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Facilitating Brand Strategy Workshops: Begin with Insights, Ideology, Intention

Insights. Ideology. Intention. These are three crucial components of a successful brand strategy. Set yourself up for success by making sure all of these components are part of your next brand strateg… more →

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Facilitating Brand Strategy Workshops: Begin with Insights, Ideology, Intention — 2 comments

Cindy Diamond wrote 8 months ago: Insights. Ideology. Intention. These are three crucial components of a successful brand strategy. Se … more →

Tags: Brand Strategy, Core Ideology, Facilitation, Collaboration, consumer insights, Ideation, iGnite, Workshops

Taking the "no" out of Innovation — 2 comments

Cindy Diamond wrote 8 months ago: Individual credibility or position can have a real influence on the tenor of an idea generation sess … more →

Tags: Brainstorming, Divergent Thinking, Facilitation, Facilitator's Role, Idea Generation, iGnite, ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS, facilitating groups, facilitation techniques

Facilitating Consumer Insights Workshops — 2 comments

Cindy Diamond wrote 8 months ago: One of the most difficult tasks for marketing teams to do without a facilitator is develop consumer … more →

Tags: Brainstorming, Facilitation, Idea Generation, iGnite, innovation process, consumer insights, Diamond Marketing Solutions, Divergent Thinking, facilitating groups

What can corporate America learn from the Special Olympics? — 1 comment

Cindy Diamond wrote 9 months ago: This weekend I had the good fortune to be in the audience cheering on the figure skaters at a Specia … more →

Tags: Brainstorming, Facilitation, Facilitator's Role, diverse groups, Diversity, facilitating groups, facilitating teams, facilitation techniques, iGnite

Core Values: An essential part of core ideology or not? — 3 comments

Cindy Diamond wrote 9 months ago: The most misunderstood, misguided and misrepresented part of an organization’s core ideology i … more →

Tags: Core Values, Facilitation, Facilitator's Role, iGnite, innovation process, New Teams, ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS, starbucks, Team Building

Facilitating Team Building in a Time of Uncertainty — 2 comments

Cindy Diamond wrote 10 months ago: Most of today’s organizations function in a team setting. These may be cross functional or fun … more →

Tags: Facilitation, Facilitator's Role, iGnite, New Teams, ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS, Team Building, Vision, facilitated teams, facilitating groups

Developing a Vision for Your Organization: A Great Team Building Experience — 3 comments

Cindy Diamond wrote 11 months ago: building-your-companys-vision-overview-of-key-concepts3 (link to a Powerpoint presentation) Of all t … more →

Tags: Facilitation, innovation process, Team Building, Vision, Collaboration, Diamond Marketing Solutions, diverse groups, facilitating groups, facilitating team building

Brainstorming: Finding the Next Big Idea — 2 comments

Cindy Diamond wrote 1 year ago: Finding the Next Big Idea (link to presentation) Last week I went to Palm Beach, FL to present at th … more →

Tags: Brainstorming, Divergent Thinking, Facilitation, facilitator training, Facilitator's Role, Idea Generation, innovation process, Lateral Thinking, ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS

The Role of the Facilitator

Cindy Diamond wrote 1 year ago: The Role of the Facilitator To create an effective meeting structure and process a facilitator mus … more →

Tags: Facilitation, facilitator training, Facilitator's Role, Collaboration, Diamond Marketing Solutions, iGnite, internal teams, Mutual Understanding, working with groups

10 Reasons to Hold Retreats to Build Your Business

Cindy Diamond wrote 1 year ago: I read this article on the Brandchannel.com website at http://www.brandchannel.com/brand_speak.asp?b … more →

Tags: Divergent Thinking, Facilitation, Idea Generation, innovation process, Team Building, Vision, Brainstorming, Diamond Marketing Solutions, facilitating team building

Facilitation Techniques for Innovative Creative Thinking — 1 comment

Cindy Diamond wrote 1 year ago: Facilitating groups through brainstorming and idea generation can sometimes feel like trudging throu … more →

Tags: Divergent Thinking, Facilitation, Idea Generation, innovation process, Lateral Thinking, Brainstorming, Creativity, Diamond Marketing, facilitating groups

Scenario Planning Links — 2 comments

Laura wrote 1 year ago: Awhile back I posted a description of the scenario planning process after participating in the scena … more →

Tags: Facilitation, Scenario Planning, scenario-based leadership

Facilitating Idea Generation -- Divergence and Convergence — 2 comments

Cindy Diamond wrote 1 year ago: I read a great snippet today that said “Innovation is 10% idea generation and 90% process. … more →

Tags: Facilitation, Idea Generation, innovation process, Brainstorming, convergence, Diamond Marketing Solutions, Divergent Thinking, iGnite, Innovation

Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions: Setting the Stage — 2 comments

Cindy Diamond wrote 1 year ago: Prior to beginning the facilitation of a brainstorming session with any group, I find that it’ … more →

Tags: Facilitation, Divergent Thinking, Idea Generation, Brainstorming, Ideation, iGnite, Diamond Marketing Solutions, Norms, Rules of Engagement

Facilitating Team Building Sessions using The Five Dysfunctions of a Team — 5 comments

Cindy Diamond wrote 1 year ago: I recently faciltitated a team building session for a senior management team at General Mills. The t … more →

Tags: Facilitation, Team Building, Diamond Marketing Solutions, Faciltiating Team Building, iGnite, Profiles, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Workshops

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