Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 8, 2017

Get Training! Inexperience in: the kind of divergent thinking necessary to innovate, in specific meeting behaviors and facilitation skills, and in innovation process, approaches and frameworks. Your innovation efforts will fail without training. Creativity and innovation training feeds innovation like wood wool feeds flame.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Training Accelerates Innovation. Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation . Specifically: No fluidity in free-associative divergent thinking necessary to innovate — people do not know how to think like innovators! And yes, this can be trained. Your innovation efforts will fail without training.

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Idea Champions

MAY 15, 2019

Here's what three savvy PR professionals at Purple Strategies had to say about Idea Champions' highly engaging brainstorm facilitation training: Conducting Genius. Our success as a firm depends on our ability to think about tough challenges in new and creative ways, often on short timelines. In defense of brainstorming.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 28, 2019

Idea Champions has trained quite a few PR and Marketing firms in the art and science of facilitating breakthrough brainstorming sessions. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, Idea Champions' ability to quickly and effectively teach my colleagues and me how to facilitate brainstorming sessions changed the future of our business. "Our

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

4 Steps of Creative Problem Solving. Ideate: brainstorm and explore ideas. Creative Problem Solving Techniques & Activities. There are many techniques and activities that can be used to apply the creative problem solving methodology to your unique challenge. The Creative Thinking Handbook. Impossible!

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Idea Champions

APRIL 9, 2024

The service we provide is the distillation of what we've learned, since 1987, designing and facilitating more 1,500 creative thinking sessions for 130 organizations in 11 countries. Bottom line, we know how to open the floodgates of creativity. question for your team to brainstorm. One size does not fit all.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

We could tell you how awesome our brainstorm facilitation training is, but we're not sure you would believe us. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, Idea Champions ' ability to quickly and effectively teach my colleagues and me how to facilitate brainstorming sessions changed the future of our business. "At

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 2, 2024

Ideation techniques serve as powerful tools for unlocking creativity, enabling teams to think outside the box and explore new possibilities. While some methods like SCAMPER and brainstorming cards are well-known, there are other effective techniques that can greatly enhance your innovation program.

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Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Find the most creative people at work and ask for their ideas. Brainstorm daily with a co-worker. Go for a daily brainstorming walk. Invite your customers and vendors to brainstorming sessions. Think of five other ways to define your challenge. Take the train, instead of driving to work. Take more naps.

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Idea Champions

JULY 24, 2017

Every brainstorm session you will ever facilitate or attend, like any good movie you will ever see, can be divided into three parts: the beginning, the middle, and the end. THE BEGINNING: This is the "foreplay" stage of brainstorming -- the mood and context setting effort that will either make or break the session.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Enables Tiered Thinking: The different tiers of mind maps create solid context and comprehensible branches so you can review any level of your solution at a glance. Cater to Your Brain: Mind maps structure brainstorming in a way that is naturally understandable by your brain, helping you innovate and retain information. Conclusion.

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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 13, 2020

6-3-5 Brainwriting is a group-structured brainstorming technique that is a highly collaborative way to generate as many ideas as possible in groups within a short period of time. One of the biggest advantages of brainwriting exercises is their ability to include all participants in the brainstorming and ideation process.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Creative Thinking Can Be Trained. Train Creativity First, Innovation Next . With creativity activated, facilitators like me help others innovate, using advanced frameworks and tools. But without creative belief and culture, advanced tools are likely to fail. It’s not creativity AND innovation.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

9 BAD HABITS TO BREAK FOR BETTER IDEATION Time flies, seasons change, and before you know it, the annual barrage of articles trashing the validity of brainstorming is once again upon us. Why give readers tips on brainstorming only after spending eight paragraphs trying to discredit it? Nine Brainstorming Bad Habits to Break 1.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Check out these pointers: Encourage Creative Thinking : Set up spots and times for everyone to throw ideas into the ring. Provide Resources : Make sure your team has the tools, training, and time to work their magic. Encourage Creative Thinking Make space for new ideas and brainstorming.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

It is vital that teams are trained and comfortable with these tools to maximize productivity. Encouraging Brainstorming Sessions Brainstorming sessions are a cornerstone of innovative team collaboration. Managers can facilitate these sessions by: Setting clear objectives for the brainstorming session.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Empowering their teams with technology and creative tools that guide their brainstorming sessions goes a long way in changing the outcome. In this post, we’ll share some tips and hints centered around innovation and design thinking frameworks to help you deliver an engaging and impactful experience. marathon” = 24-48 hour event.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 1, 2024

Switching on, or switching off, innovation What companies fail to realize is that to innovate means to adopt a new way of thinking, to promote creativity and exploration, to brainstorm things that are likely to fail, to run experiments and test ideas, to gather ideas from customers and markets and to spot emerging opportunities.

