Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Offer a structured brainstorming conversation that invites new ideas. Your innovation team need not operate with the same degree of secrecy as Skunk Works but should be given the autonomy to explore and develop new and innovative projects. Launch a “CEO for a Day” forum. Then move to explore new opportunities.

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CO2

JANUARY 4, 2025

Action Questions operate at the intersection of these dimensions, creating two critical quadrants: Action + Perspective = Innovation with Movement Example: “What can I do to help you achieve your goal? For example: In a brainstorming session, focusing solely on Action Questions may stifle creativity. The solution?

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Naval Operations (CNO) Admiral Vern Clark’s Top 5 priorities in 2003. Once you’ve finalized your Top 5 priorities document, work with your team to brainstorm W4s for each item under the priorities. Here is an outstanding example from Chief of U.S. Beneath each priority, the document details what the U.S. Navy accomplished.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 29, 2025

Whether youre weighing pros and cons or analyzing a market trend, its like having a brainstorming partner on tap. Five years from now, the companies thriving wont just be using tools like ChatGPT or Gemini - theyll have integrated them so seamlessly into their operations that it feels like second nature. Need fresh ideas?

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 19, 2013

Lead by example and let people know that you don''t operate in silos. If you stick only to your inner circle to discuss challenges or to brainstorm possibilities, you are likely to get answers similar to the ones you’ve come up with in the past. Instead, you pitch in when needed and you share your wins - and losses - as a team.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 7, 2017

Brainstorming sessions to come up with productivity ideas. While it was nice to hear they were operating so near maximum possible efficiency, they weren’t looking forward to their next conversation with their investors. Asking employees to find a way to do more with less. Large, clunky capital projects to upgrade assets.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 18, 2010

I am here to brainstorm, help with obstacles, think clearly about opportunities, handle rejection, and help you think factually without all the emotion. And rather than be judgmental, the profiling should help the client understand how they operate and boost their confidence in who they are. To get you to take action.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Brainstorm. Help people see themselves operating in the new environment. Through collaboration, you identify the best opportunities to consider. Tips for identifying what’s possible. Study the best performers. They always provide some useful insights. Increase your curiosity. Seek out new questions to explore.

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Engaging Leader

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Research shows that the environment an individual operates in can either positively or negatively affect creative expression. Jesse and David also answer a question from the Engaging Leader Community: Leslie asks: Last year, I read an article in New Yorker that agrees with your debunking of the brainstorming myth.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 18, 2012

In industry today, we’re all operating in a pressure-cooker environment, laden with deadlines, quotas, and conflicting personalities. When the mood is bad in the office, you may not even realize you’re operating in a negative environment. All this stress, however, can lead to a hostile, negative office atmosphere.

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 13, 2014

where I coach, meet clients, and brainstorm new directions for my company. The other is in Oxford, second floor, where I also coach and brainstorm. I hope some of these tips can help you operate more effectively and efficiently at home. Some back story: I have two offices: One is in Stamford, seven floors up (at the penthouse!),

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CEO Blog

MAY 3, 2011

The energizing high that comes with change and brainstorming new ideas is fleeting. All of the above is not to say change, freshness, and brainstorming is bad. It's good to brainstorm, but pick a few good ideas and analyze the implications of each one. The other day I sat in on a committee meeting of a charitable foundation.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2013

If you operate a home décor company that strives to connect to style-savvy urban hipsters but your website is cluttered, and very UN-edgy, you’re going to be perceived as anything but hip. By brainstorming and executing new ways to effectively communicate your unique offering, you’ll be in a better position to grow your bottom line.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 11, 2012

It’s like your “mental operating software…a mental blueprint of what’s possible for you.” Brainstorm regularly. “When it comes to everyday practical living, EQ beats IQ every time.” Poor self-image Self-image is important because it determines what actions you will take and how you will feel each and every day.

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leaderCommunicator

JUNE 3, 2014

In my view, it can turn a decent brainstorming session into an incredibly powerful one. operations out of Denver. As I saw in Denver, the whole process engages everyone in the room in a way that traditional brainstorms can’t do. What creative tools or approaches are you taking to transform the traditional brainstorming session?

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 4, 2021

Getting your leadership team away from daily operations for a few days of reflection and planning is incredibly effective. Here are a few typical retreat objectives: Strategic planning to frame budgets and operational plans/priorities. Time away from daily operations in a strategic retreat is critical to “sharpening the axe.”

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Tim Milburn

MARCH 7, 2012

It can be as brief as a micro session on effective brainstorming (before your next brainstorming session) to multi-day training sessions and everything in between. If you’ve been operating in a culture in which creativity has not been valued, recognizing creative effort will be even more critical. This can take many forms.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 1, 2010

If I could have a “do-over” for that original event, here is what I would do: Brainstorm the questions and practice the answers beforehand: I would brainstorm the questions that the audience may ask, and practice the answers. I may be able to help you to consider what you might do if you are ever in such a spot yourself.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Collaboration is not a “nice to have” set of soft values, but a strategic way of operation which can advantageously negotiate the complex business environment we live in. The charge was to brainstorm ideas. Let’s revisit the basic tenets of collaboration: Utilize differences. Nurture safety and trust.

