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 question was whether it makes sense to try and engage employees in the ways I discussed when they aren’t likely to be around for very long. The answer was easy: Yes!

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Engagement Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Exercises 40

BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2016

3 Keys to Engaging Your Internal Brand Team. One alternative to letting your employees know about a new direction in branding strategy after your customers is to view employees as an internal brand team. With that change in perspective, you introduce possibilities for engaging employee in shaping branding strategy.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

While leading strategy development in a new company poses challenges (including needing to learn a tremendous amount as you go), it has a comparable number of advantages (Including not laboring under preconceived ideas about how the organization does things). 10 Lessons to Engage Employees and Drive Improved Results.

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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.

Strategy 100

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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.

Strategy 100

Strategy Strategy Collaboration Technical Review 100

BrainZooming

MAY 17, 2016

Meaningfully engaging employees when inviting them to share ideas. We’ve worked with Dave’s team on multiple community collaboration engagements related to broadband initiatives, economic development, and Smart Cities. 10 Employee Engagement Ideas to Improve Strategic Results. Encouraging and supporting organizational change.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

*Meaning anyone who provides the vision for a product, whether it be in code, wireframes, comps, prototypes, or cocktail napkins. In years of presentations working at an agency, I learned to sense the tension building before a design was revealed. The best designers take advantage of the opportunity to engage in a strategic discussion.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Roadmap Design 94

BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2017

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved 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. Let’s go! – Mike Brown.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The lean startup methodology emphasizes the importance of agility and learning, with a mantra of “build-measure-learn” to minimize waste and speed up learning. Test and Learn : Share your prototypes with users to gather feedback. Prototype : Turn your ideas into tangible prototypes.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

This choice can lead to improved virtual team communication , effective virtual team project management , and ultimately, enhanced virtual team productivity. To ensure a smooth transition and successful implementation, consider engaging in virtual team building activities and establishing robust virtual team management practices.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

This choice can lead to improved virtual team communication , effective virtual team project management , and ultimately, enhanced virtual team productivity. To ensure a smooth transition and successful implementation, consider engaging in virtual team building activities and establishing robust virtual team management practices.

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Collaboration Software Review Video Project 100

BrainZooming

JULY 6, 2016

10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 21, 2017

Sharing the videos may, in fact, have happened even before senior United executives learned of the incident through internal communication channels. 10 Lessons to Engage Employees and Drive Improved Results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 72

CorporateIntel

AUGUST 6, 2017

Process involves day-to-day workplace routines that reinforce or strip away employee engagement. The CEO pulls together a half-dozen of the best minds in the company to conduct an honest post-mortem of why the company’s strategy is failing. Good process takes a lifetime to learn. You certainly can fix engagement.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Though there may be many different formal education tracks for a career in UX (including certifications and distance learning in related fields like graphic design and software development), thousands of students still go to design schools every year for a traditional undergraduate degree. What I learned in design school. Installation.

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Design Technical Review Software Review Course 93

BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. This new Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons for senior executives to increase strategic collaboration, employee engagement, and grow revenues for their organizations.

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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. That is why weeks such as the last one are so rewarding and filled with learning. 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

When you have solid planning (maybe even over-planning), good strategic thinking questions to identify ways to adapt, and an appreciation for flexibility, unexpected events become a wonderful opportunity for learning and developing. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2017

10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Make sure you stand up for your own people.

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Your Ideas are Terrible

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Ever been in a product strategy meeting and unable to answer this simple question: So who is our customer? Both must find value in your solution to engage. Then update personas as you do Customer Development and learn more about customers. So… just who is our customer anyway? Customers have different needs.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Instead of requiring people complete complex strategic planning templates unrelated to daily business, we use productive interactions to change the strategic planning process from completing complex forms into conversations, events, and experiences people engage in and learn from as they participate. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 1, 2015

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for strong ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. Creating Strategic Impact – How to Start? Just Start!

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. This new Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons for senior executives to increase strategic collaboration, employee engagement, and grow revenues for their organizations. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 13, 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. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Strategy Strategy Guidelines Engagement 40

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

After identifying these two, we gave each of them a pair of orange, “I am creative” notes to self ® socks and invited them to move to reserved, front row seats to work together and learn from each other during the remainder of the creative thinking workshop! 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results.

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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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BrainZooming

AUGUST 1, 2016

Additionally, our design process takes into account what will make collaborative strategy planning participants most efficient and effective. The net of these two approaches is that our client engagements are months shorter than typical strategic planning processes. Want to learn more about collaborative strategic planning benefits?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

As in, “We’ve learned from experience that we don’t want them drug into other tasks they might be able to contribute to if that causes performance and timeliness to suffer.” I asked them to engage in some strategic thinking about innovation opportunities for the company. VERY NARROW AND VERY TARGETED.

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Strategic Thinking Innovation Engagement Creative Thinking 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

The second type of structure, however, is all about helping people use what they know and understand about an organization and its audiences to strategically, creatively, and efficiently develop smart business strategies. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

By leveraging digital technologies and fostering an environment of open communication, you can unlock the full potential of your virtual team and drive your organization towards greater innovation and productivity. When establishing goals, engage with your team to gather input and ensure that everyone is on the same page.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In order to be successful, product managers need to use whatever tools and tactics they have at their disposal to understand and engage with their target customers to gather information about what features to build and when. Flexing Your Experimentation Muscle Learning to run good experiments is tough.

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Underperforming Technical Team How To Roadmap Tools 80

BrainZooming

MARCH 2, 2016

So while these questions are about helping teams to execute strategy, they are as much about making sure you’re a strategic leader that is setting up your team and your organization to maximize success. – Mike Brown. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 2, 2015

This is developing the brand promise ‘inside-out’ and communicating it ‘outside-in,’ implying employees are learning about the new big brand promise at the same time as customers. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

And while they don't mind being hands-on⃜ being makers if you will, they simply cannot tolerate slow execution of stale product lines. In the age of Content Marketing and MakerBots, they want to fail fast, learn fast, and get to market fast with awesome new products.

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Product Development Innovation Engagement Marketing 40

BrainZooming

JANUARY 22, 2016

10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results. This new Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons for senior executives to increase strategic collaboration, employee engagement, and grow revenues for their organizations.

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Exercises Collaboration Strategic Thinking Strategy 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved 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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Brainstorming Strategy Strategy Exercises 40

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved 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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