential to effective idea generation sessions. Almost always.