Idea Champions is thrilled to welcome a fantastic, new member of our team , Brian Paul Allison. Brian is also the former Creative Director for The Adventure Game Theater , a wildly popular experiential curriculum of play, theater, and team building, featured on PBS. Brian plays two inter-related roles in what some past and present clients refer to as our "boutique consulting and training company": Sales Director and Creative Thinking Facilitator. MORE

Our Project Manager will work closely with your conference team to make sure that all of the puzzle pieces fit together and that nothing falls through the cracks. On site, the Idea Champions team will do everything possible to ensure that participant engagement is at an all-time high. MORE

Here's what I'm talking about: Some years ago, my company came together for a two-day team building offsite -- an "all hands on deck" outdoor ropes course experience in Colorado. MORE

I instantly knew that the book contained the foundation of the culture I would hope to build in MidAmerica—my only question was whether the MidAmerica team was ready for it. In preparation for the first offsite meeting I would have with my senior leadership team, I asked them to read the first chapter of the book so we could discuss it as a group. From these “simple truths”, my team and I worked to develop a structure that would support an Idea-Driven Organization. MORE

caption id="attachment_21197" align="alignleft" width="330"] Jeff Holden - "Build a team that has an experimental ethos"[/caption] Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon, states : “Our success at Amazon is a function of how many experiments we do per year, per month, per week, per day…”. MORE

Look for ways in which the old culture is codified in policies and procedures, or reflected in everything from team building exercises to corporate retreats, and change them to reflect a collaboration culture. MORE

Building upon this fundamental framework, the recently published Robert’s Rules of Innovation II: The Art of Implementation delves deeper into how to implement a culture of innovation in one’s work environment. It’s time to focus on what it is that you can do, which is to build an innovation team at your business that is inclusive of creative types. MORE

This side of the innovation balance sheet gives the commitment and sense of belief that can encourage investment, as the people side equates to the measurement of the team within a new venture. Those that are leading to improving the softer aspects of innovation (our left side of the innovation balance sheet) that would contribute to its build and health. Skill of working together effectively – team building, encouraging diversity. MORE

With the immediacy and flexibility imperative for success in challenging situations, brief plans tied to specific trigger events or event-based outcomes provide the ability to make decisions almost as a football team builds and executes a game plan. MORE

It seems to be a common team-building formula — except that (beyond Finland) the spa/sauna element is rarely used. Friday brought the second and final day of the World Open Innovation Conference in Napa. MORE

It’s the key to everything in my view, from culture change to positive team dynamics to effectiveness of an overall innovation program. 21 Rules for Innovation Team Building. A strong bold project initiative , with a clear vision for the future inspires teams. MORE

Corporations assign teams without skills or experience, rapidly conduct "brainstorming" exercises based primarily on current opinion or past experience and move as quickly as possible to present a small handful of ideas to a wary executive team. Third, as the product development and commercialization teams get burned by inadequate or poor concepts from the innovation activities, these teams downplay and "back burner" new concepts and focus on existing products. MORE

His newest book is titled, Great Teams: 16 Things High Performing Organizations Do Differently. You focus in the book on the notion that great sports teams build a strong high-performance culture. In considering how the word specifically applies to a team setting, I came up with two possible definitions: 1) the conditions within the organization that promote either growth or failure and 2) the shared understanding of what to do in adverse situations. MORE

Leadership consulting on innovation michael graber Southern Growth Studio Team building teamsAsk the hard questions. As a thriving consultancy, our primary vocation is providing insight that adds value to our clients. MORE

At a high-level, what we’re talking about is building organizations where employees are productive, personally fulfilled and able to respond adaptively to the dynamic work environment of a 21 st century organization. Building Autonomy Supporting Environments. MORE

These meetings have been variably referred to as leadership development programs, creative thinking trainings, innovation workshops, team building off sites, brainstorming sessions, strategic planning pow wows, senior team retreats, annual conferences, and business simulations. MORE

I was the “interviewee” for an “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence about how to plan team building exercises that create impact for work teams. 3 Keys to Team Building Exercises that Create Impact. MORE

caption id="attachment_21197" align="alignleft" width="330"] Jeff Holden - "Build a team that has an experimental ethos"[/caption] Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon, states : “Our success at Amazon is a function of how many experiments we do per year, per month, per week, per day…”. MORE

An emerging trend in busines s is using improvisation games as the basis for team building and problem solving. If you have a team that gets what you’re doing, do it. Or, just use a game from the Improv playbook as a way to warm up the group and get the team having fun. MORE

A problem which exists in many businesses in the region, as well as the rest of Europe, is that many think that innovation is related to “fun” and “playtime”, like team-building workshops. MORE

Diverse teams are more successful and innovative than homogeneous teams, as diverse team are better at managing opportunities and threats to create more success in a sustainable way. Commonality is important because team members who are holding the same attitudes, arguments, feelings or beliefs can work successful together. Photo credit: Create-Learning Team Building & Leadership via Foter.com / CC BY. MORE

Interacting (Networking, meeting, team building). 3 Keys to Team Building Exercises that Create Impact. Whether you are just starting your strategy or think you are well down the path, you can use this eBook to: Engage your team. MORE

Her experience has uncovered multiple ideas for how to create newness and build an entrepreneurial culture and spirit within an established parent organization. Building the Team. The first step in team building is identifying the rights tasks requiring entrepreneurism. MORE