thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MAY 3, 2021

Avoid these three behaviors to improve your next brainstorming session. We’ve all heard of brainstorming, but what exactly is it? In a business sense, brainstorming is the process of coming up with creative ideas and solutions to problems using rapid freethinking. Following these tips can take your brainstorms to the next level.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 30, 2014

“Brainstorming” is a meeting technique that is supposed to encourage a group on people to come up with lots innovative ideas. Unfortunately, so many people think they know how to brainstorm, but end up doing more harm than good. brainstorming meetings teams'

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Rapid BI

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Brainstorming - Research from A&M University has shown that what we thought made Brainstorming work may in fact reduce creativity. This research shows how to make brainstorming work most effectively. The post Brainstorming – Making it work in light of new research appeared first on RapidBI.

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Brainstorming is one of the most over-used words in business today, maybe even most over-used in all organizations. Any time people are trying to come up with ideas, they call it brainstorming. There’s also the faulty belief that brainstorming is all you need to think creatively , but we’ll save that for another day.).

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 29, 2020

Hold at least a few brainstorming sessions each year, as well. And, when you are brainstorming with your employees, try these five tips : Encourage ALL ideas. Shoot for quantity not quality during brainstorming. Don't evaluate or criticize ideas when they are first suggested. Ask for wild ideas.

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Rapid BI

AUGUST 19, 2023

Brainstorming often gets a bad press, with the popular belief being that it fosters groupthink and generally hinders the creative process. New research shines a new light on the value of brainstorming however, especially a bit later in the creative process when ideas have already been generated.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Posted in Leadership Coaching [link] Today’s SmartBlog on Leadership, Beyond basic brainstorming: A process for better ideas, is by Kevin Eikenberry, who is an expert on leadership development, author, speaker, trainer, consultant and coach. Beyond basic brainstorming: A process for better ideas.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Brainstorms are important and an easy way to get everybody together to collaborate, discuss, debate, and ultimately, innovate. But sometimes, you come out of them feeling as if you didn’t get the ideas that you needed, or that the same ideas were being rehashed, or that it was a complete waste of time. So, why.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 26, 2021

Brainstorming often leads a team to the answers you can’t seem to find any other way. And effective questions promote effective brainstorming. The most effective brainstorming begins with great questions. Below are 4 words and sets of questions to lead your team in brainstorming. What went wrong? How did it happen?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 23, 2020

What is brainstorming? Brainstorming is used as a method to generate ideas to solve a problem. Brainstorming is popular mostly in design teams because they have to think out of the box and in every direction. Brainstorming is popular mostly in design teams because they have to think out of the box and in every direction.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The thing I hate about brainstorming is the lack of follow through. Brainstorming, without follow through, is an irritating braindrizzle. The challenge: Nothing kills a “what might we do” conversation more than adding “how… Continue reading →

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

When you’re brainstorming, there’s ONE WORD that can destroy your progress and productivity. Here’s what I mean… Tweet it out: The more often you hear ‘but’ while brainstorming, the less successful your session will be. KevinEikenberry Listen to the audio-only version of this episode.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The post Brainstorming Unity: Characteristics of an Inclusive Workplace appeared first on The HR Digest. These characteristics of an inclusive workplace need to be carefully personalized to suit a company and its workforce and with some time and care, the organization should see its workforce thrive like never before.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Poorly run brainstorming sessions are the biggest waste of all. An invitation to an unstructured brainstorming meeting is an offense to creativity. Meetings that neglect results and don’t impact behaviors are a colossal waste of time.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

According to Brian Cole Miller in his book, Quick Brainstorming Activities For Busy Managers , there are 50 ways to improve your brainstorming at your company or in your organization. Miller provides 49 other techniques in his book (released by Amacom last month), all of which take less than 15 minutes to complete.

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Rich Gee Group

MAY 12, 2024

Solution development should be innovative, inclusive, and strategic: Brainstorming Sessions : Organize brainstorming sessions to encourage every team member to contribute ideas. Solution Development With a clear understanding of the challenges, the next step is crafting solutions.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JULY 7, 2011

Brainstorming – the creation of new or possible ideas – is a critical part of any problem solving or creative process. We all know it. We know that we must have ideas in order find solutions to problems. We even know that the more ideas we find, the better chance we’ll have of creating the [.].

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 16, 2018

Hold at least a few brainstorming sessions each year, as well. And, when you are brainstorming with your employees, try these five tips : Encourage ALL ideas. Shoot for quantity not quality during brainstorming. Don't evaluate or criticize ideas when they are first suggested. Ask for wild ideas.

