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

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 5 Pursues Smart Possibilities.

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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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Groups Creativity eBook Conference 91

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

If you’re in charge of a company or a significant business unit or department, are you actively managing gender diversity ? We have free Brainzooming eBooks for you to help navigate barriers and boost innovation! And once they did, the men in the group jumped in to these powerful conversations. These questions are real.

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BrainZooming

MAY 1, 2017

The Brainzooming Results eBook . Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives. 9 Strategic Thinking Questions – Helping Teams Execute Strategy. 5 Questions to Move Creative Thinking into Action. Strategic Thinking Exercise – Who Can You Trust? Prioritizing with Pain.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2017

I met Adrian Martinez at an internal management meeting for our client, LeSaint Logistics. Adrian has incredible creative thinking skills. How was I so sure about his creative thinking skills ? He is a manager with LeSaint, and he faced a challenge. Well, get a load of this example! What would you do?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 8, 2017

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. What’s Your Implementation Strategy for Uncertain Times? Things aren’t getting saner and more calm.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

It was about fully-formed answers with no real support to help business and marketing managers do the strategic thinking to develop their strategies. We sped up the process by assembling a multi-functional team that together had many more great ideas than a single marketing manager. Yes, strategic planning can be fun.

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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

That is why wrapping strategy meetings in creative thinking exercises and the appropriate amount of fun and diversion is optimum. If you’re intrigued by the possibilities, download our FREE eBook, “11 Fun Ideas for Strategic Planning.” 80 Fun Strategic Planning Activities and Ideas! ” Enjoy this article?

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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. Creative Thinking Exercises – Would you like S, M, L, or XL Creative Ideas? That was the case recently, as we reviewed the article selections of one such executive.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2017

Chuck Dymer and I presented to a group of logistics managers in Chicago last week. 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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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The Brainzooming blog wasn’t originally focused on project management techniques. Implementing innovation in organizations reluctant to embrace the changes needed to survive and grow requires what we’ve come to call “strategic project management.” Project Management Techniques for Starting Strongly.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Creative Love. Creative Thinking – 6 Challenges Before Loving Your New Idea Too Much. Managing Clients Who Love Their Creative Ideas. People can love their own thinking too much. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. We hope you love it! Give it some time to grow into it.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 28, 2017

In place of only recycling ideas, try these nine strategic thinking questions and creative thinking paths. The formula is to ask a specific question, LISTEN for responses from others, and follow a related creating thinking direction to generate ideas more quickly: Ask: What’s been tried before?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

A marketing manager is generally the expert on a particular product line. Creative thinking exercises generate ideas, not facts. While creative thinking exercises help generate new ideas, it became clear that creativity couldn’t help a salesperson without key facts (e.g.,

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

I’ll be honest: my expectations were high for this innovation-focused conference , and I was doing my best to manage them. This Brainzooming eBook will help identify additional possibilities for people, funding, and resources to jump start your innovation strategy. On the one hand, it sounded amazing.

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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. What to Blog About?

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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. Creative Thinking Skills – 5 People Vital to Critical Thinking, Literally. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Identifying Left Field Competitors.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

After several cycles, it became apparent our marketing managers couldn’t translate the ideas into effective plans. 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. Afterward, they had the strategic plan!

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Exercises Strategic Thinking eBook Creativity 67

BrainZooming

MARCH 10, 2016

Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and ideas! Dr. Ray Guarendi on Following a Conversation 1 Simple Strategy for Improving Time Management.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 12, 2017

Other times it means giving old ideas a new day and putting solid tactics and strategic project management planning behind them to move them from ideas to implementation. This lets them get the ideas out there for others to consider so they can focus on other creative thinking. Scarce resources ? An overly-internal focus ?

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BrainZooming

MAY 24, 2017

In these cases, try to offer guidance or manage priorities to foster smart business decisions without disclosing confidential knowledge. Provide context to others so they think about their activities in a bigger or slightly different way that better fits a future outcome. What’s Your Implementation Strategy for Uncertain Times?

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 28, 2015

The collection of 50 motivational quotes on what good leadership truly means will not only help you be a better leader, but a better coworker, mentor, manager, employee, and even a better person.”. Managing the Noise of Social Media: Infographic. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Etcetera, Etcetera.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 30, 2017

Beyond making investments and process changes to increase agility, are there other opportunities to cost-effectively manage demand? In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! , How can you develop a super-agile process that disrupts other industry players’ competitive advantages? Identifying Process Changes for Agile Strategy.

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