Guy Kawasaki's Alltop "online magazine rack" has recognized
Idea Champions' blog
as one of the leading innovation blogs on the web. Check
out The Heart of Innovation, and subscribe!
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If you're looking for a powerful way to jump start innovation and get your creative juices flowing,
Awake at the Wheel is for you.
Written by Mitch Ditkoff, Co-Founder and President of Idea Champions.
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Ingenuity Bank!
Enterprise software to help you create a virtual community of inspired, committed, collaborative innovators cranking out great ideas.
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BrainTrust.
Idea Champions' "rent a brain" network of visionaries, wizards, and
creative thinkers ready and able to conjure up breakthrough ideas,
products and services on your behalf.
Read More!
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Innovation Kits.
Here's your one-stop shopping for everything you need (but forgot to ask for) in order to jump start innovation.
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Our 360° Mission Statement ProcessTM helps your entire workforce
dissolve silos and realign with new purpose while drafting your new
company mission statement.
Read A&E Television Network's rave about it here.
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Breakthrough Cafe.
A totally unique brainstorming salon.
Great food. Great food for thought. Great people. Collaborate, have fun,
get out of the box.
"Inno-waiters With Whine Lists" – The Breakthrough Cafe featured in January 2006 issue of
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Conducting Genius
Brainstorm Facilitation Training
“The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.”
Thomas Carlyle
Conducting Genius is a three-day certification training that's ideal for anyone in your organization who's committed to becoming a first-rate brainstorm facilitator. The training is especially suitable for meeting facilitators, change agents, organizational and team leaders, innovation champions, and trainers wanting to become innovation ninjas, or idea catalysts.
Conducting Genius is highly customizable and represents the very best of our 22 years experience designing and facilitating successful brainstorm sessions for a wide range of forward thinking organizations. The training is modular and can easily be adapted to fit the learning needs, social styles, and experience of participants.
While each certification training is unique, it is likely to include a selection of the following topics:
- Why most brainstorm sessions fail
- The varied roles of a brainstorm facilitator
- How to help left-brained people become more creative
- Establishing trust and a culture of innovation
- Creative thinking techniques
- Advanced facilitation techniques
- Framing effective problem statements
- Idea capture
- Emergent design
- Identifying and transforming limiting assumptions
- Experiential problem-solving activities
- The DNA of brainstorming: structure and process
- One-on-one brainstorm coaching
- Designing customized brainstorm sessions
- Listening and feedback
- The right use of innovation-sparking tools
- Conducting idea workouts with key stakeholders
- Real-time brainstorm facilitation practice
- Pre and post session consulting to ensure optimum follow up
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