The document provides 10 guidelines for effective brainstorming:
1. Come prepared and invite others to do so as well.
2. Invite people from other departments to contribute different perspectives.
3. Reframe the problem statement to spark new ideas.
4. Record all ideas as they are generated.
5. Defer judgment and build on ideas without criticism.
6. Continuously generate ideas without stopping.
7. Set large quotas for the number of ideas to be generated.
8. Elaborate on and improve existing ideas.
9. Use visuals like drawings to connect and organize ideas.
10. Consider alternative problem framings by envisioning threats to spark
Creativity & 10 tips for better brainstormingDavid Burton
This document discusses creativity and innovation. It defines creativity and innovation and examines different creative behaviors and personality types. It also presents a process for moving creative projects through different phases, emphasizing the importance of the improvisation phase. Key recommendations include breaking habits, changing environments, exploring new perspectives, and building a culture that encourages ideas without early judgment.
7.5 Tips for Becoming a Brainstorming GeniusBrightEdge
Katie Fetting's sermon on why what you say is rapidly becoming less important than how you say it. Learn to brainstorm content that's clearer, wittier, and cooler than your competition.
Brainstorming Techniques For New Product Development Complete PowerPoint Deck...SlideTeam
The document discusses various brainstorming techniques that can be used for new product development. It begins with an overview of basic brainstorming principles like deferring judgment and encouraging wild ideas. It then covers specific techniques such as individual versus group brainstorming, structured versus unstructured approaches, brainwriting, mind mapping, reverse brainstorming and more. The document provides details on how to implement each technique and analyze the results, with the goal of generating many novel ideas for new products.
Brainstorming is a group process to generate many ideas for solving a problem. The process involves:
1) Defining the problem in advance.
2) Holding brainstorming sessions to collect ideas without judging them.
3) Evaluating and filtering the ideas after brainstorming.
The key rules for brainstorming are to withhold judgment, encourage wild ideas, focus on quantity over quality, and build on others' ideas. Diverse team members contribute to successful brainstorming. The goal is to suggest many ideas that may stimulate solutions in others. Preparation includes collecting inspiration from anywhere to bring new ideas to sessions.
A must read for all creatives who suffer that usual struggle with the initial part of the creative process: Brainstorming. Also for people interested to know how ideas are generated and how human mind responds to creativity challanges.
The document outlines 10 steps for conducting an effective brainstorming session: 1) Define a question, 2) Find a moderator, 3) Choose a meeting place, 4) Invite diverse participants, 5) Communicate values like no criticism, 6) Define the goal, 7) Develop ideas individually and then as a group, 8) Categorize ideas, 9) Select great ideas using criteria, and 10) Have participants choose ideas to pursue. Conducting brainstorms using these steps can lead to more creative and innovative ideas by bringing together a diverse group and encouraging open sharing in a supportive environment.
Brainstorming is a process for generating new ideas in a group setting. There are traditional and advanced forms of brainstorming. Traditional brainstorming involves a group generating ideas without judgment. Advanced brainstorming uses specialized creative thinking techniques to increase the number and diversity of ideas. These techniques include random words, pictures, websites, role playing, and challenging assumptions to prompt new perspectives. The benefits of brainstorming include developing new opportunities and solutions, while the risks can be overcome with proper facilitation and techniques.
Creativity & 10 tips for better brainstormingDavid Burton
This document discusses creativity and innovation. It defines creativity and innovation and examines different creative behaviors and personality types. It also presents a process for moving creative projects through different phases, emphasizing the importance of the improvisation phase. Key recommendations include breaking habits, changing environments, exploring new perspectives, and building a culture that encourages ideas without early judgment.
7.5 Tips for Becoming a Brainstorming GeniusBrightEdge
Katie Fetting's sermon on why what you say is rapidly becoming less important than how you say it. Learn to brainstorm content that's clearer, wittier, and cooler than your competition.
Brainstorming Techniques For New Product Development Complete PowerPoint Deck...SlideTeam
The document discusses various brainstorming techniques that can be used for new product development. It begins with an overview of basic brainstorming principles like deferring judgment and encouraging wild ideas. It then covers specific techniques such as individual versus group brainstorming, structured versus unstructured approaches, brainwriting, mind mapping, reverse brainstorming and more. The document provides details on how to implement each technique and analyze the results, with the goal of generating many novel ideas for new products.
