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3 Conditions for Explosive Creative Thinking Skills

BrainZooming

JUNE 19, 2017

The tall structures store grain for processing, and you learn as a kid that they can be both combustible and explosive. 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. Creativity Goes Boom!

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Struggling to Be Creative? Think of Creativity as Exploring an Amusement Park

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Struggling to be creative? Think about reigniting your creativity as a day at an amusement park. All the ways you have been creative up until now are the amusement park rides. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Related posts Creative Thinking Right Now?

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Creative Thinking Skills – 5 Quick Tips on Extreme Creativity

BrainZooming

JUNE 6, 2017

It is all part of not ASKING for big ideas ; we use big questions that enhance peoples’ natural creative thinking skills. Based on our experience using extreme creativity questions, they DO tend to yield bigger ideas. 5 Quick Tips on Extreme Creativity and Creative Thinking Skills. Here are five of them: 1.

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Creative Thinking Exercises – 2 Ways to Create Innovation Workshop Inspiration

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

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

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5 Questions to Move Creative Thinking into Action

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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Creative Thinking Exercise – Rethinking Shrimp

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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Creative Diversity – What group will drive implementation success?

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 4, 2016

He said they learned over time about how to purposefully manage creative diversity most effectively. Over time, however, they discovered that while they wanted participants with creative diversity, it was important to include individuals from groups that would actually return to the business and work together to solve problems.

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Creative Thinking Skills for Sales – A Workshop Approach

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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Creative Thinking Exercises for Sales – Easy as ABC

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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1 Startling Way Creative Thinking Exercises Constrain New Ideas

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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Creative Thinking Skills – A Simple Way to Boost Creativity

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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Creative Thinking – My Vital Source of Creative Inspiration

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. What ideas did I need to imagine?

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Innovation Strategy – 40 Articles on Fostering an Innovative Workplace Culture

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 Scarce resources ?

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Creative Thinking – 31 Excuses Why a Creative Outlet Isn’t Working

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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Creative Thinking Skills – 10 Ideas for Stimulating Extreme Team Creativity

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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8 Pieces of Creative Advice from a Great and Horrible Client

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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5 Ideas When an Uber-Positive Boss Crushes Creative Thinking

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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Creative Thinking – Music Videos with Stories

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. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help you generate extreme creativity and ideas! The first is seasonal.

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Creative Thinking – We All Have Our “Pizza Meeting” Weak Spots

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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Team Collaboration – 14 Benefits from Pre-Meeting Outreach

BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

Learning what participants in an upcoming big meeting know, think, and believe before they come together in a large group is one tactic to strengthen team collaboration. Gain a sense of what people already think. Learn what insights the participants already have and don’t have.

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Creative Thinking Skills – 12 Things Working and 6 Not Working in Odd Times

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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Does Your Team’s Creative Leadership Need a Boost? Here’s the Answer!

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 3, 2018

And the best strategy to boost their creative leadership talents is to get copies of Idea Magnets: 7 Strategies for Attracting and Cultivating Creative Business Leaders for all your team members. This Brainzooming book demonstrates the value of stronger creativity. A Creative Leadership Workshop Maximizes the Innovation Impact.

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Public Speaking Skills: My Worst Presentation Ever

BrainZooming

JULY 31, 2017

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! If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog e mail updates.

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Creative Ideas – Are too many bold ideas killing your creativity?

BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

My friend explained that over a period of years, her bosses shot down every dynamic possibility she proposed as a creative marketing idea. The cumulative impact is she no longer offers big creative ideas because there isn’t any point. She said she didn’t think about developing creative ideas like this at all.

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Creative Thinking – 5 Ideas for How to Make Money from Your Passion

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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A Gen Xer Speaks to the Multi-generational Workforce

BrainZooming

JUNE 9, 2017

So please, please, please: learn how to use technology, already. Stop finding clever ways to avoid doing tech-related things because you don’t want people to think you’re too old. Avoid the mental calisthenics: admit what you don’t know, and then learn what you should know. You have the relationships.

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Strategic Thinking Skills – 5 Keys to Leading Groups to Action

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! , You will learn effective, proven ways to move your implementation plan forward with greater speed and success. You’ll learn ways to help your team: Move forward even amid uncertainty. Start Implementing Faster and Better! Focusing on important activities leading to results.

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25 Infinitely Renewable Things in Uncertain Times

BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2017

It’s all about getting kids outside to experience nature, interact, and learn. The Brainzooming eBook 4 Strategies for Implementing in Uncertain Times will help you examine your strategy foundation, insights, profitability drivers, and decision making processes when few things ahead are clear.

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New Business Collaboration Opportunities through Meeting Online Friends IRL

BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2016

Additionally, she’s been editing our eBooks this year. Every time I’ve done this, it has led to learning more about online friends and about myself. This free Brainzooming innovation eBook identifies seven typical business innovation fears. Want to Meet IRL in Your Town?

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The EPIC International Summit: Does What it Says on the Tin

BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

Even cynical types were openly surprised at the insights and learnings. It was what I’d imagined, as a child, that college would be like: a big group of friendly people who are genuinely excited about learning and doing good in the world. It all felt incredibly thoughtful, which is a surprising way to describe a conference.

