BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

We were facilitating report outs at a strategy planning workshop after multiple teams tackled developing high-level plans to improve various employee challenges in a relatively high-performing company. Four of the five report outs in this strategy planning workshop were delivered by female leaders in the organization.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 8, 2018

Who should you invite to participate in an innovation strategy workshop ? We’ve written about three important strategic perspectives (general management, functional expertise, and people with creative energy) and three types of voices (traditional, challenger, and emerging) to include in any type of strategy workshop.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the daily operations, you and your leadership team can focus on long-term goals, team building, and innovative thinking. These gatherings are critical for aligning leadership on company vision, strengthening interpersonal relationships, and making decisions that will steer the company’s future.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

During in-person and online strategic planning workshops , we regularly use a strategic thinking exercise that helps leadership groups quickly identify a shared future vision statement. Pushing Back on a Strategic Thinking Exercise. We turn that input into a collaborative vision statement.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 9, 2016

What are your expectations from a creative thinking workshop? That is the first question I ask the audience at a Brainzooming creative thinking workshop. 7 Expectations from Creative Thinking Workshop Training. At that workshop, we concentrated on the “What’s It Like?”

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CMOE

MAY 28, 2021

With the changing needs and demands of clinical care, technology, and spending, leadership in healthcare must stay agile to keep up with the shifting tides. Who Fills the Leadership Role in Healthcare? Many individuals fill leadership roles in healthcare. Here are the five essential qualities for leadership in healthcare.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Instead, a more holistic approach to leadership intelligence is required—one that includes Experiential Intelligence (XQ). The Importance of Innovation in Executive Leadership Innovation is the lifeblood of any successful organization. The integration of XQ into executive functions is a potent tool for driving innovation.

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CMOE

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Supervisors and managers both hold leadership positions. Applying the right leadership style for a given situation. Providing supervisors with advice on how to navigate challenges and improve their leadership skills. Similarities Between a Supervisor and Manager. Differences Between a Supervisor and Manager.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Eight years ago today, I published an article about personal leadership, asking the question, “What would you do with an extra day?” That proved to be true; since that time, we have collaborated on two American Marketing Association national market research conferences several years ago and a creative workshop a few months ago.

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BrainZooming

MAY 29, 2020

Zane wanted to develop and share content that addressed what business executives need to be thinking about in strategy, innovation, branding, and creative leadership. Immersive development workshops for your leadership team to accelerate your business results. The possibilities include: Webinars for your audience members.

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Innovation 360 Group

JULY 10, 2018

Background: Senior leader with blend of strategic thinking and execution. Leadership. Nokia Corporate Leadership program. Motorola Leadership Accelerated Program (LeAP). Solution Selling Skills Development workshop by Links Development, UK. Power Based Selling workshop, India. Sales & Marketing.

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BrainZooming

MAY 31, 2018

Salaried team members are also, in theory, being pulled away from productive activities more directly related to their jobs when they participate in innovation workshops. No matter who is participating in the innovation activities, leadership is signing up for a near-term financial hit. That reasoning changes the business decision.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2017

How do you move from creative thinking into action? That was a persistent question during a recent Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop that also included a heavy dose of content on creative thinking. They also wanted a sense of when and why you should think creatively. I loved the questions.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Is your strategy team tired of the same old strategic thinking exercises ? Is your leadership team expressing its frustration with the inability to generate new insights about your brand’s strongest market opportunities? It offers fresh ideas for using one of the most common strategic thinking exercises.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Our primary contact saw me speak in 2014 at Compete Through Service Symposium produced by the Arizona State University Center for Services Leadership and subscribed to the Brainzooming blog email. Here’s to a wonderful, productive, and beneficial workshop with our new client, and our hope that it leads to a long relationship.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Learn all about how Mike Brown’s workshops on creating strategic impact can boost your success! If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 15, 2017

Prioritizing Strategic Opportunities. One frequent prioritization approach works well when we have tons of ideas in a strategy workshop and need to quickly (and spontaneously) narrow them to a manageable number. With more time, we frequently develop a decision support tool for a client to use in prioritizing strategic opportunities.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 26, 2018

I participated in the City Partnership Workshop yesterday at the 2018 Gigabit City Summit. Talking with one city’s representatives about strategies to sell-in a broadband recommendation with voters, they asked whether it is okay to engage its citizens after city leadership develops a recommendation.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2017