Brainstorming is a group process to generate many ideas for solving a problem. The process involves:
1) Defining the problem in advance.
2) Holding brainstorming sessions to collect ideas without judging them.
3) Evaluating and filtering the ideas after brainstorming.
The key rules for brainstorming are to withhold judgment, encourage wild ideas, focus on quantity over quality, and build on others' ideas. Diverse team members contribute to successful brainstorming. The goal is to suggest many ideas that may stimulate solutions in others. Preparation includes collecting inspiration from anywhere to bring new ideas to sessions.
A must read for all creatives who suffer that usual struggle with the initial part of the creative process: Brainstorming. Also for people interested to know how ideas are generated and how human mind responds to creativity challanges.
The document outlines 10 steps for conducting an effective brainstorming session: 1) Define a question, 2) Find a moderator, 3) Choose a meeting place, 4) Invite diverse participants, 5) Communicate values like no criticism, 6) Define the goal, 7) Develop ideas individually and then as a group, 8) Categorize ideas, 9) Select great ideas using criteria, and 10) Have participants choose ideas to pursue. Conducting brainstorms using these steps can lead to more creative and innovative ideas by bringing together a diverse group and encouraging open sharing in a supportive environment.
Brainstorming is a process for generating new ideas in a group setting. There are traditional and advanced forms of brainstorming. Traditional brainstorming involves a group generating ideas without judgment. Advanced brainstorming uses specialized creative thinking techniques to increase the number and diversity of ideas. These techniques include random words, pictures, websites, role playing, and challenging assumptions to prompt new perspectives. The benefits of brainstorming include developing new opportunities and solutions, while the risks can be overcome with proper facilitation and techniques.
The document provides guidance on how to effectively conduct a brainstorming session. It emphasizes that brainstorming works best with a diverse group of people, an energetic and well-structured process, and by focusing on generating as many ideas as possible without criticism. The document also stresses the importance of preparation, including providing background on the topic to help spark ideas, and concludes by noting the value of evaluating, sharing, and building on the ideas that are generated.
This presentation provides students with background information on brainstorming. It is intended as a resource for students working in groups. The presentation was followed by some brainstorming exercises.
This document provides an introduction to and overview of brainstorming techniques. It discusses individual and group brainstorming and outlines the steps to conduct an effective group brainstorming session. It also describes additional brainstorming methods like reverse brainstorming and random input that can help generate more creative ideas. The goal of brainstorming is to come up with many radical and creative solutions to problems by suspending judgment and encouraging divergent thinking.
Brainstorming is a group process used to generate ideas without criticism, where all participants contribute ideas on a given topic. It is meant to spur creativity rather than make decisions. Properly facilitated brainstorming leads to more creative ideas, involvement from all participants, and buy-in for the process. The document provides guidance on preparing for and conducting a brainstorming session, including deciding the topic, notifying participants, gathering materials, setting ground rules, recording all ideas generated, and following up after the session.
Brainstorming is the set of techniques of generating ideas. All techniques have much in common, but you can pick the best way of brainstorming taking into account conditions, materials, time, and a client.
This document provides techniques for effective brainstorming. It discusses setting the right environment by focusing on relationships and possibilities before action plans. Various brainstorming methods are presented, including programmed vs lateral thinking, SCAMPER, random input, reversal, and provocation. A simple 3-hour brainstorming approach is outlined involving defining problems, generating concepts, and filtering the most promising ideas. Resources for further learning on brainstorming techniques are also provided.
This document discusses the limitations of traditional brainstorming techniques and proposes an alternative approach. It outlines that brainstorming often fails due to social loafing, evaluation apprehension, and production blocking. Members of brainstorming groups exert less effort due to social pressures and a fear of judgment from others. As a result, alternative techniques like the Nominal Group Technique are more effective by allowing ideas to be generated anonymously before discussion to reduce these social influences. The document promotes using techniques like NGT that incentivize contributions and focus discussion on problem-solving to cultivate ideas more efficiently.
