Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

To avoid the pitfalls of a static strategy and ensure your business is future-proof, it’s essential to foster a culture of agility and strategic foresight. Encouraging creativity and experimentation among your team members can lead to breakthroughs that keep your company on the cutting edge.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By facilitating strategic planning offsites, executives can harness the collective expertise of their team to forge a path toward sustained success. Improved Focus : With day-to-day distractions left behind, your team can concentrate fully on strategic issues and high-level thinking. Objectives should be S.M.A.R.T

Strategy 100

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Artificial Intelligence is not just a tool but a revolutionary force, catalyzing fundamental changes in how businesses operate, compete, and deliver value. This impact is evident across various facets of business, from operational efficiency and customer experience to product development and market analysis.

Strategy 100

Strategy Strategy Change Underperforming Technical Team 100

BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

It seems ridiculous to help a company become better at strategic thinking and marketing without being allowed to tell them how to do it. While this constraint may seem (and actually be) ridiculous, it shaped how the Brainzooming method developed. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 11, 2016

It received enough attention that we decided to share an additional strategic thinking exercise that puts a twist on the typical SWOT analysis. In this case, the letters in the SWOT analysis name still stand for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Need to get your strategy developed quickly? We can help!

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Here is a way you can turn a typical strategic thinking exercise into something new and fun that both adds variety to your strategy meeting AND could trigger some new ideas to get our strategy out of a rut! It highlights your organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Outrageous. Threatening. Mike Brown.

Strategic Thinking 40

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

During in-person and online strategic planning workshops , we regularly use a strategic thinking exercise that helps leadership groups quickly identify a shared future vision statement. The descriptions are purposely neither good nor bad; they simply represent ways an organization could pursue the strategy.

Strategic Thinking 40

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BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

At the 2016 Brand Strategy Conference, Antonia Dean, Director – Marketing, Brand Development, & Strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies covered the strategic thinking ideas behind creating an entrepreneurial environment in a large company. Building the Team. Expect turnover in the team. Defining Success.

Strategic Thinking 40

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Looking for ways to spice up your organization’s strategic planning process before you lock into the same old strategy ideas shaped by your senior team’s conventional wisdom? Try asking surprising strategic planning questions to push your leadership team toward new thinking. What are our threats?

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BrainZooming

MAY 1, 2017

The authors report four characteristics that set top CEOs apart, According to the article, “roughly half the strong candidates had distinguished themselves in more than one of the four essential behaviors, while only 5% of the weak candidates had.”. 4 Critical Factors for Successful Executives in Creating Strategic Impact.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

The objective involved taking twenty-three tables of participants through innovation strategy exercises to identify disruptive concepts, craft strategies, document audience profiles, imagine ideas, develop market positions, and propose all the ideas in 9-second pitches. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Doing the Impossible with Nothing?

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CMOE

MAY 28, 2021

In an industry where life-or-death situations are constant, it can be difficult to think amid all the stress. Healthcare leaders must guide their team members through patient care, equipping them with the right knowledge and tools to protect the well-being of their patients. Competing demands. Healthcare regulations.

Leadership 52

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CMOE

JULY 29, 2021

Unfortunately, not enough leaders are equipped with the right training or knowledge to effectively lead their team members through change; almost two-thirds of employers noted that a lack of change-management expertise was a problem during their recent initiatives. What Is Change Management in Leadership? Learn from failure.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 27, 2019

Orient – Take advantage of your diverse leadership team to assess where your business is (or could be) potentially losing competitive advantage. Decide – Regularly asking and answering a set of strengths- and weaknesses-oriented questions to help identify important strategic drivers and priorities. We are really fantastic at __.

Disruption 89

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We’re scheduled to have more than 120 of the client’s sales team members participate in an interactive, half-day Brainzooming workshop in the Chicago area. We developed this specific list of topics based on feedback from participants on a pre-workshop survey. Setting the Stage for Creative Thinking Skills for Sales.

