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Top 5 Speaker

Mitch Ditkoff, the Co-Founder and President of Idea Champions, has recently been voted a top 5 speaker in the field of innovation and creativity by Speaking.com, a leading speaker's bureau. Raise the bar for innovation now!
World Business Forum 2011 Featured Blog Our Blog — "The Heart of Innovation" has been named one of the World Business Forum's Featured Blogs for 2011.
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Awake at the Wheel, Book about big ideas 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.
See Mitch's keynote address Enjoy a 7-minute interview with Mitch at the Ethical Sourcing Forum in NYC: 3/28/11
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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. Read More!
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.
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
BrainTrust.
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TEAM REALITY CHECK
We Are All in This Together

On a scale of 1-5 (with "5" being the highest possible score), please rate the team you work most closely with on each of the following indicators of success:

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1. Clear about it’s mission?
2. Aligned about roles and responsibilities?
3. Communicating effectively?
4. Freely sharing information?
5. Trusting each other?
6. Making the best use of conference calls?
7. Enjoying the process of being on a team?
8. Free of blame-making and gossip?
9. Going the extra yard?
10. Free of group think?
11. Giving and receiving feedback to and from each other?
12. Keeping its commitments?
13. Collaborating effectively?
14. Diverse enough?
15. Thinking creatively about its goals and challenges?
16. Celebrating its successes?
17. Sharing best practices and lessons learned?
18. Equally accountable for results?
19. Getting the support it needs?
20. Aligned about its mission?
21. Operating under clearly defined agreements?
22. Able to make wise decisions in a timely way?
23. Speaking its truth with each other?
24. Truly motivated?
25. Learning from mistakes and breakdowns?
26. Asking for what it needs?
27. Being strategic? Planning ahead?
28. Flexible and adaptive?
29. Making best use of email and online collaboration tools?
30. Taking full responsibility for creating extraordinary results?
31. Connecting as human beings, not just “task-doers”
32. Making best use of outside resources?
33. Listening to each other?
34. Focused on results?
35. Resolving interpersonal breakdowns in a timely way?
36. Confident about being able to accomplish it’s mission?
37. Meeting frequently enough?
38. Succeeding in its mission?
39. In sync about how and what it communicates to others?
40. Committed to a process of becoming a high performing team?

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