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Rapid BI

MAY 7, 2018

Deep-Dive brainstorming technique is often used to rapidly immerse a group or team for problem solving or idea creation. Used for brainstorming product or process development. The post Deep-Dive Brainstorming Technique – IDEO appeared first on RapidBI.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Brainstorming To Get Unstuck. To this end, we suggest using brainstorming to come up with more options. We recommend using two simple ground rules: offer no judgments on the quality of what is being proposed (during brainstorming) and don’t worry about attribution.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 13, 2017

Hold at least a few brainstorming sessions each year, as well. And, when you are brainstorming with your employees, try these five tips : Encourage ALL ideas. Shoot for quantity not quality during brainstorming. Don't evaluate or criticize ideas when they are first suggested. Ask for wild ideas.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Alex Osborn (1888-1966) was founding partner of one of the most highly regarded advertising agencies, BBDO, and is credited with introducing the brainstorming process in his book, Applied Imagination: Principles and Procedures of Creative Problem-Solving, published in 1957.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Brainstorming is a staple of the modern workplace, but success rates vary considerably. As the couples began to talk and brainstorm, it was evident that their ideas for the wedding sector were wide and varied. The creative map.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 6, 2016

Hold at least a few brainstorming sessions each year, as well. And, when you are brainstorming with your employees, try these five tips : Encourage ALL ideas. Shoot for quantity not quality during brainstorming. Don't evaluate or criticize ideas when they are first suggested. Ask for wild ideas.

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Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Bloomberg BusinessWeek brings us " Eight Rules To Brilliant Brainstorming ". Use brainstorming to combine and extend ideas, not just harvest them. Do individual brainstorming before and after group sessions. Brainstorming sessions are worthless unless ideas lead to action. Follow the rules, or don't call it brainstorming.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 23, 2015

Hold at least a few brainstorming sessions each year, as well. And, when you are brainstorming with your employees, try these five tips : Encourage ALL ideas. Shoot for quantity not quality during brainstorming. Don't evaluate or criticize ideas when they are first suggested. Ask for wild ideas.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

According to Brian Cole Miller in his new book, Quick Brainstorming Activities For Busy Managers , there are 50 ways to improve your brainstorming at your company or in your organization. Miller provides 49 other techniques in his book (released by Amacom last month), all of which take less than 15 minutes to complete.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 23, 2023

Scenario: Idea generation During traditional brainstorming exercises, it is common for those with the most positional authority or passion for the topic to dominate the conversation. I think we’ve got an opportunity here to level up our brainstorming, would you be open to use it?”

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 6, 2014

The best ideas in an organizational setting often come through brainstorming. If you want to create some excitement around you, get a bunch of people in a room and brainstorm about some change ideas. But, you’ve got to be intentional to brainstorm successfully. That’s the point of brainstorming.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 25, 2014

According to Brian Cole Miller in his book, Quick Brainstorming Activities For Busy Manager s , there are 50 ways to improve your brainstorming at your company or in your organization. Brainstorming Brian Cole Miller Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Leadership Books'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 11, 2011

To read the complete article, check out other material, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * Most attempts at brainstorming [.]. The magazine is published by McKinsey & Company.

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Rich Gee Group

APRIL 18, 2022

Summary: It’s a great tool for brainstorming and encouraging team participation. Let your team brainstorm each one and don’t interrupt unless they need a little push to get their ideas flowing. Tool #3 - Cause & Effect (Fishbone) Diagram This week, let’s focus on a great root causal analysis tool - the Cause & Effect Diagram.

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Management Excellence

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

There are many forms of ideation and all sorts of new tools available to facilitate web-based and remote brainstorming. The same issue in this post applies regardless of method: what are you going to do with the output?

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 13, 2013

Purpose: Brainstorming, creative thought development, team problem solving. Have the topic or idea to be "brainstormed" written on a white board or power point slide: What can we…? Explain that this is going to be a brainstorming session that will be individual as well as team based. Participants: 10 – 25.

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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2024

I learned this principle when helping clients brainstorm how best to leverage AI within their operations. In order to be smart in your approach to an AI project, start with a strategy that you can realistically deploy. Use the principle of “thinking big, starting small, and scaling quickly.”

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 2, 2012

Hold at least a few brainstorming sessions each year, as well. And, when you are brainstorming with your employees, try these five tips : Encourage ALL ideas. Shoot for quantity not quality during brainstorming. Don't evaluate or criticize ideas when they are first suggested. Ask for wild ideas.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 19, 2013

Brainstorming often leads a team to the answers you can’t seem to find any other way. The best brainstorming begins with great questions. Add some of your own, and see if they will lead you through a helpful brainstorming session. Below are 4 words and sets of questions to lead your team in brainstorming.

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