Creative Thinking 40

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In the spirit of the first Agility question below, rather than trying to imagine questions from across all the companies listed, we limited the focus to creative thinking questions inspired by the top ten most innovative companies’ innovation journeys and priorities. 16 Creative Thinking Questions from the Most Innovative Companies.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 3, 2017

Yesterday, we identified the six types of strategic planning process activities we use to design a client’s strategic thinking workshop. To facilitate you going deeper into thinking about how these activities function within a strategic planning process workshop, here are articles in each of the six areas.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 21, 2017

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence offered an internal branding strategy take on the United Airlines woes, offering strategic thinking questions you can ask and answer to improve your brand’s resiliency and avoid brand crises. Here are three internal branding weak spots the United incident highlights.

Strategy 72

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2018

“The more bad ideas the better. If you work really hard on coming up with bad ideas, sooner or later, some good ideas are going to slip through.” – Seth Godin (June 19, 2018). If innovation is lagging, purposefully use this concept to get your team thinking bigger while it throws off smaller, innovative benefits along the way. #2

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 22, 2019

If you’re interested in implementing personality inventories or style assessments into your own hiring practices, here are the top assessment tools we’ve used and have been hearing about from practitioners to help you understand your employees and potential hires better: DISC. Team Dimensions Profile. Team Dimensions Profile.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Design Ideation 40

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. 10 Employee Engagement Ideas to Improve Strategic Results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

Engagement 40

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

I reviewed all eighty-six pages to develop our change management strategy primer. A 13-Point Strategic Change Management Checklist. Strategic Thinking about What to Keep and What to Creatively Change. Why Change Is Hard – 3 Strategic Thinking Ideas for Making Change Easy. 10 Bad Reasons to Change Strategy.

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Change Strategy Strategy Management 40

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

You probably can’t stop, research different strategic thinking exercises, and incorporate them into your strategy session. What can you do right away to turn deadly strategic thinking exercises into fun strategic planning exercises? Strategic Planning Exercises Can Be Fun. Rearrange working groups.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Here’s an alternative approach we use all the time during strategic conversations: listen for specific types of comments and organize them as you go (or after the fact) into strategic deliverables. For example, before a strategic planning workshop started the other day, an internal client leader held court with the project team.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

We’ve certainly covered the heck out of how bad bosses , toxic cultures , and negative comments can crush creative thinking and creativity. What you might not consider, however, is how an uber-positive boss that is TOO OVER THE TOP when communicating how great early stage ideas are ALSO CRUSHES creative thinking.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 7, 2017

“Inside the Executive Suite” from Armada Corporate Intelligence featured ideas keeping executives focused on strategic priorities during strategic planning meetings. An executive reported a real-time challenge: keeping the senior team at her company focused on strategic priorities. Significant strengths and weaknesses.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Is it a good or bad career strategy if you do not have a job description ? Short of starting by developing a personal core purpose or branding statement, we suggested these three career straegy questions to balance aspirational activities and the “what has to get done” stuff that will not be as exciting.

Strategy 40

Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Strategic Thinking 40

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

As you develop a point of view on where your brand is ripe for change, review the brand update strategy options list. Strategic Thinking Exercises: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis” features eleven ideas for adapting, stretching, and reinvigorating how you see your brand’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Make Sure You Have the Right Team. The big first implementation strategy step is assembling the right team with the skills, experience, and perspectives to make a big initiative happen. They see the scenes and think about what happens and all the people that need to be in place. How will they benefit from it?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

Alternatively, you may be in a place that is thinking way too small; you should get out as soon as you can. If no one ever says your ideas are too bold, that is also bad. It means you aren’t challenging anyone’s thinking with your creativity. Does your CPR vary by client or team?

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

Relatively few methods and tools exist to help companies gain insights into longer-term futures that include discontinuities and disruption. But the tools used today to chart a path into the future – customer insight, market research, business intelligence, technology roadmapping and many others – are built for a continuation of today.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Suppose you’re going into a meeting and taking over leadership of a team or initiative where those you will be leading have been involved and active previously. Develop a basic agenda for the meeting with the participants doing most of the talking, as you listen and summarize ideas. Solicit each participant’s ideas in advance.

Leadership 40

Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Creative Thinking Meeting 40

BrainZooming

JANUARY 26, 2017

There are a number of team development and leadership skills mentioned that fit themes we talk about here. We wanted to highlight specific questions, recommendations, and challenges that seem particularly pertinent for leading strategically and innovatively in the year ahead. A leader should create strategy with a team.

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