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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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Leadership Development Self Leadership brainstorming clarity Coaching' A Master Certified Coach, he focuses on helping leaders and teams cultivate success in their organizations. Don has appeared on radio and television, and delivers keynote speeches and workshops across the country and abroad.

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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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Lead Change Blog

JULY 20, 2020

Do a little bit of “personal brainstorming.” Finally, he identified the most important thing to do. Use Your Journal to Get Good Ideas. One of the best ways to get good ideas is to wrestle with a problem in your journal. ” Write down ideas as you get them. Analyze them, combine them, or eliminate them.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 26, 2024

The magic in the conversation is the “how can we… ” brainstorming. Step 2: Brainstorm Forces Split the team into smaller groups, if necessary, and brainstorm the forces driving change (positive forces) and those resisting change (negative forces). Step 1: Define the Change Describe the change.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Career Development Leadership Development brainstorm personal development' Kristy currently functions as the Director of Social Responsibility for a consumer goods manufacturer who supplies to the world’s top retailers. Connect with Kristy on Linkedin or her Lead Change Profile page.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This phrase subtly says, “Let’s stop the finger-pointing and start brainstorming, because no one’s getting a trophy for winning the blame game.” Instead, focus on solutions and steer the conversation toward what really matters: fixing the problem and learning from it. Here’s what I contributed and the steps I took.”

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 20, 2014

We’d been meeting all week, meeting after meeting, a gaggle of senior leadership and marketing team leads, workshopping and brainstorming and collaborating over all that we’ve been, where [.] We laughed as we said it, sitting together in the mothership executive conference room at Peoplefluent planning our global domination strategy.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Share the behavior you’re working on and make a commitment to check in with one another once a week to see how things are going and discuss challenges and brainstorm next steps. Find someone you trust who understands what you’ve just learned (someone else in your training class is a great choice).

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

To spark creativity, keep in mind: Brainstorming Sessions: Regularly scheduled sessions can help generate fresh ideas. Alex Osborn, the creator of brainstorming, discovered that teams who brainstorm can produce 50% more ideas than those who don’t.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 6, 2021

If you’re wrestling with imposter syndrome, you can even take five minutes to brainstorm your “Why I’m the most qualified to talk about this” list. Start by drawing confidence from that.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

When I confessed I had no idea how I would sing about sushi, we brainstormed ideas (we landed on “Fish Glorious Fish (Oliver style).” I checked in with my veteran auctioneers. “Oh yeah that works,” they were all with me using the non-traditional approach. We sold a plenty of sushi.

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Career Advancement

MAY 11, 2020

Lead team brainstorming meetings. Call your team together for a group brainstorming session, asking them all to chime in with ideas for dealing with a specific problem. With a tool like Slack, you can continue the brainstorming exercise after the session is disbanded—good ideas might keep arising after the meeting concludes.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Cultivate Curiosity Encouraging Team Involvement Brainstorm Together : Invite your team to share ideas to make the transition smoother. Provide Support : Offer resources or additional support to help your team adapt to the change that comes with the return to office initiative.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 1, 2019

Follow up by brainstorming ways to help every team member in your organization discover the value of “Yes, and” for themselves and put it into practice. Then, ask if responses to their ideas, goals, and plans are typically affirmed/built upon or dismissed/redirected? Grab a meal with your leadership team and then play “Yes, And.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 15, 2014

During the warm-up, we created a brainstorming tree that was taped to the ground, a play on the “choose your own story adventure” stories that are popular with kids. After a shared warm-up activity and a rush of excitement, they returned to their seats with clipboards, paper, pencils, and electric conversation in the air.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2021

Should we allow criticism while brainstorming? by @drjimanderson. What should you do after your presentation? Consider offering thanks and sending follow up information to keep the connection going. via @MITSloan. Leadership Secret: Be "Other-Centered" by @DebbieLaskeyMBA.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Once you join the conversation, you’ll have the luxury of brainstorming with iconic leaders, rising stars, student-leaders, executive coaches, and business school professors. We invite you to watch this interview clip and then join the conversation. We want to hear your thoughts and your perspective.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 25, 2018

A coach serves as a valuable partner by offering a collaborative process in five key areas: brainstorming, awareness, action plans, accountability, and encouragement. Brainstorming. A coach provides a safe place for brainstorming by offering time and space for the leader to think out loud.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Want to brainstorm unique ways to market your book this holiday season? Bonnie guides participants on how best to position themselves as leaders in a crowded field and avoid some common traps that hold us back from showing up as authentic leaders.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Brainstorm and come up with ideas that you both think might work. Seek clarity on how the team member came to that conclusion and how it differs from your own stance. Step Five: Co-Create Closure. Now you both understand each other’s point of view it’s time to co-create a solution.

