BrainZooming

MARCH 16, 2016

9 Ideas on How to Involve a Team in Group Strategy Exercises. You can try these nine ideas for how to involve team in group strategy exercises: Place people in roles that accentuate their strengths and best characteristics. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 26, 2018

Instead, you start asking questions about HOW to implement the direction, what might have been MISSED, and what things are CRITICAL FOR SUCCESS. There are other questions you can ask, but once the strategy recommendation is complete, you don’t want to waste time opening doors to non-productive strategy options.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Here are four different approaches The Brainzooming Group employs with clients: Instead of using complex strategic exercises that aren’t beneficial outside planning, we use strategic thinking questions that fit how people think and work on a daily basis.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

Executives that SHOULD know how to develop and write a strategic plan struggled. Since strategy planning is an infrequent activity, it is difficult for executives to master it. Strategy Implication: Remove the tedious aspects of strategy planning, replacing them with efficient alternative approaches.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Looking for the Elusive Big Idea during Strategic Planning. Strategic Planning – All the Strategy Roles You Need. Strategic Thinking Perspectives – Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team. Creative Thinking Skills – Using Questions and Structure Successfully. Just Start! Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

. “Internal politics” 3 Strategies for Navigating a Political Environment. “Stickler to the old ways of doing things (and) not willing to get out of the comfort zone” How to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone. Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

Creating Strategic Impact – What Is Your Organizational Body Language Saying? Dilbert and Screwing Up How to Request Employee Ideas. Individuals Posing Creative Thinking Challenges. How Creative Thinking Gets Killed by Team Members – 8 Fatal Blows. 5 Ideas When an Uber-Positive Boss Crushes Creative Thinking.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 8, 2016

Creating Strategic Impact – How to Start? Creating Strategic Impact with Small, Possible Steps. Strategic Thinking and 10 Fundamentals of Creating Strategic Impact. 9 Strategic Thinking Questions – Helping Teams Execute Strategy. Just Start! 8 Ways to Start Now and Quit Waiting.

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Change Strategic Thinking Strategy Strategy 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

They developed a sales strategy and associated messaging for the upcoming year. Afterward, we used a Zoomference to introduce strategies to its top-performing sales people. They provided input on the biggest impact ideas and how to enrich other strategies through additional creative thinking exercises.

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Collaboration Creative Thinking Strategic Thinking Exercises 40

BrainZooming

AUGUST 1, 2016

While the individual steps may seem to go in varied and unexpected directions, they’re all pointing toward the end result of a highly-actionable strategic plan. Individual participants take on different roles within collaborative strategy planning. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Collaboration eBook Strategy Strategy 40

BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

We create these types of radically different (and beneficial) business meetings for clients , in large part, by bringing together the right people in the right settings with the right structure to allow them to be productive and successful participants. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

If you need new ideas about how to approach strategic opportunities and challenges, a collaborative workshop to imagine a variety of possibilities can be very productive. If the gaps pertain to unknown facts and information, brainstorming won’t be productive.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Frequently, when I write a story along the lines of how to fake it until you make it some folks will say you should never fake it. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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