This document discusses creativity in business. It defines creativity as bringing something new into existence, like a product, process or thought. For businesses, creativity means finding new solutions and innovations to solve problems or create new offerings. Highly creative people are courageous, intuitive, playful, expressive, motivated to find solutions, and willing to challenge assumptions. The document provides examples of how people can demonstrate creativity at work, such as inventing new processes or finding new applications for existing ones. It also discusses brainstorming as a tool to generate many new ideas for solving problems or pursuing opportunities.
The document discusses various brainstorming techniques that can be used to generate ideas for essays. It describes 9 different techniques: freewriting, making a cube, clustering, listing/bulleting, Venn diagram, tree diagram, acting like a journalist, T-diagram, and spoke diagram. Each technique is explained, with examples provided. The document advises using brainstorming techniques to overcome writer's block and organize thoughts before writing an essay.
This document outlines David Kelley's presentation on creativity. The presentation covers:
- How creativity helped Kelley through college
- Defining creativity as the application of knowledge and experience
- Common blockages to creativity like old habits and lack of confidence
- The importance of being open and building on others' ideas during creative brainstorms
- An exercise where participants connect 9 dots using 4 straight lines to demonstrate divergent thinking
- Stages of the creative process including defining problems, generating ideas, and selecting concepts
- Tips for facilitating creative sessions like using energizers and establishing ground rules to think outside the box
This document provides guidance on running an effective idea generation session, including recommended structures, techniques, and considerations. It recommends beginning with scene setting to understand the audience, problem, or product. Quantity techniques like quick-fire post-its and pairs exercises aim to generate many initial ideas. Quality techniques like building on ideas and De Bono's 6 Hats help refine and develop ideas. The document includes an example agenda and emphasizes preparation, facilitation, and getting feedback to conclude the session.
Brainstorming is a group discussion technique used to generate creative ideas and solutions to problems. It involves spontaneously contributing ideas without judgement, building on others' ideas, and aiming for quantity over quality of ideas. The key steps are to define the problem or goal, gather a diverse group of people, establish rules like avoiding criticism, write down all ideas, and follow up on the most promising concepts. Brainstorming helps organizations innovate by collecting many perspectives to identify new opportunities and solutions.
Describing brainstorming briefly with its techniques and types with simple images giving a text to the audience , containing references , summary , and the objectives of studying this document .
Brainstorming is a technique where a group or individual gathers ideas spontaneously to find a conclusion for a specific problem. There are two types: individual brainstorming where one person brainstorms alone, and group brainstorming where developing ideas in depth with others. Effective group brainstorming requires having a clear objective, recording all ideas without criticism or interruptions. Brainstorming encourages creative thinking and participation but works best with a focused group and facilitator.
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Design Thinking - 101 Building EmpathySara Fortier
This document outlines an agenda for a design thinking masterclass on building empathy. It includes introductions, an overview of design thinking concepts, and exercises for building empathy through ecosystem mapping, interviews, break-up letters, and finding insights. The goal is for students to practice empathy building techniques to better understand problems from a human perspective in order to ideate solutions. Students will work through scenarios and discuss needs and pain points to develop insights that can be used to innovate in future classes. Resources on design thinking and human-centered design are provided.
This document discusses problem solving and brainstorming. It begins by outlining the objectives and introducing problem solving and brainstorming. It then describes the characteristics of problems, the 5 step problem solving process of defining the problem, identifying alternatives, choosing a solution, implementing it, and monitoring/evaluating. Next, it covers advantages and disadvantages of problem solving, as well as the brainwriting technique. The document proceeds to explain how brainstorming works, how to organize a session including preparation, rules, and evaluation. Common mistakes to avoid and benefits of brainstorming are also outlined. It concludes by mentioning brainstorming can be done using Xmind and provides references.
Brainstorming is a technique used to generate many creative solutions to a problem by focusing on the problem and coming up with radical solutions without criticism. Ideas should be as broad and unusual as possible and developed quickly during brainstorming sessions. Effective brainstorming requires clearly defining the problem, keeping the session focused without criticism, and encouraging participants to build on each other's ideas to spark new solutions.
Brainstorming is a technique for generating ideas creatively as a group. It involves deferring judgment on ideas, focusing on quantity over quality of ideas, welcoming unusual ideas, and building on others' ideas. The method was developed in the 1940s and popularized in the 1950s as a way to improve idea generation among employees. Key aspects of brainstorming include defining the problem, selecting participants, generating ideas freely without criticism, and later evaluating and building on ideas. It is commonly used in business for problem solving, opportunity finding, and quality improvement processes.
