BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2019

When it comes to focus and preparation exercises, it’s a numbers game. How about Creative Thinking Questions? To prepare for the in-person planning, Tara forwarded creative thinking questions that looked out from today to more than a decade into the future. 8 Creative Thinking Questions to Focus Your Year.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 1, 2018

Sometimes, we get to design a creative thinking exercise that seems like so much fun during its development that it causes me to continually smile and giggle. Interested in disrupting thinking in your organization to boost innovation? Click below and download the FREE Disrupting Thinking eBook.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 19, 2017

3 Conditions for Explosive Creative Thinking Skills. Reflecting on grain elevators led me to consider explosive creative thinking skills , and the parallels between the two. Achieve intensity by constraining time and creating high expectations for the number of ideas a creative group should imagine.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Chuck is the owner of Brilliance Activator , which helps leaders uncork the creative genius of their teams to improve products and processes, delight customers, and grow profits. Why Specificity Makes or Breaks a Creative Thinking Workshop by Chuck Dymer. It’s lunchtime and a colleague asks you what you’d like to eat.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

They requested a follow-up innovation workshop to inspire bigger, further out thinking. We brought two specific inspirations to the innovation workshop: extreme and analogy-based creative thinking exercises. A Remedy from our eBook, 321 GO!

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BrainZooming

MARCH 22, 2017

Short story: If you want big ideas, ask the big questions, which is what extreme creativity is all about ! Keeping with the eight theme, here are eight new questions from the Brainzooming R&D Lab to boost your creative thinking skills. Creative Thinking Skills and Breakthrough Ideas. Aspirations.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

Improves Innovation and Adaptability Encourages creative thinking to respond to market shifts. Monitor and Update Scenarios Regularly Scenario planning is an ongoing process , not a one-time exercise. Develops Multiple Future Scenarios Explores a range of plausible futures to test strategic options.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 7, 2016

We frequently facilitate a strategic thinking exercise that uses a character outside a situation as the perspective. There’s no guarantee this strategic thinking exercise works in every situation. After you identify the “characters” in a particular situation, completely shift their roles. Mike Brown.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 7, 2021

There are many different exercises that people use for innovation, but very few of them are as effective as mind mapping. Vague Descriptions Boost Creativity: By keeping associations vague, it allows people to bring their own perspective to the mind map and gets their creative juices flowing. Enables Tiered Thinking.

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Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Exercise can be easily adapted to different needs of various groups. Tool types Exercise Tool topics Organisational Management Personal Development Project Management. Ask the Frog! Aim (what for?) To gather ideas and different perspectives on some question or problem. Group (whom for?) Material needed Envelope for each participant.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

As an example, I wrote some time back about the “Shrimp” creative thinking exercise we included during a creative thinking workshop for a regulated financial services company. Rethinking the “Shrimp” Creative Thinking Exercise.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2017

Short Story: Look for specifics and things that people can actually do or perform to move creative thinking into action. How do you move from creative thinking into action? Two of the client’s senior staff members said this was a question they expected us to answer during the strategic thinking workshop.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We have released a host of eBooks on strategic planning exercises and ideas to increase collaboration, creative thinking, alignment, and successful implementation. This is our biggest collection ever of strategic thinking questions to move strategy planning ahead in finding the best strategic direction.

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 18, 2024

It will lead you to creative ideas. Set Aside Time for Creativity: Our brains are cluttered with pressing tasks. Dedicate specific time in your schedule for day dreaming, creative thinking and imagination. Harness the Random: Deliberately introduce random ideas into your thinking. Take exercise.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 22, 2016

Delivering a creative thinking workshop , I was eavesdropping on conversations at five tables full of attendees. One group was starting to use one of our creative thinking exercises. They should inspire, not limit thinking. They should inspire, not limit thinking.

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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. Force Yourself to Self-Evaluate.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 23, 2016

What if you are a person that freezes up when you think you need to come up with or implement a creative idea ? 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? Is there hope? Sure, there is hope.