Knowing where to place your innovation thinking becomes critical; it is knowing where the leadership places its importance, its ‘bets to win’. Workshops on the Executive Innovation Work Mat can be delivered as outlined in this suggestion one: ( Intervention Approach Work Mat 2017 ). Strategy informs”.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

. “The matrixed nature of our vast organization” Creating Strategic Impact – 3 Strategic Planning Ideas in a Matrix Organization. Strategic Planning Process. “Helping train my team to be strategic thinkers and not just executors” Creative Thinking Skills for Sales – A Workshop Approach.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

New, non-US leadership working with the seasoned, US-based team that stood up the new operation is still involved in oversight. We used a pre-workshop outreach soliciting input on opportunities and pain points. We coupled this with multiple in-person workshop exercises to identify and prioritize more than one hundred pain points.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 22, 2019

The CliftonStrengths exam sorts people based on four different domain areas : Strategic thinking: how do you absorb, think about, and analyze information? Promising to help you find insights into leadership, initiative, and innovation, this personality assessment may be another good option for your organization.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 9, 2017

I dropped a variation of the question into an online collaboration workshop for a client’s strategic planning process. Based on the results, it has a new role as a strategic planning question. The organization is going through a major leadership transition. Photo by Emily Morter on Unsplash.

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CMOE

APRIL 21, 2023

Plan Around Limitations Remember that virtual learning, whether it be digital on-demand courses on an eLearning platform or video conferencing workshops, cannot foster community independently. Feedback can be through individual conversations or quick workshop evaluations and surveys. Contact CMOE today to learn more!

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

To avoid the pitfalls of a static strategy and ensure your business is future-proof, it’s essential to foster a culture of agility and strategic foresight. Cultivating a Forward-Thinking Mindset The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Learn all about how Mike Brown’s workshops on creative leadership can boost your team’s success! Related posts Creative Leadership – Do Idea Magnets Get a Pass on Empathy? If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2017

Tomorrow, I’ll be closing the Nature Explore and The Outdoor Classroom Project Leadership Institute with a comparable message. Next month, Emma Alvarez Gibson and I will be delivering a couple of workshops for the Friends of Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites. The topic was how to handle uncertain times successfully.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

It requires a shift in your strategic thinking, urging you to anticipate changes and react with precision. To foster a strategic mindset among your leadership team, consider the insights from 10 ways to get your leadership team thinking strategically and building the best business strategies.

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CMOE

JULY 19, 2022

Yet: 58% of workforce members haven’t received leadership training. 77% feel there is a leadership gap at their company. workforce) express that their leadership skills are not fully developed. There is a lack of leadership, and this situation needs to change. What Are Leadership Skills? Communication. Delegation.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 6, 2016

We’re developing a strategic thinking webinar for a client on cultivating and sustaining creativity among its salesforce. Since the webinar is with the organization’s sales leadership, the focus is on creative thinking skills they can and should be embracing to help their salespeople see opportunities in new ways.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 25, 2016

At a Brainzooming internal branding strategy workshop I was presenting , one attendee remarked about wanting more vision statement examples. From what she described, her company’s leadership had rushed to develop big strategy statements (such as a core purpose, vision statement, or mission statement), but was now rethinking its direction.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2016

Here’s an idea for a new strategic thinking exercise that can be a big help. 4 Ways to Examine Brand Performance as a Strategic Thinking Exercise. This is definitely a strategic thinking exercise idea from the Brainzooming R&D lab. First though, a little background. What’s an Examination of Conscience?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 22, 2017

How can you get the most mileage from the free strategic planning eBooks we regularly offer as downloads? We do not pretend to be able to imagine EVERY single situation where you might apply our strategic thinking exercises. I was working yesterday on designing an upcoming strategic planning Zoomference for a client.

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IdeaScale

JULY 4, 2017

After all, due to the rapid pace of change, the skills critical to your success are innovation skills : creativity, critical thinking, communication, strategic thinking, and problem solving. Most of us didn’t major in “innovation” in college or even have a course or a single 2 hour-long workshop on the topic.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This blend of personal and social competencies forms the bedrock of effective leadership, directly impacting a leader’s ability to navigate the complexities of the workplace. For more on how these components play out in practice, see our article on emotional intelligence in leadership.

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