Visual Thinking for Brainstorming, Planning, Learning, Collaborating, HarvestingGiulia Forsythe
This document discusses various techniques for visual thinking, brainstorming, planning, learning, and collaborating using graphic recording and sketchnotes. It provides examples of graphic recordings done at conferences and events, and emphasizes that sketchnotes can be done by anyone, not just artists. Key aspects of visual note-taking discussed include using simple shapes, templates, timelines, and conceptual metaphors to aid memory and learning.
O documento descreve as etapas do processo de brainstorming: orientação, onde o coordenador apresenta o problema; preparação, com a alocação de tempo para geração de ideias; ideação, fase de associação e escolha das melhores ideias; e resultados, com diversidade de soluções geradas.
The document provides guidance on how to effectively conduct a brainstorming session. It emphasizes that brainstorming works best with a diverse group of people, an energetic and well-structured process, and by focusing on generating as many ideas as possible without criticism. The document also stresses the importance of preparation, including providing background on the topic to help spark ideas, and concludes by noting the value of evaluating, sharing, and building on the ideas that are generated.
This presentation provides students with background information on brainstorming. It is intended as a resource for students working in groups. The presentation was followed by some brainstorming exercises.
This document provides an introduction to and overview of brainstorming techniques. It discusses individual and group brainstorming and outlines the steps to conduct an effective group brainstorming session. It also describes additional brainstorming methods like reverse brainstorming and random input that can help generate more creative ideas. The goal of brainstorming is to come up with many radical and creative solutions to problems by suspending judgment and encouraging divergent thinking.
Brainstorming is a group process used to generate ideas without criticism, where all participants contribute ideas on a given topic. It is meant to spur creativity rather than make decisions. Properly facilitated brainstorming leads to more creative ideas, involvement from all participants, and buy-in for the process. The document provides guidance on preparing for and conducting a brainstorming session, including deciding the topic, notifying participants, gathering materials, setting ground rules, recording all ideas generated, and following up after the session.
Brainstorming is the set of techniques of generating ideas. All techniques have much in common, but you can pick the best way of brainstorming taking into account conditions, materials, time, and a client.
This document provides techniques for effective brainstorming. It discusses setting the right environment by focusing on relationships and possibilities before action plans. Various brainstorming methods are presented, including programmed vs lateral thinking, SCAMPER, random input, reversal, and provocation. A simple 3-hour brainstorming approach is outlined involving defining problems, generating concepts, and filtering the most promising ideas. Resources for further learning on brainstorming techniques are also provided.
This document discusses the limitations of traditional brainstorming techniques and proposes an alternative approach. It outlines that brainstorming often fails due to social loafing, evaluation apprehension, and production blocking. Members of brainstorming groups exert less effort due to social pressures and a fear of judgment from others. As a result, alternative techniques like the Nominal Group Technique are more effective by allowing ideas to be generated anonymously before discussion to reduce these social influences. The document promotes using techniques like NGT that incentivize contributions and focus discussion on problem-solving to cultivate ideas more efficiently.
This document discusses creativity in business. It defines creativity as bringing something new into existence, like a product, process or thought. For businesses, creativity means finding new solutions and innovations to solve problems or create new offerings. Highly creative people are courageous, intuitive, playful, expressive, motivated to find solutions, and willing to challenge assumptions. The document provides examples of how people can demonstrate creativity at work, such as inventing new processes or finding new applications for existing ones. It also discusses brainstorming as a tool to generate many new ideas for solving problems or pursuing opportunities.
The document discusses various brainstorming techniques that can be used to generate ideas for essays. It describes 9 different techniques: freewriting, making a cube, clustering, listing/bulleting, Venn diagram, tree diagram, acting like a journalist, T-diagram, and spoke diagram. Each technique is explained, with examples provided. The document advises using brainstorming techniques to overcome writer's block and organize thoughts before writing an essay.