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Mike Cardus

JUNE 12, 2013

MindSpin: Team Building Activity for Brainstorming and Solution-Finding. Dimension, Time, Cost Operator: Seeing Problems Differently. Here are some links to the innovation activities that were part of a recent Thinking-Differently Enabling Innovation Workshop. What’s the Companies goal & how do you fit in? Partner Separation.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

Your best chance of having creative, innovative initiatives will occur with behaviors that: Encourage curiosity: Ask open ended questions, encourage forums where it is easy and safe to brainstorm, and model curiosity for others on your staff. You can always speak up if you have to later. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

When each individual comes up with different good ideas, the operating environment quickly gets complicated. Brainstorm: don’t just evaluate each idea as it comes. In the absence of a guiding vision, good ideas represent low hanging fruit that unfocused leaders reflexively reach for, especially when pressured to report visible success.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 24, 2014

In several cases, I noted how problems arose not simply because team members disagreed on a particular point or issue, but because they were operating from different perspectives of what they should be expected to do, and what they saw as being their team mates’ responsibility to address.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

In fact, this ubiquitous field of science seems to now be having an impact on almost every industry, as intelligent entrepreneurs and business managers recognize the need to make data-based decisions while conducting everyday operations and setting long-term goals. Utilizing Competitive Analysis. Consider leaving a comment!

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 10, 2022

This is in large part because people operating under a hybrid approach have the dilemma of where to work and when to consider. Starting a certain day each week with a brainstorming session. Indeed, the research found that flexible working is less productive than both fully remote or fully office-based.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

The ability to meet challenges with a willingness to depart from standard operating procedures; to confront anxiety, tolerate criticism, take intelligent risks, and refute conventional wisdom—especially one’s own views—in order to achieve breakthroughs” is what Jonah Sachs calls unsafe thinking. W E ALL GET STUCK IN RUTS. Thinking ruts.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2025

Then the other kind of data that organizations have that might give them a competitive advantage is all the tacit knowledge that is not documented anywhere but exists in the minds and experience of their best performing employeesthe people who are true experts and masters of their professional craft (be that sales or operations or legal work).

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2020

This involves utilizing a Make Your Case initiative that allows employees to apply their unused skillsets and connections in opening up new ways for their companies to operate. They tend to view skills outside of their employees’ job descriptions as irrelevant to the scope of normal business operations.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 19, 2013

Most salespeople fail because they don't understand the impact of their personalities on the person at the other end of the call.and.they are blindly 'winging it' by operating without a proven sales process methodology. Understanding and executing a proven sales process makes all the difference in face-to-face or virtual selling.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 2, 2016

We can fall into a pattern of operating within the same set of assumptions over and over because we continually see things with the same perspective. Bring outsiders into a brainstorming session. Would the finance person agree that your investment will generate acceptable returns? 2) Force fresh perspective.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Successful reflection, in my experience, follows the principles of brainstorming… write down the first things that come to mind. Then let the brainstormed thoughts sit for a bit (hours or days depends on you). These quick, focused, purposeful actions can only come from thoughtful reflection.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 8, 2017

Discussions focus on routine operational issues and of course these things have to be addressed. You should brainstorm strategic and innovative options. Most management meetings are dull affairs stacked full of short-term problems that need fixing. The kind of question you ask makes a big difference.

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CO2

APRIL 13, 2014

The situations I asked about were operations, finance, staffing, marketing, strategy, town hall meetings, one on ones etc. If you are in a brainstorming meeting leave action questions outside the room and move to knowledge questions. I had sent out a question to some of the most successful leaders in the country.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Share financial and operational data with the people you lead. Participants are assigned to groups of approximately 10 individuals each and the teams get to work on brainstorming and evaluating options. This includes interaction with students and relevant staff and faculty members. Consider then implement the best.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

Liz writes: “ Do you find yourself reserving your input in meetings until after your team has shared or brainstormed? Data is important, don’t get me wrong, but it is only one side of the coin driving innovation and operational success. Your silence may be doing more harm than good. On the other side of the coin is intuition.

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HR Digest

JULY 11, 2019

Brainstormed. Controlled. Consolidated. Emphasized. Established. Overhauled. Transacted. CREATIVE LEADERSHIP. Example: Created, produced, and spearheaded five projects from concept to solution for clients. . Spearheaded. Transformed . CREATIVE THINKING . Theorized . COMMUNICATING . Arbitrated.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Many don’t realize they ARE lonely because they are so busy, yet they don’t have anyone to brainstorm with and they contaminate their team as a result. link] Kathy Gillen This is a powerful article, Mike! CEO’s tend to be lonely and a poor attitude is the synptom.

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