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What and Who Do You Love, and How? 11 Takes on Love

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Creative Love. Creative Thinking – 6 Challenges Before Loving Your New Idea Too Much. Managing Clients Who Love Their Creative Ideas. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and ideas! It’s Valentine’s Day. We hope you love it!

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Strategic Thinking Workshop Success – Beware Too Much Creativity

BrainZooming

APRIL 15, 2016

Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and ideas! Contact us at info@brainzooming.com or call us at 816-509-5320 to learn how we can deliver these benefits for you. Creative Thinking Questions – My Favorite Creative Thinking Question So Far.

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How to Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

We’re developing a workshop on creative thinking techniques for a B2B salesforce in a few weeks. Reviewing the attendees’ pre-workshop surveys on their expectations, personal learning objectives, and needs for creative thinking development, they mentioned “thinking outside the box” and “how to get out of my comfort zone” frequently.

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Answering Reader Questions on Strategy and Innovation Challenges

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. Creative Thinking Skills – 5 People Vital to Critical Thinking, Literally. In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! ,

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7 Free Gifts that People Won’t Return or Forget by Late January

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 21, 2017

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! If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog e mail updates.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises – Why Do We Give Away So Much for Free?

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

We, however, routinely share how we do things via our methodology, tools, and learnings from Brainzooming strategic thinking workshops. Why Do We Give Away So Many Strategic Thinking Exercises? Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy. What to Blog About?

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5 Keys to Streamlining Strategic Planning

BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

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. Executives that SHOULD know how to develop and write a strategic plan struggled.

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Creative Quickies – How are you supporting creativity and new ideas?

BrainZooming

JULY 13, 2016

Leaders Supporting Creativity and New Ideas. Creative Thinking – 7 Keys to How “Idea Magnets” Boost Creativity. Creative Thinking Skills: 6 Tips for Sharing and Receiving Creative Ideas. Unleash Creative Possibilities with Bob Thacker. Extreme Creativity – When Do You Trust a Creative Genius?

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Creative Boredom – 5 Ways to Get Your Creativity Going Again

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help you generate extreme creativity and ideas! Email us at info@brainzooming.com or call us at 816-509-5320 to learn how we can deliver these benefits for you.

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Strategic Planning Workshop Ideas – The Brainzooming Process Is 10 Years Old!

BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

Since we were learning as we went, some sessions worked better than others. 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. We’d do these sessions as part of strategic planning.

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Business Strategy – How to Handle Confidential Information

BrainZooming

MAY 24, 2017

While we undoubtedly covered it in class, I learned the ins and outs of confidential information on the job. However, waiting to tell employees until after the market has learned the information leaves employees ill-equipped to support the change. When I worked on the consulting side, that was largely client information.

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4 Tips to Efficiently Boost Creativity in the Workplace

BrainZooming

MARCH 10, 2016

Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and ideas! Contact us at info@brainzooming.com or call us at 816-509-5320 to learn how we can deliver these benefits for you. Dr. Ray Guarendi on Following a Conversation 1 Simple Strategy for Improving Time Management.

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Strategic Conversations – 12 Things to Listen For

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Need help guiding your team’s creative thinking for innovative product ideas? With the right combination of perspectives from outside your organization and productive strategic thinking exercises, you can ideate, prioritize, and develop your best innovative growth ideas.

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Ten Years Now and Mike Brown Has a Blog

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

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! If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming email updates.

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Creative Thinking Exercise – Rethinking Shrimp

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1 Startling Way Creative Thinking Exercises Constrain New Ideas

Creative Thinking Skills – A Simple Way to Boost Creativity

Creative Thinking – My Vital Source of Creative Inspiration

Innovation Strategy – 40 Articles on Fostering an Innovative Workplace Culture

Creative Thinking – 31 Excuses Why a Creative Outlet Isn’t Working

Creative Thinking Skills – 10 Ideas for Stimulating Extreme Team Creativity

8 Pieces of Creative Advice from a Great and Horrible Client

5 Ideas When an Uber-Positive Boss Crushes Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking – Music Videos with Stories

Creative Thinking – We All Have Our “Pizza Meeting” Weak Spots

Team Collaboration – 14 Benefits from Pre-Meeting Outreach

Creative Thinking Skills – 12 Things Working and 6 Not Working in Odd Times

Does Your Team’s Creative Leadership Need a Boost? Here’s the Answer!

Public Speaking Skills: My Worst Presentation Ever

Creative Ideas – Are too many bold ideas killing your creativity?

Creative Thinking – 5 Ideas for How to Make Money from Your Passion

A Gen Xer Speaks to the Multi-generational Workforce

Strategic Thinking Skills – 5 Keys to Leading Groups to Action

25 Infinitely Renewable Things in Uncertain Times

New Business Collaboration Opportunities through Meeting Online Friends IRL

The EPIC International Summit: Does What it Says on the Tin

What and Who Do You Love, and How? 11 Takes on Love

Strategic Thinking Workshop Success – Beware Too Much Creativity

How to Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone

Answering Reader Questions on Strategy and Innovation Challenges

7 Free Gifts that People Won’t Return or Forget by Late January

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5 Keys to Streamlining Strategic Planning

Creative Quickies – How are you supporting creativity and new ideas?

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