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. The next time someone invites you to toss some ideas around, tell them you’re busy, unless three things are … … Continue reading → Meetings and agendas Meetings Leadership Development organizational success

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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 → Meetings and agendas Leadership Development organizational success

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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.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 24, 2013

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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. Creativity Leadership Solving Problems brainstorming ideas possible solutionWe 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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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 [.]. Bob's blog entries ask the right questions “brainsteering” “Breakthrough thinking from inside the box” “Implications for problem solving groups of empirical research on ‘brainstorming’: A critical review of the literature Brainsteering: A Better Approach to Breakthrough Ideas Choose the right people Coyne Partnership David R.

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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. Your employees have lots of 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. My favorite is the Paper Swap brainstorming activity: A brainstorming technique where participants write their input on separate pieces of paper; then they swap papers and continue to add input.

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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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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. Your employees have lots of ideas.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 6, 2011

How to Get the Best Results From Remote Brainstorming How will you get input and from whom? Here is an article written by Wayne Turmel for BNET (March 28, 2011), The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * One thing you always hear about remote teams is how [.].

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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. Innovation Making Decisions Management Education brainstorming Idea Selection IdeationThe same issue in this post applies regardless of method: what are you going to do with the output?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 28, 2012

How to Get the Best Results From Remote Brainstorming How will you get input and from whom? Here is an excerpt from an article written by Wayne Turmel for CBS MoneyWatch, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To read the complete article, check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of its newsletters, please click here. * * * One thing you always hear about [.].

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Rapid BI

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Brainstorming as an approach can be an effective way of generating lots of ideas on a specific issue which can then be filtered and reviewed to determine which idea or approach is the most appropriate. This pages outlines the history and demonstrates how to conduct an effective brainstorming session. The post Brainstorming technique for innovation, creativity and problem solving – a business strategy appeared first on RapidBi.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

How many times have you been in a brainstorming session this week? ” But no study has proven that brainstorming works well, even though it has been the go-to method for idea generation since 1953. After researching why brainstorming inhibits creativity and innovation, my colleagues and I came up with a new process we call Brainswarming. Chances are the answer is, “More than I can count.”

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Create Learning

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…?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

When your team is tasked with generating ideas to solve a problem, suggesting a brainstorming session is a natural reaction. Although the term “brainstorming” is now used as a generic term for having groups develop ideas, it began as the name of a specific technique proposed by advertising executive Alex Osborn in the 1950s. Brainswarming: Because Brainstorming Doesn't Work. Leading a Brainstorming Session with a Cross-Cultural Team.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2015

The most widely used method to spark group creativity is brainstorming, a technique first introduced by Alex Osborn, a real life “Mad Man,” in the 1950s. But why doesn’t brainstorming work? Given brainstorming’s flaws, why is the practice so widely adopted?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

One exception is group brainstorming, a technique that is still widely used in organizations despite the lack of evidence that it works and compelling evidence that it actually leads to a productivity loss. The advantages of virtual brainstorming have been attributed to three main reasons.

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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. My favorite is the Paper Swap brainstorming activity: A brainstorming technique where participants write their input on separate pieces of paper; then they swap papers and continue to add input. Brainstorming Brian Cole Miller Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Leadership

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 17, 2013

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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. Brainstorming Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Leadershi

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Rapid BI

MAY 20, 2011

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. Management Brainstorming brainstorming research business strategy Chartered Management Institute collaboration guest idea generation technique

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

Brainstorming is the default way in which many teams and organizations come up with new ideas. Brainstorming is better suited to some personalities and cultures than others. As a result, many individuals in the global workplace dread brainstorming sessions and say very little.

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RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 20, 2017

Brainstorming. You’ve already defined the problem and now it’s time to do some brainstorming to come up with creative solutions. Communicate RapidStart Leadership Blog Written Blog brainstorming communication delegation leader patience leadership development stop yourself

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Kevin Eikenberry

APRIL 2, 2012

Creativity Leadership Learning brainstorm game innovation innovative thinking sentence starters thinkingWould you like a way to get better ideas, faster? Would you like to nearly automatically tap into your subconscious brain to help you solve your vexing problems? Would you like a tool that would help your team think more clearly? What if I told you that tool was free, except for the five minutes [.].

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg , coauthor of Innovation as Usual , explains how to drive innovation on a daily basis. Innovation

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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. Brainstorming Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

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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. In Kevin’s article, he discusses the flaws of the standard brainstorming model and offers a new approach to ensure greater success with your team’s efforts. Beyond basic brainstorming: A process for better 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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Management Excellence

JUNE 14, 2015

This week's focus on achieving better alignment with your manager, improving the effectiveness of brainstorming and improving your effectiveness in leading group discussions. Professional Growth Ideas for Professional Development Improve Brainstorming Six Thinking Hats Your Manager's GoalsEvery week, I provide a few simple (but not simplistic) ideas for you to Do/Experiment/Explore in support of your professional development.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Career Development Leadership Development brainstorm personal development Posted in Career Development Leadership Development This is a question I have been meditating on for a few months now. A blog post by Julie Winkle Giulioni finally helped me formulate my thoughts enough to externalize.

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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. Brainstorming requires skill and experience both to do - and especially - to facilitate. A good brainstorming session is competitive - in the right way.

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Create Learning

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Brainstorming is about open sharing, the goal is to get out as many ideas as possible. Corporate Team Building Creativity Innovation Problem Solving Products Team Building Activity Team Training brainstorming activity creativity to innovation innovation activities innovation training TRIZ

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Execupundit

JULY 2, 2013

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 27, 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. Brainstorming Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Leadershi

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leaderCommunicator

JULY 3, 2014

The Science of Brainstorming By Jessica Hullinger, Fast Company “Where do great ideas come from, and how can you generate more of them? Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. Each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays I pull some of the best together here on my blog. So in case you’ve missed them, here is this week’s round-up of top posts.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 26, 2011

Conduct meetings around specific issues and brainstorm solutions. Books For Managers Management Leadership Corporate Culture Listening Skills General Management Skills BrainstormingHere are 10 tips for how to maximize employee involvement: Have active ways to listen to your employees.

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