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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Innovation in Practice

APRIL 11, 2021

How to be more creative in your relationships. Resources from this episode: Downloadable scorecard to rate your idea. Just fill in your information below to download it. If you enjoyed this episode, we’ve created a PDF that has all of the key information for you from the episode.

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Innovation in Practice

JANUARY 10, 2021

In this episode, I’m teaching two techniques to help improve creative thinking long-term as well as some practical tips to make sure you’re on your way to mastery. In this episode you’ll hear: Scientific study on creativity . How to develop your creative thinking through pattern spotting .

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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 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. Today is the day to download your copy of 321 GO! A Remedy from our eBook, 321 GO!

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Innovation in Practice

JUNE 14, 2020

How does the brain produce these creative ideas? What holds people back from being creative? Constraints are not a barrier to creativity, fixedness is! Resources from this episode: Downloadable scorecard to rate your idea. The 3 types of fixedness.

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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. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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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 +. FREE Download: 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy. Sticky notes +. A few minutes =.

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Innovation in Practice

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

How different drugs affect divergent or convergent thinking. . Downloadable scorecard to rate your idea. The post Episode 079: Is There a Magic Pill For Creative Thinking? Resources from this episode: Nick Skillicorn’s blog: Idea to Value. appeared first on Drew Boyd.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Sometimes you think you know best, only to find later that you have absolutely NO clue. 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.

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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. How are you doing on these 7 creative thinking skills?

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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

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. You can download your copies by clicking on the titles or the covers of the eBooks below. Results – Creating Strategic Impact (Download).

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

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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. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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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. Mike Brown.

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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

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. When this takes happens, creative thinking exercises becomes just that many more boxes to shut down ideas that are off the beaten path.

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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. Chuck was the first person I heard deliver an in-depth presentation on creative thinking skills. Creative Thinking Skills and Place with Chuck Dymer. That was definitely true. Mike Brown.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Today’s creative thinking post is all about music. That’s why these music videos are the centerpiece of today’s creative thinking post. Among the first songs I downloaded on iTunes when my wife bought me my first iPad MANY years ago, Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor was among the first.

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Innovation in Practice

APRIL 25, 2021

Resources from this episode: Downloadable scorecard to rate your idea. “If Just fill in your information below to download it. If You Need Help, Just Ask”: Underestimating Compliance with Direct Requests for Help by Francis J. Flynn and Vanessa Lake.

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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. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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Innovation in Practice

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

The barriers to creative output: 3 types of fixedness. Resources from this episode: Downloadable scorecard to rate your idea. Why it’s good. The Dunker Candle Experiment. The 5 SIT techniques to break fixedness.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

We’ve certainly covered the heck out of how bad bosses , toxic cultures , and negative comments can crush creative thinking and creativity. What you might not consider, however, is how an uber-positive boss that is TOO OVER THE TOP when communicating how great early stage ideas are ALSO CRUSHES creative thinking.

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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

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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IdeaScale

MAY 16, 2018

If you think about it, universities and educational institutions are almost always breeding grounds for new ideas, prototypes, and creative thinking. To learn more about innovation in the education sector, download our complimentary infographic on the subject.

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Innovation in Practice

MARCH 28, 2021

Downloadable scorecard to rate your idea. Just fill in your information below to download it. Resources from this episode: Study: Role Expectations as Constraints to Innovation. If you enjoyed this episode, we’ve created a PDF that has all of the key information for you from the episode.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 19, 2015

What’s a “pizza meeting,” and what does it have to do with creative thinking? Back in the Fortune 500 days, we facilitated so many strategic planning workshop sessions we gave up renting creativity-oriented offsite locations. Yup, that’s a dirty little secret of creative thinking. What are my pizza meetings?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

9 Creative Thinking Skills to Turn Talk into Strategy. The team leader’s question prompted this list of 9 creative thinking skills that help turn strategic conversations (or even conversations that seem like talking without any particular strategic focus) into something that feels like strategy.

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Leapfrogging

OCTOBER 8, 2021

White Space Innovation is all about identifying and articulating unmet needs and opening up entirely new market opportunities outside of existing markets and business models through creative thinking and innovation. . You can access the tool freely as a download here.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 29, 2016

Creative Thinking Skills – Some Working, Some Not Working. Amid the odd times, it’s no surprise my creative thinking skills have varied widely the past few months. It’s also fair to share what creative thinking skills HAVEN’T been working lately: Trying to write on the iPad.

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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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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. If you’d like to skip ahead, you can download the entire chapter today. Your team, unit, division, and even enterprise should know what is most important to your customers. Begin with the End .

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 30, 2016

There may be more, but thinking back on business collaborations from the past few years, those items characterize the decision making and expected impacts of our varied collaborations. FREE Download: “Results!!! – Mike Brown. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results.

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