This document outlines David Kelley's presentation on creativity. The presentation covers:
- How creativity helped Kelley through college
- Defining creativity as the application of knowledge and experience
- Common blockages to creativity like old habits and lack of confidence
- The importance of being open and building on others' ideas during creative brainstorms
- An exercise where participants connect 9 dots using 4 straight lines to demonstrate divergent thinking
- Stages of the creative process including defining problems, generating ideas, and selecting concepts
- Tips for facilitating creative sessions like using energizers and establishing ground rules to think outside the box
This document provides guidance on running an effective idea generation session, including recommended structures, techniques, and considerations. It recommends beginning with scene setting to understand the audience, problem, or product. Quantity techniques like quick-fire post-its and pairs exercises aim to generate many initial ideas. Quality techniques like building on ideas and De Bono's 6 Hats help refine and develop ideas. The document includes an example agenda and emphasizes preparation, facilitation, and getting feedback to conclude the session.
Brainstorming is a group discussion technique used to generate creative ideas and solutions to problems. It involves spontaneously contributing ideas without judgement, building on others' ideas, and aiming for quantity over quality of ideas. The key steps are to define the problem or goal, gather a diverse group of people, establish rules like avoiding criticism, write down all ideas, and follow up on the most promising concepts. Brainstorming helps organizations innovate by collecting many perspectives to identify new opportunities and solutions.
Describing brainstorming briefly with its techniques and types with simple images giving a text to the audience , containing references , summary , and the objectives of studying this document .
Brainstorming is a technique where a group or individual gathers ideas spontaneously to find a conclusion for a specific problem. There are two types: individual brainstorming where one person brainstorms alone, and group brainstorming where developing ideas in depth with others. Effective group brainstorming requires having a clear objective, recording all ideas without criticism or interruptions. Brainstorming encourages creative thinking and participation but works best with a focused group and facilitator.
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Design Thinking - 101 Building EmpathySara Fortier
This document outlines an agenda for a design thinking masterclass on building empathy. It includes introductions, an overview of design thinking concepts, and exercises for building empathy through ecosystem mapping, interviews, break-up letters, and finding insights. The goal is for students to practice empathy building techniques to better understand problems from a human perspective in order to ideate solutions. Students will work through scenarios and discuss needs and pain points to develop insights that can be used to innovate in future classes. Resources on design thinking and human-centered design are provided.
This document discusses problem solving and brainstorming. It begins by outlining the objectives and introducing problem solving and brainstorming. It then describes the characteristics of problems, the 5 step problem solving process of defining the problem, identifying alternatives, choosing a solution, implementing it, and monitoring/evaluating. Next, it covers advantages and disadvantages of problem solving, as well as the brainwriting technique. The document proceeds to explain how brainstorming works, how to organize a session including preparation, rules, and evaluation. Common mistakes to avoid and benefits of brainstorming are also outlined. It concludes by mentioning brainstorming can be done using Xmind and provides references.
Brainstorming is a technique used to generate many creative solutions to a problem by focusing on the problem and coming up with radical solutions without criticism. Ideas should be as broad and unusual as possible and developed quickly during brainstorming sessions. Effective brainstorming requires clearly defining the problem, keeping the session focused without criticism, and encouraging participants to build on each other's ideas to spark new solutions.
Brainstorming is a technique for generating ideas creatively as a group. It involves deferring judgment on ideas, focusing on quantity over quality of ideas, welcoming unusual ideas, and building on others' ideas. The method was developed in the 1940s and popularized in the 1950s as a way to improve idea generation among employees. Key aspects of brainstorming include defining the problem, selecting participants, generating ideas freely without criticism, and later evaluating and building on ideas. It is commonly used in business for problem solving, opportunity finding, and quality improvement processes.
Visual Thinking for Brainstorming, Planning, Learning, Collaborating, HarvestingGiulia Forsythe
This document discusses various techniques for visual thinking, brainstorming, planning, learning, and collaborating using graphic recording and sketchnotes. It provides examples of graphic recordings done at conferences and events, and emphasizes that sketchnotes can be done by anyone, not just artists. Key aspects of visual note-taking discussed include using simple shapes, templates, timelines, and conceptual metaphors to aid memory and learning.
O documento descreve as etapas do processo de brainstorming: orientação, onde o coordenador apresenta o problema; preparação, com a alocação de tempo para geração de ideias; ideação, fase de associação e escolha das melhores ideias; e resultados, com diversidade de soluções geradas.
