BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

The team leader asked, “How is it possible to listen to us talk and turn it into a strategy so quickly?”. 9 Creative Thinking Skills to Turn Talk into Strategy. Incorporate a bigness and boldness into the language you use to describe the strategy in order to stretch the organization.

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Creative Thinking Creativity Strategy Strategy 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We’re big proponents of the value of bringing together a diverse group of people with varied creative thinking skills for strategic planning workshops within organizations and communities. Sometimes they proceed an in-person strategy planning meeting, but not always. 3 Ways Online Collaboration Works to Deliver Big Benefits.

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Collaboration Creative Thinking Exercises Groups 40

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Success factors in strategic planning and creating collaborative strategy were the central topics we tackled on an edition of Smart Companies Radio, hosted by Kelly Scanlon, the owner of Thinking Bigger Business Media, Inc., 10 Keys to Collaborative Strategy and Strategic Planning. Kelly Scanlon Show. Just Start!

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Collaboration Strategy Strategy Strategic Thinking 40

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The week included: Large scale community collaboration workshops – Nearly eighty students from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale gathered Monday night and a comparable number of Carbondale, IL residents assembled on Tuesday for community collaboration workshops to imagine the community’s future with Gigabit Internet capabilities.

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Collaboration Strategic Thinking Groups Engagement 40

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

In nearly every Brainzooming community collaboration workshop, we conclude with a Plus-Minus-Interesting-Recommendation-Question exercise (a PMIRQ for short). 41 Surprising Things about Community Collaboration Done Well. New People Coming Together Collaboratively and Effectively. Small unknown group collaboration”.

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Collaboration Exercises Strategic Thinking Brainstorming 40

BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

You know, this week doesn’t have to be as unproductive as last week, what with business meetings going nowhere along with wasting time, positive energy, and any hope of creativity. The thing is, there’s a different way to structure business meetings to help a group come together and collaborate in an innovative, productive way.

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Meeting Collaboration Creative Thinking Tips 40

BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

Since strategy planning is an infrequent activity, it is difficult for executives to master it. We learned that if we asked executives a series of questions leading to the information needed to complete a strategy plan, they became productive strategy planners. Creative thinking exercises generate ideas, not facts.

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Exercises Strategy Strategy Collaboration 65

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

You can provide people with strategic thinking exercises, creative thinking tools, strategy questions, and ways to collaborate with one another, using structure to help imagine better strategies. This means there is no opportunity for productive collaboration to devise the plan.

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Exercises Strategic Thinking Collaboration Strategy 40

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Leadership 40

Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Creative Thinking Meeting 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

And the asterisk on fun acknowledges we’re stretching the definition of fun to cover things nerdy strategic planners think are fun such as “mental stimulation,” “highly collaborative groups,” and “people that want to be involved in strategic planning the next time it happens.”. 11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun*.

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Exercises Strategic Thinking Collaboration Groups 40

BrainZooming

APRIL 22, 2016

This Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons leaders can use to boost collaboration, meaningful strategic conversations, and results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Engagement 40

Engagement Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Exercises 40

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Groups Strategy 40

BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

This Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons leaders can use to boost collaboration, meaningful strategic conversations, and results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Brainstorming 40

BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

This Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons leaders can use to boost collaboration, meaningful strategic conversations, and results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Innovation Engagement Creative Thinking 40

BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2016

Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible. In short they need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Creativity Engagement 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

This strategic thinking exercise allows a large group (perhaps hundreds of online participants) to provide targeted input on an organization’s future direction. We turn that input into a collaborative vision statement. Pushing Back on a Strategic Thinking Exercise. So we pushed back.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Groups 40

BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

This Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons leaders can use to boost collaboration, meaningful strategic conversations, and results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Company Entrepreneurship 40