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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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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Regularly engage in brainstorming sessions with your team, fostering an environment of creativity and collective wisdom. Elevate your collaborative efforts by embracing variety in thought and background. Actively seek opinions from outside your industry or expertise, enriching your perspective.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Provide avenues for brainstorming and collaboration. Once decisions are made, they make strong partners in rolling out change initiatives and executing on them. Assign creative thinkers to explore new ideas and alternatives to meet the challenges at hand. Establish a framework to capture their best ideas.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Brainstorming. Most people think they already know how to brainstorm. However, they usually don’t, and never really leverage the power of a well-run brainstorming session. When a meeting leader paraphrases, checks for understanding, and asks follow-up questions, it encourages more participation and keeps the discussion flowing.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 14, 2023

Instead of getting the team together to “ideate”, why don’t we just do some brainstorming? Ideate – Speaking of ideas, let’s resist the urge to turn nouns into verbs. That’s a classic source of buzzwords, by the way.) Disintermediate – This one can be so confusing I probably need to begin by using it in a sentence. Still confused?

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Offer a structured brainstorming conversation that invites new ideas. Launch a “CEO for a Day” forum. Host town meetings with workers from across all levels of your organization to ask what they would do differently if they were CEO for a day. Start with questions that generate ways to improve current practices.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 28, 2021

A best practice we are seeing with our clients planning their return to the office strategy is carving out “quiet hours” with no meetings and/or open-office hours where employees can “drop by” virtually or in-person to share ideas, brainstorm, or even get a quick response to a problem.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 7, 2016

Help your team brainstorm the most important behaviors here. Help your team to step back and celebrate the elements of good. What must we do to show up as gracious lose rs? In order to win well the next time, it’s so important to not show up as bad sports. ” Remember Winning Well is a marathon.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Once you’ve finalized your Top 5 priorities document, work with your team to brainstorm W4s for each item under the priorities. Decide on adjustments then pull your team together to present your finalized Top 5 priorities document. STEP 3: REENERGIZE. It helps people to have clarity about their specific responsibilities.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 29, 2014

What’s wrong with benchmarking and brainstorming. The huge benefit in involving front-line employees in problem solving (i.e. managers getting out of the office and into the field). Why you should put a price tag on everything. Five surprising words that stop good executives from being great leaders. Why businesses should MacGyver it.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 15, 2025

Still, nothing replaces real-life reflection: journaling after tense meetings, brainstorming with peers, or simply listening to that inner alarm when you sense the tension. Self-awareness demands introspectionunderstand if youre a visionary who stinks at follow-through or a conflict-resolution ninja who avoids data.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

If they are clueless, meet with the employee individually to explain his or her role as salesperson [leader] for the company and to brainstorm ways to enhance it. Ask them how their individual roles serve the customer, ask for their ideas to better serve the customer, and ask what they hear about the company on the street from customers.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 2, 2024

Fostering Innovation and Creativity Entrepreneur coaching is much more than just brainstorming or generating ideas. By refining their decision-making skills, leaders can better navigate uncertainty and achieve more successful outcomes, ultimately driving stronger business performance.

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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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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Track the amount of change in your market, brainstorm your Super Future , prepare scenarios to disrupt or avoid being disrupted, assume that far-off predictions will happen sooner than you think, compare the present to the past to predict the future. We have a very difficult time understanding the compounding impact of change.” What to do?

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Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Real-World Scenario: Imagine a tech sales team facing a sluggish quarter introduces weekly brainstorming sessions. Action Step for Leaders: Encourage open sharing of ideas during team meetings and create structured brainstorming opportunities. If you want your sales team to excel, start with collaboration and trust.

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