This document discusses brainstorming, including its definition, history, steps, uses, and application in the classroom. It provides an overview of brainstorming as a spontaneous group discussion to generate ideas, its development by Alex Osborn in 1953, and how it allows people to think more freely. The document also outlines the role of the teacher as a facilitator, types of brainstorming, rules such as no wrong answers, and concludes by thanking everyone for their participation.
Brainstorming is a group creativity technique developed in the 1930s to generate many ideas for solving a problem. It involves focusing on quantity over quality of ideas, withholding criticism, and welcoming unusual ideas. There are different techniques for brainstorming including nominal group, group passing, team idea mapping, electronic, and directed approaches. Brainstorming can increase creativity and encourage collaboration, but disadvantages include potential clashes and lack of understanding of the process.
Maximizing your brainstorming power through 7 secrets:
1. Sharpen your focus on the problem to solve.
2. Establish playful rules to encourage ideas.
3. Number ideas to avoid getting stuck on any one.
4. Build on others' ideas and make conceptual jumps.
5. The group remembers more ideas than any individual.
6. Stretch mental muscles by considering different perspectives.
7. Get physical movement to stimulate new connections.
Brainstorming Techniques and How To Get CreativeHellocomputer
If you're looking for ways to inspire your team and yourself, take a look at this presentation by Hellocomputer copywriter Jean-Pierre Le Riche on how to brainstorm creative ideas, how to fake creativity until you make it, and how to use the everyday world and the things around you to draw inspiration and get those creative juices flowing.
Credit: Jean-Pierre Le Riche
Twitter: @jpleriche
Although brainstorming can be an ideal way to generate ideas, it comes with challenges that include the risk of inferior ideas, participant inhibitions and reduced morale. This Blue Paper examines brainstorming alternatives such as blitzing, brainswarming, e-brainstorming and timeboxing.
Brainstorming is a technique used to generate ideas where team members play different roles. It involves establishing ground rules such as not judging or criticizing ideas, focusing on a problem statement that is open-ended, and using techniques like random word generators or asking novel questions to stimulate creative thinking. The goal is to produce a high quantity of ideas through an interactive group process without early idea evaluation.
This document provides 9 techniques for brainstorming ideas for an essay: 1) Freewriting, 2) Making a cube, 3) Clustering, 4) Listing/bulleting, 5) Venn diagram, 6) Tree diagram, 7) Acting like a journalist, 8) T-diagram, and 9) Spoke diagram. It also outlines 4 rules for effective brainstorming: do not criticize ideas, aim for quantity over quality, build on others' ideas, and allow any idea regardless of how unusual. The goal of brainstorming is to generate as many ideas and questions about the topic as possible before writing the essay.
Nobody's Got Time for That: The Case for Making Time for Creative CultureJeffrey Stevens
Teams that allow time for the creative process are essential for modern, forward-thinking organizations. Part one of this presentation discusses tips and techniques for building a team culture that makes the time for mental breaks and collaborative exercises that promotes creativity and problem-solving. Part two discusses some of the psychological factors that keep us from taking that creative leap forward. Presented by Jeff Stevens and Carlos Morales and the 2014 Summer UF Health Communications Retreat at the Hippodrome.
Brainstorming is a technique used to generate ideas in small groups where participants suggest ideas without criticism or judgment. A research study found that brainstorming using word mapping in oral communication classes helped Japanese high school students learn. The document provides examples of different types of brainstorming activities that can be used in language classes, including making simple word lists, brainstorming based on a principle, and predicting or freely associating around a central theme.
The document describes the Disney method of brainstorming, which divides people into three groups or "rooms" - Dreamers, Realists, and Critics. Dreamers focus on developing wild, imaginative ideas without limitations. Realists then take the ideas and make plans to implement them practically based on available resources. Finally, Critics review the ideas and plans, playing devil's advocate by pointing out potential problems or issues. The goal is to leverage the strengths of different thinking styles at each stage to generate innovative yet feasible ideas and solutions.
This document outlines principles and techniques for ideation and design workshops. It discusses constraints to consider in design like technology, business needs, and materials. It then describes a research plan involving observations, insights, and prototyping. Brainstorming rules are outlined emphasizing quantity over quality. Specific brainstorming techniques are also presented like brainwriting, rule breaking, and questioning. The document concludes with examples of design principles for different products focusing on being short, memorable, and differentiating.
