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. How do you motivate others – and yourself – to engage in greater creative thinking?

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

I recorded a video for the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) that ties into my presentation at their conference on creative thinking skills and “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation.”. The answer to the question is to change the nature of the conversations you are having when you are working on the business.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

Workplace Diversity – The Why, Who, and How of Strategic Thinking. Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives. Strategic Thinking Perspectives – Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team. Creative Thinking – The Math of Brainstorming and New Ideas. #3 4 Encourages Change.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 4, 2016

What mix of creative diversity will drive implementation? That is a great lesson whenever you are thinking about selecting a diverse group of participants for a strategic or creative thinking workshop. Ultimately, business creativity is about creating strategic impact. Mike Brown. Facing Innovation Barriers?

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Chuck has been an incredible influence on my career, especially as it comes to creative thinking skills. As someone said to me at one point, “You’ve changed your job into Chuck’s job.”. Chuck was the first person I heard deliver an in-depth presentation on creative thinking skills. That was definitely true.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We’re with a client today, delivering a strategic and creative thinking skills for sales workshop. As an outgrowth of the workshop, here is a strategic and creative thinking skills compilation comprised of articles that support the Brainzooming workshop we’re delivering.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 13, 2016

That conversation, and a related one on creative thinking and what is funny got me reflecting on a day in my life and the creative thinking and creative self-talk that goes on behind the scenes. As I started to jot down ideas from the day, it read like a bunch of creative thinking policies and non-policies.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I’ll be presenting on social media super models , followed by a VERY QUICK creative thinking exercises for sales presentation. The creative thinking exercises for sales content is a different take on both familiar and some new creative thinking topics. Can You Change Your Look?

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BrainZooming

MAY 1, 2017

The four characteristics relate to quick decision making, engaging employees, anticipating forward-looking change, and delivering consistent performance. The Brainzooming Results eBook . Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives. Anticipating Forward-Looking Change. Prioritizing with Pain.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Are you facing organizational innovation barriers related to: The fear of change ? We have free Brainzooming eBooks for you to help navigate barriers and boost innovation! Facing Innovation Barriers? Here Is Help! Scarce resources ? Limited innovation perspectives ? An overly-internal focus ? Multiple innovation challenges ?

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

As a result, the pressure for inspiration and creative thinking was always dependent on me. What did I need to do to trigger creative thinking? At some point, God provided the grace to realize my creative inspiration was from outside, not inside. God provides all the needed creative inspiration.

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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

MARCH 14, 2017

We also have quite a bit on fun strategy planning, including one of our most popular new eBooks, 11 Fun Ideas for Strategic Planning. The question got me thinking about specific strategic planning questions we use to liven up strategic thinking. This is the core creative thinking question for our Shrimp exercise.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 17, 2017

I’m a great client because of all the creative thinking background and experience communicating with creative people. I’m horrible because I have just enough creative chops to do many things myself, which I’m not reluctant to do if a project isn’t quite working. That’s my creative advice. Do with it what you will.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 23, 2016

What if your fear of being wrong is so great that you can’t even start implementing creative ideas that are just for you for fear you’ll goof something up? Typically, the creative thinking exercises we teach and use are a huge source of hope to get past fears about self-judged “bad” ideas. Is there hope? Sure, there is hope.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 12, 2016

I also push my creative thinking skills and look through newspaper or magazine articles to inspire ideas. 15 Creative Thinking Skills to Turn Junk Ideas into Treasures. Within the story, there were fifteen creative thinking skills demonstrating how KI Nassauer turns “junk ideas” into treasures with potential.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2017

Adrian has incredible creative thinking skills. How was I so sure about his creative thinking skills ? He applied his creative thinking skills and came up with a solution that was pure extreme creativity. Are you facing organizational innovation barriers related to: The fear of change ?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 8, 2017

What’s the most exciting thing in your view as you look ahead to all the technological changes promised for the years ahead? What’s the scariest thing in your view as you look ahead to all the technological changes promised for the years ahead? What daily task in your work life would you want a robot to take over first?