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Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Find the most creative people at work and ask for their ideas. Exercise during your lunch break. Think of five other ways to define your challenge. Block off time on your calendar for creative thinking. Choose to be more creative. Recall a time in your life when you were very creative. Have more fun.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 17, 2017

Short Story: When it comes to creativity, start with and return to the underlying strategy ; that’s the most important piece of creative advice I have to offer. I’ve been trying to let go of some creative reins on the Brainzooming brand. 8 Pieces of Creative Advice from a Great and Horrible Client.

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Innovation in Practice

APRIL 6, 2021

Guess who’s more creative – men or women? . Well, neither is more creative than the other because both are equally creative. They just have different roles in terms of their creative output. At the end of the day, men and women can both knock it out of the park when it comes to creative ideas. .

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

Sometimes creative thinking challenges come from inside your own head. In many organizations, however, substantial creative thinking challenges come from leaders and cultures that may say they want new thinking, but seem to do everything they can to scuttle creativity. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

From a day-to-day perspective in the corporate world, we didn’t necessarily use objective metrics about creative ideas. After talking with a friend, I think the percent of time you are told to pull back your creative ideas because they are too big and bold may be a good way to assess how your creativity is faring in an organization.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

That realization was a breakthrough in how we would create a strategy development exercise back when I ran strategic planning for a Fortune 500 corporation. To them, a strategy development exercise involved PowerPoint slides with boxes and grids to complete. The Secret to Making a Strategy Development Exercise Faster and Easier.

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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.”. A big part of improving your creative thinking does not necessarily mean setting aside time to have offsite meetings and generate ideas.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2018

I explained to them that no matter who we bring into an in-person Brainzooming workshop, we design the questions and exercises so that EVERYONE will be successful participating. It’s like the secret to creative success for everyone ! Extreme Creativity. Brainzooming as the blues scale of strategy, innovation, and branding?

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Stronger creative leadership to identify productive tactics, make better (and faster) decisions, and successfully implement with a major impact. The Answer to Boosting Creative Leadership within Your Team! This Brainzooming book demonstrates the value of stronger creativity. Your Go-To Resource for High-Impact Creative Thinking!

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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. ” strategic thinking exercise as a flexible tool suitable for many situations.

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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. How to Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone.

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BrainZooming

JULY 18, 2016

We were on a call with an extended creative team generating ideas for client videos. During breaks, I found myself jotting down examples of important creative thinking skills the team was exhibiting. 7 Important Creative Thinking Skills. It can open the way to getting others to support your thinking, as well.

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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

MAY 3, 2016

We were working with a client and sharing the value of our extreme creativity strategic exercises to boost creative thinking skills. Another reason to embrace extreme creativity questions is they provide a more beautiful, amazing mental landscape to inspire creative thinking skills.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 27, 2018

So, if you are on your own and need help to generate a lot of innovative ideas in a hurry , it’s a simple creative thinking formula: A magazine with lots of pictures and headlines +. You can employ the strategic thinking exercises in Accelerate to : Facilitate a collaborative approach to identifying innovation resources.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Based on all The Brainzooming Group experience in helping clients generate new ideas and innovative strategies, diversity is vital to successful creative thinking activities. For example, at one of our client creative thinking workshops there wasn’t any of diversity to spare.

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BrainZooming

MAY 4, 2016

Ever felt as if your main creative outlet just isn’t working anymore ? I’m WAY off my creative thinking game when it comes to putting pen to paper and fingers to keyboard. I have some ideas why this is the case, and have been trying to document the reasons my go-to creative outlet isn’t working right now.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 8, 2016

Last week, we presented a creative and strategic thinking workshop for a Brainzooming reader who leads the national sales division of a global industrial manufacturer. We integrated the Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop into their annual sales meeting. 13 Unexpected Benefits of a Strategic Thinking Workshop.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 12, 2024

But generating impactful ideas often requires more than just inspirationit demands the right methods and tools to unlock creative potential. An idea generator provides a structured approach to spark fresh thinking, tackle challenges, and transform abstract concepts into tangible outcomes. What Is an Idea Generator?

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Idea Drop

JULY 20, 2017

For most businesses, every day is an exercise in problem-solving. There are two distinct (though complementary) ways to work through a problem and develop a solution: we might label them ‘creative thinking’ and ‘strategic thinking’. Creative thinking focuses on capturing the unusual, unique and unchartered.

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