Bringing Lo-Fi to Wifi: Effective Brainstorming via VideoLean Startup Co.
William Donnell @sodiumhalogen SODIUM HALOGEN
Post-it Notes and whiteboards are basic office collaboration tools, supporting useful, well-established processes for group brainstorming. But when you’re not physically next to the same wall, the effectiveness of these tools crumbles. William Donnell, Founder of Sodium Halogen, an experience-design consulting firm, often works with groups of up to eight and will share the techniques he’s developed for ensuring lively, engaged virtual brainstorming.
The document provides instructions for conducting an ideation session using a "mixtape" approach to reframe challenges and generate unexpected solutions. It involves preparing by identifying a unique perspective on the challenge, developing provocative brainstorming prompts, getting the team energized with a stoke activity, conducting a brainstorming session to generate many ideas, and selecting multiple ideas to take forward by prototyping. The goal is to explore solutions widely and preserve innovation potential rather than narrowing too quickly.
Reignite your desire to improve (NDC Sydney 2018)Richard Banks
"We're doing pretty well. There's not much to improve on" #sigh
It's so, so easy to get improvement fatigue. To become overly familiar and comfortable with the little dysfunctions in how you and your team work. To stop improving and start missing out on the fresh ideas and experiments that could elevate your team beyond the level they're currently working at.
Let's explore the common problems teams often become comfortable with, and ideas for addressing them. Let's explore what you could try that can help your team think differently, to challenge the status quo, and to help you and your team reinvigorate your desire to improve and to raise your game to the next level!
The document discusses strategies for improving innovation and creative thinking in organizations. It provides 10 tips for encouraging innovative thinking such as getting rid of mental locks, using both sides of the brain, learning and applying creative thinking techniques, moving outside one's area of expertise, avoiding classic innovation traps, allowing failures, creating process maps, getting out of one's own way, and creating an environment that supports innovation. The document emphasizes that fostering innovation is important for businesses to develop new products/services, find solutions to problems, and stay competitive. Regularly challenging assumptions and traditional ways of thinking can help stimulate innovative ideas.
The document provides an overview of various idea generation techniques:
- It describes brainstorming, both individually and in groups, as well as steps for effective group brainstorming. Additional techniques covered include triggered brainwalking, questioning assumptions, picture prompts, SCAMPER, observation, referencing, interaction, imagination, dreams, and creative aerobics.
- The goal of ideation is to generate the best solution to satisfy customer needs, rather than a large number of ideas. Effective techniques encourage lateral thinking and building on others' contributions to develop original, creative solutions.
This document provides guidelines for facilitating productive brainstorming sessions. It discusses preparing for the session by understanding the brief and objectives. During the session, the facilitator should manage the pace and energy, starting with warm-up techniques to generate ideas before encouraging group ideation. Various brainstorming techniques are described, such as round robin, starbursting, and role storming to help participants approach the problem from different perspectives and build on each other's ideas. The document emphasizes setting guidelines and rules to ensure a safe and creative environment.
This manual is designed to help users capture inspiration from an innovation workshop. It includes sections on common language, behaviors that support innovation and creativity, identifying issues, generating insights and ideas, and creating an action plan. The document provides principles, tips and exercises to stimulate innovative thinking and collaboration.
In which we share insights on:
(A) 5 principles of adult learning,
(B) 5 good-to-know, brain-related buzzwords,
(C) 2 formulas for great storytelling in facilitating professional development workshops.
Activities include:
(1) Sharing about excellent workshops learners have attended, the adult learning principles they already implement, and their new ideas based on the material we've covered,
(2) 140-character reactions to the content, group discussion, and what fellow learners have shared that resonates with us,
(3) group story development based on the villain + victim + hero or the challenge - connection - creativity plots by Gary Stone and Gary Klein.
Σήμερα, με το πάτημα ενός κουμπιού έχουμε πρόσβαση σε όλο τον κόσμο, εξοπλισμένοι με ποικίλα εργαλεία , έχουμε την ευκαιρία, να εξερευνήσουμε νέες δυνατότητες , νέες ιδέες , νέες τελετουργίες και λύσεις . Έχουμε όμως ακόμα όνειρα; Με αφετηρία τη διαδικασία της σχεδιαστικής σκέψης ( ‘designerly’ ways of thinking), θα μελετήσουμε βήμα προς βήμα τα στάδια μετάβασης από την ιδέα στην υλοποίηση της δικής σας δράσης.