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 11, 2015

We haven’t tackled that topic previously, so the first creative thinking move was sketching out a matrix comparing the degree someone is able to express a personal creative version versus how much they are getting paid for it. 5 Ideas for How to Make Money from Your Passion and Creativity.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Over time and hundreds of strategy development workshops, we changed all that. And importantly, when we developed a new strategy development exercise , we actively used creative thinking techniques to help them very naturally think about typical strategy issues in very different ways. Yes, strategic planning can be fun.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

Since neither CPR extreme is good, the right frequency for getting told to pull back creative ideas is somewhere between zero and 100%. Where the right place is depends on a couple of things: How is your CPR changing over time? If so, that could suggest an environmental problem that’s killing big creativity.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

This new reader was seeking information on managing strategy and innovation inside an organization described as fearing change. Strategic Thinking Perspectives – Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team. Why Change Is Hard – 3 Strategic Thinking Ideas for Making Change Easy.

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BrainZooming

MAY 30, 2017

Instead, give your team creative thinking questions appropriately sized to the innovation you are seeking. This FREE eBook features thirteen question-based exercises to foster strategic conversations for disrupting. The easy answer is to say you are looking for big ideas. Who doesn’t love big ideas? Marketing strategies.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2017

The reason is while it is important for organizations, participants hardly ever see the connection between participation and positive changes for brands and customers. That is why wrapping strategy meetings in creative thinking exercises and the appropriate amount of fun and diversion is optimum. I know I do.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2017

The message will once again be similar: carrying out your mission when times are changing in ways you have not previously experienced. We share suggestions on: Using your organization’s core purpose to shape decisions when things are changing. 25 Infinitely Renewable Things in Uncertain Times.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 2, 2016

Do you suppose it is fear of change? We were leading a creative thinking workshop for a subsidiary of a German-owned, privately-held company. If your organization is routinely coming up against fears of change that slow (or undermine) innovation, the new Brainzooming eBook is for you.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2016

Additionally, she’s been editing our eBooks this year. This free Brainzooming innovation eBook identifies seven typical business innovation fears. We tackle: Whether facts or emotional appeals are ideal to challenge fear of innovation-driven change. Want to Meet IRL in Your Town?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 9, 2017

Change is inconvenient for everyone. Change is not only possible; it’s inescapable. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and boost your creative thinking skills!

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

And by the way, here are the most frequently referenced compilations: Strategic Thinking Exercises – More than 200 Strategic Planning Questions. Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy. Change Management Strategy – 35 Articles for Your Change Agent Role.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

If you find yourself beset by creative boredom, what can you do? You can: Try a new creative perspective on the situation. Start changing the creative variables at your disposal. Invite a kid to come up with creative ideas. Pay attention to what people unfamiliar with the situation think is cool.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

We routinely ask those of you downloading Brainzooming strategy and innovation eBooks to share – if you are willing – the opportunities and challenges you are facing at the time. “Buy in from staff on the new vision and the required change” 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Someone downloading the new 11 Ideas for Fun Strategic Planning eBook when we released it stated his biggest strategy challenge as coming up with fresh ways to do the same strategic planning exercises with the same executives every year. Change just one element of an exercise as an experiment in improving your process and adding variety.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 21, 2017

A former co-worker once left me a message after a job change, saying she was going through “withdrawal pains” from talking regularly. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Telling someone you have not talked to for a long time that you miss them.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Most of the time we have to go well beyond what hotels consider standard ways groups will use their meeting rooms when we’re trying to create an effective space for a Brainzooming creative thinking workshop. Last Minute Changes to Boost Collaboration. Related posts Change the Room Around!

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

Here’s the story of how a request from a big supporter, then and still, instigated a major change in the Brainzooming methodology. After that, whenever we designed a strategic planning workshop, we made deliberate design decisions on the right balance of creative thinking and focused plan building.

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BrainZooming

MAY 24, 2017

“Much of what I dealt with involved information that an organization does not want disclosed because it changes the business and competitive environments, typically for the worse. “This happens with branding changes. We share suggestions on: Using your organization’s core purpose to shape decisions when things are changing.

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BrainZooming

MAY 11, 2016

Prioritizing with Change and Implementation. These ideas don’t even begin to address the innovation value of strategic thinking exercises and creative structures to spur innovation. Download this free, concise eBook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Constraining the Possibility of Poor Results.

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