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

The 30 minute weekly webinar features demonstrations of various facilitation tools for: strategy, challenge clarification, idea generation (aka brainstorming), problem framing, idea selection, innovation projects, and idea development, etc. Thinking Differently Takes Tools. At some point everybody needs to think differently.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

For this ability to tap into the “dynamics of innovation,” most of any future success in the modern world demands a proactive approach through constant skill development and creative thinking. Highlight scenarios where accelerating understanding led to rapid problem-solving or efficient training and awareness.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 18, 2017

Every brainstorm session you will ever facilitate or attend, like any good movie you will ever see, can be divided into three parts: the beginning, the middle, and the end. THE BEGINNING: This is the "foreplay" stage of brainstorming -- the mood and context setting effort that will either make or break the session.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 22, 2021

IDEA CHAMPIONS: Co-Founder and President an innovation consulting and training company. FREE THE GENIE BRAINSTORMING : Facilitated, online creative thinking sessions for individuals and small teams. Facilitator training program in the works. Train the trainer programs available. Click the link for more.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 20, 2024

Val Vadeboncoeur is a Senior Consultant with Idea Champions , an innovation consulting and training company that has provided innovation and team building services to more than 100 organizations in 11 different countries for the past 34 years.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 29, 2021

Val Vadeboncoeur, Idea Champions' Director of Training, is a highly accomplished brainstorm facilitator, creative thinking catalyst, innovation workshop leader, and co-author of Conducting Genius. Click here to identify the project you'd like to brainstorm with Val. FEE: $95/hr.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Organizations spend a great deal of time and energy investing in training, speakers, communications, systems, frameworks, and assessments. Self-expression is the faucet of creative thinking, and without creative thinking you won’t have much innovation. Believe it or not, you can train people to have more fun.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 26, 2021

These teams will use design thinking and innovation methodology and activities to brainstorm, collaborate, design, and develop solutions to overcome key challenges the end user is facing. This involves providing the time, resources, and support needed to continue innovation long after your brainstorming session or event occurs.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

We are, however, giving it away if you bring us in to train your movers and shakers how to run brainstorm sessions. It's not for sale. We thought about selling it, but that felt like a sell-out. So we're not selling it. Ain't gonna happen.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

Strategic Thinking Perspectives – Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team. Creative Thinking – The Math of Brainstorming and New Ideas. #3 Provide the training, structure, and access to opportunities to best use their knowledge and expertise to drive the innovation strategy.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

We are, however, giving it away if you bring us in to train your movers and shakers how to run brainstorm sessions. It's not for sale. We thought about selling it, but that felt like a sell-out. So we're not selling it. Ain't gonna happen.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

Every brainstorm session you will ever facilitate or attend, like any good movie you will ever see, can be divided into three parts: the beginning, the middle, and the end. THE BEGINNING: This is the "foreplay" stage of brainstorming -- the mood and context setting effort that will either make or break the session.

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Idea Champions

MAY 4, 2016

That's what our Conducting Genius training is all about. And speaking for a business that's fueled on creative thinking, I can think of no better investment of our time." -- Steve Papageorge, Creative Director. The techniques he taught us have also been built into our internal brainstorms.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 22, 2021

Val Vadeboncoeur, Idea Champions' Director of Training, is a highly accomplished brainstorm facilitator, creative thinking catalyst, innovation workshop leader, and co-author of Conducting Genius. Click here to identify the project you'd like to brainstorm with Val. FEE: $95/hr.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 9, 2016

creative thinking), people need to deal with the basics of their business life -- the stuff that is "on their minds.". Schedule longer brainstorming sessions, so people have the time to "stretch out.". Ask each group to identify a "brainstorm facilitator" to keep things on track. Brainstorm facilitation training.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 13, 2015

In the past few years I have noticed a curious trend in the media -- one I can no longer ignore -- and that is the appearance of seriously derisive articles about brainstorming by self-declared pundits and free lance writers. What I'm guessing that brainstorming naysayers really mean is that bad brainstorming sessions don't work.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2020

Thirty years of sparking-innovation in a wide variety of forward thinking organizations from just about every industry on planet Earth. MICRO-LEARNING FOR INNOVATORS: During the past 30 years, Idea Champions has written and spoken a lot about innovation, creative thinking, brainstorming, collaboration, and storytelling.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 1, 2024

Brainstorming Sessions Brainstorming is a classic technique where participants are encouraged to freely share ideas without immediate criticism. The key to successful brainstorming is creating a safe environment where participants feel comfortable expressing unconventional thoughts.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 22, 2016

We are, however, giving it away if you bring us in to train your movers and shakers how to run brainstorm sessions. It's not for sale. We thought about selling it, but that felt like a sell-out. So we're not selling it. Ain't gonna happen.

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