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

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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. 14 Team Collaboration Benefits from Pre-Meeting Outreach. Gaining these team collaboration insights can come through various pre-meeting outreach formats.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 19, 2015

“I know you have a certain way you set up for your pizza meeting. But your pizza meetings COULD BE DIFFERENT.”. What’s a “pizza meeting,” and what does it have to do with creative thinking? We’d make creative thinking happen wherever we could find a large enough meeting room at one of our headquarters locations.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 19, 2022

Many innovation tools and ways of thinking are scalable to a specific need and are reasonably user friendly, and often generate a tremendous amount of value for a small investment. Service Excellence Let me start with the idea of service excellence.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In my opinion, it needs to be based on the thinking around the shift from products to solutions, from transactions to building far more value-adding ongoing relationships, from a supplier of product services into highly valued network partnerships, exploring innovation across all options. A constant redesign to meet the circumstances.

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Innovation in Practice

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Imagine if you went to a meeting with your colleagues and you all got ready to just pop a pill in your mouth, a magic creativity, pill, and voila! . In this episode, you’ll learn how different drugs can help (or impair) your creativity. . How different drugs affect divergent or convergent thinking. .

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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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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 10, 2020

Then applying, experimenting and learning from novel practices that provide growing confidence in creative thinking. New practice gives us all the chance to start such totally fresh thinking, they challenge existing paradigms and move you towards considering new business models.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2016

As an introvert, meeting online friends IRL has definitely extended my social boundaries in incredibly positive ways. It’s made me more open to meeting new people. Want to Meet IRL in Your Town? In multiple cases, these meetings have fostered further collaboration. Let me know! – Mike Brown.

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Phil McKinney

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

If you want to be creative, then it's important to learn how to laugh at yourself and not take things so seriously all the time! But if you meet […]. They're those people that take everything far too seriously and never find humor in life or other people.

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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.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

By and large, hotel meetings rooms suck for actually encouraging people to collaborate and work productively. That’s why I find myself so frequently trying to manipulate hotel meeting rooms in ways that hotel proprietors never imagined. 12 Reasons Hotel Meeting Rooms Suck for Collaboration. Conquer Fears of Business Innovation!

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

The challenge in a client meeting was developing the strategy for a later meeting intended to build support for a biennial community event. The potential supporters in the later meeting were community organizations. 9 Creative Thinking Skills to Turn Talk into Strategy.

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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 applied his creative thinking skills and came up with a solution that was pure extreme creativity.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. User groups : Hold user group meetings where ideas are shared and feedback is welcomed. Your team, unit, division, and even enterprise should know what is most important to your customers. Begin with the End .

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Innovation is often sparked by creative thinking, personal experience, and diverse perspectives that only people can still provide. They can apply contextual knowledge that AI tools might miss, refining the results to meet specific business objectives. I think, in your gut, you know that answer to that question.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

It is being forced back in the production process to meet rapidly changing demand. Large-scale product runs are being adapted to meet more specific opportunities; response rates and customer engagement are being hugely advanced by technology and constant exploring the full customer journey with data and analytics helping the understanding.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 26, 2017

We are encouraging a more abstract thinking as we are increasingly focused on “engineering our business in new and different ways and this becomes the uniqueness and requirement of applied innovation to meet specific needs. A constant redesign to meet the circumstances.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

You know, this week doesn’t have to be as unproductive as last week, what with business meetings going nowhere along with wasting time, positive energy, and any hope of creativity. If you’re up for abruptly halting the cluster f%@k of the modern business meetings you attend, contact The Brainzooming Group ?

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BrainZooming

JULY 31, 2017

I visited it a few days early to see the meeting room. I survived the presentation, and had the opportunity to meet Michael Irvin, “The Big Idea Guy.” Michael won the creative kit door prize I gave away. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. they were delivering at the top of their lungs.

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

The following are suggestions to encourage you and your colleagues to start becoming more creative today. At the end of the day, people should meet and ask each other what they did differently and better than it was the day before. Creative Corner Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking.

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Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Think of five other ways to define your challenge. Assign a “fun fairy” to each of your meetings. Turn a conference room into an upbeat “think tank” room. Block off time on your calendar for creative thinking. Use creative thinking techniques. Have shorter meetings. Have more fun.

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Michael Michalko

MAY 14, 2022

Following are tips on how to loosen up the group to energize their creative thinking. Ask participants to draw a personal symbol that metaphorically symbolizes their view about creativity. A six word description of creative thinking could be: “Last night confused. It can be anything…….an Chastity belt.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

When you are undertaking such a transformation in any system like energy, innovation becomes vital to inject new forces of dynamism and creative thinking to tackling such a change.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

They are an invaluable resource for meeting managers and meeting organizers who aim to foster an environment where collaboration is not just encouraged but ingrained in the company culture. Innovation Encouraging creative thinking and problem-solving as a group.

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Collaboration Technical Review Team Building Culture 100

Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

The following are suggestions to encourage you and your colleagues to start becoming more creative today. At the end of the day, people should meet and ask each other what they did differently and better than it was the day before. Creative Corner Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking.

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Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A six-word description of creative thinking could be: “Last night confused. Ask each participant to write a six-word book that describes their perspective on creativity. Have the participants create different names for: mountain cloud ocean world painting creative thinking. A six-word memoir might read “For sale.

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Brainstorming Groups Creativity Exercises 111

Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Another challenge is the potential for information overload due to the plethora of communication channels like emails, instant messaging, and virtual meetings. Continuous exposure to screens and online meetings can lead to burnout, making it essential to encourage regular breaks and promote a healthy work-life balance.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Another challenge is the potential for information overload due to the plethora of communication channels like emails, instant messaging, and virtual meetings. Continuous exposure to screens and online meetings can lead to burnout, making it essential to encourage regular breaks and promote a healthy work-life balance.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

In fact, if you think about it, innovations quite often make the practical aspects of life better. While innovations often start with creative thinking that may or may not be grounded in reality, the ones that become reality are those that solve very real problems or satisfy very real needs. Implement innovations.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 8, 2017

Inexperience in: the kind of divergent thinking necessary to innovate, in specific meeting behaviors and facilitation skills, and in innovation process, approaches and frameworks. Yes, you can train people in creative thinking, Front-End-of-Innovation (FEI) frameworks, and in meeting facilitation.

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Collective Campus

OCTOBER 30, 2017

How do you go about finding and hiring such applicants when your company insists on candidates meeting criteria such as being a certified accountant which tends not to lend itself to right-brained, creative thinking.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

As a meeting manager or organizer, you can facilitate these qualities by: Promoting Diversity of Thought: Encourage your executives to consider multiple perspectives and to challenge their own assumptions. It is vital for you to regularly evaluate the mindset shift and the strategic thinking capabilities of your executives.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

As a meeting manager or organizer, you can facilitate these qualities by: Promoting Diversity of Thought: Encourage your executives to consider multiple perspectives and to challenge their own assumptions. It is vital for you to regularly evaluate the mindset shift and the strategic thinking capabilities of your executives.

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Strategic Thinking Change Leadership Collaboration 130

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

We need to consider how big data and analytics, technology and a far more creative thinking needs to be applied collectively but in greater constellations of partners. There has been an increasing emphasis on linking concepts in new and novel products and services, increasingly closer to these customer needs and desires.

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