Creative Thinking, Engagement and Product Strategy

Creative Thinking Skills – Protecting Yourself from Creative Thinking Challenges

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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Creative Thinking Activities – 3 Questions to Stop Squandering Diversity

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. – Mike Brown.

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Creative Thinking Skills – 9 Fundamentals to Turn Talk into Strategy

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. – Mike Brown.

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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

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15 Things to Look for in a Business Collaboration

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. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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5 Employee Engagement Ideas When Turnover Is High

BrainZooming

APRIL 22, 2016

I debuted a presentation on “Results – Creating Strategic Impact,” our mini-book on employee engagement ideas to boost an organization’s strategic thinking. The mini-book focuses on the tremendous value when an organization finds ways to strategically solicit employee insights and perspectives to shape its strategic thinking.

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Mastering the Art of Virtual Team Communication: Strategies for Success

Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

For further guidance on managing your virtual team, delve into virtual team management and virtual team project management to ensure your team’s communication remains clear and effective, ultimately driving virtual team productivity. Use engaging visual aids and interactive elements to maintain attention.

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Mastering the Art of Virtual Team Communication: Strategies for Success

Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

For further guidance on managing your virtual team, delve into virtual team management and virtual team project management to ensure your team’s communication remains clear and effective, ultimately driving virtual team productivity. Use engaging visual aids and interactive elements to maintain attention.

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Answering Reader Questions on Strategy and Innovation Challenges

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Here are their comments on opportunities and challenges, along with links to Brainzooming posts addressing the strategy and innovation situations they face: People and Organizational Issues. “Buy in from staff on the new vision and the required change” 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto.

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Abruptly Halting the Cluster F%@k of Business Meetings

BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Strategic Planning – 3 Surprising Ways Online Collaboration Works

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. When discussing a strategic planning or innovation strategy engagement with a client, we use the graphic below to design our recommended approach.

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Leadership Skills – 8 Ways to Fake It Until You Make It

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. 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. So, have you ever faked your way to a successful start?

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Strategic Planning – 10 Keys to Collaborative Strategy

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Strategic Thinking Perspectives – Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team. Creative Thinking Skills – Using Questions and Structure Successfully. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Just Start!

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Community Collaboration Workshops Come in All Sizes

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Last week was diverse in the Brainzooming world, as we were engaged in serving clients across many different aspects of what we do. While we perform a tremendous amount of what we do online via our Zoomference online collaboration platform , engaging people directly always pushes what we do into new areas.

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Strategic Planning Exercises – Two Types of Structure, One Works

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. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Strategic Thinking – Job Descriptions Don’t Define Innovation Potential

BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

I asked them to engage in some strategic thinking about innovation opportunities for the company. They used that as a justification for opting out of strategic thinking. That’s why leaders should be looking for strategic thinking THROUGHOUT their organizations ! – Mike Brown. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun*

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Designing strategic thinking questions leading to engaging conversation among familiar and new participants. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy and then turn it into results.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises – 11 Things Running through a Facilitator’s Head

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

But when we look back and see how we pushed the thinking on the initiative, it’s clear all the challenges were all worth it! – Mike Brown. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas

BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

And if it’s bad, use other strategic thinking exercises to gently bring the ideas back to something smarter and more productive. – Mike Brown. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Strategic Thinking Exercise – 4 Ways to Examine Brand Performance

BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2016

But for current and future clients, don’t be surprised if some form of it starts cropping up in your strategy planning workshops! – Mike Brown. 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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41 Surprising Things about Community Collaboration Done Well

BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

We definitely have the experience and proven processes to bring your community together productively and successfully! – Mike Brown. 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Community to Create Stronger Results. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for ways to create robust and productive collaboration within their communities.

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Strategic Thinking – 16 Ideas for Creating an Entrepreneurial Environment Inside Your Company

BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

Antonia Dean’s strategic thinking ideas made it clear an entrepreneurial environment will not develop inside your company if you are too clingy to what has worked previously yet has grown stale and bloated. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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Strategic Thinking Exercise – An Alternative Vision Statement Approach

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategy and then turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. – Mike Brown.

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Creative Thinking Skills – Protecting Yourself from Creative Thinking Challenges

Creative Thinking Activities – 3 Questions to Stop Squandering Diversity

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15 Things to Look for in a Business Collaboration

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Mastering the Art of Virtual Team Communication: Strategies for Success

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Answering Reader Questions on Strategy and Innovation Challenges

Abruptly Halting the Cluster F%@k of Business Meetings

Strategic Planning – 3 Surprising Ways Online Collaboration Works

Leadership Skills – 8 Ways to Fake It Until You Make It

Strategic Planning – 10 Keys to Collaborative Strategy

Community Collaboration Workshops Come in All Sizes

Strategic Planning Exercises – Two Types of Structure, One Works

Strategic Thinking – Job Descriptions Don’t Define Innovation Potential

11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun*

Strategic Thinking Exercises – 11 Things Running through a Facilitator’s Head

Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas

Strategic Thinking Exercise – 4 Ways to Examine Brand Performance

41 Surprising Things about Community Collaboration Done Well

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Strategic Thinking Exercise – An Alternative Vision Statement Approach

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