Designed to help nonprofit and foundation leaders design bold new strategies. Based on 12 thought-inspiring questions to get to a Simple Unifying Idea.
The document discusses ways to promote creativity in the workplace. It provides tips for using creative thinking, such as approaching problems from different angles and experimenting with new ideas. It also describes when creative thinking is appropriate versus when more logical thinking is needed. Additionally, it lists 10 specific ways to foster creativity, including maintaining a flexible attitude, asking questions, expressing ideas, and making work more interesting through dedication and viewing it as a form of art.
Where does creativity come from? Explore then inspire your content marketing with quotes and tips from Content Marketing World keynote speaker John Cleese and other creative innovators.
The “Course Topics” series from Manage Train Learn and Slide Topics is a collection of over 4000 slides that will help you master a wide range of management and personal development skills. The 202 PowerPoints in this series offer you a complete and in-depth study of each topic. This presentation is on "Group Thinking".
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Creativity can be taught, nurtured,
and enhanced. It does not belong solely
to the artist among us, and certainly
is not genetically limited to the gifted.
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LIvE BR aInSToRmInG SESSIonS
Every organization uses it. Every manager, board member, director, volunteer, participant or member
has played a part in it at least once a year. We are talking brainstorming sessions.
Personally, I have been in so many to the point that I plan my early exit strategy before we even
begin. How many sessions have you been into that you can consider effective?
Brainstorming is a powerful tool, if used correctly, can enhance any decision a manager is ready to
take. But just like any power tool, you must follow the instructions on how to put it together and use
it, else you risk doing a bad job, or worse, harming yourself.
Take your mind back to the last brainstorming session you attended. What do you think was good
about it? What did it lack? Did you contribute to it? Got something out of it?
In this article, I will put the spotlight on 10 guidelines to conduct a successful one, should you
be in charge of facilitating the next brainstorming meeting.
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1 ComE PREPaRED. anD InvITE oTHERS To Do So Too.
If you notify all the participants 2 days in advance of the purpose of your session, and ask them to
come ready with one or two ideas, you will have a head-start. People won’t take those precious first
awkward moments to set their inner moods.
2 InvITE oTHERS To THE PaRT y.
yes the team members are the only ones concerned with the longer working hours, but if you invite
people from other departments, participants, board members, or customers, you might be surprised
at what they can bring to the table. maybe your colleague has access to technology that will cut the
time you write your report in half, your participant has extra free hours to volunteer with clean-up, or
your partner organization has the contacts you need to slash costs in half. Throw in some munchies
and drinks to feed the tummies as you drain the brains.
3 THInk anD RE-THInk THE RE aL ISSuE.
Tackle the problem, not the symptoms. Re-writing that question or issue will open new lines of
thoughts and increase the quality of the ideas. For example, if the session’s title is: “How can we
involve board members in fundraising”, a new personal statement – such as “How can we make
the board member be involved in a particular program” – will add new dimensions to your ideas.
Play with the statement for a while before settling on just one to start the session.
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In a previous workshop I conducted in creative thinking, the group stated that a problem they
faced in their daily work was lack of mental stimulation. I asked them to state the question once,
and then change the verb each time. Following are some of the results:
Q1: In what ways can we occupy our minds while we do the dull task?
Q2: In what ways can we get more knowledge to enhance the tast?
Q3: In what ways can we become more interested?
Q4: In what ways can we make our work more exciting?
Q5: In what ways can we engage ourselves?
Each question will require a different thinking mode, resulting in multi-leveled solutions for
the same problem.
4 RECoRD aS you Go.
Don’t forget a single word. assign a note taker to write everything in front of everyone. This will
give you the extra benefit of enhancing each others’ ideas. Don’t forget to give that person a chance
to contribute as well.
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5 DEFER juDGmEnT.
Imagine a pearl diver, plunging in the middle of the sea to collect one oyster, swim back to surface,
straight to shore and open his find, only to find nothing. Then he will put on his suit again, paddle
back for a second one.
THAT is exactly what you do when you stop at each idea to evaluate it.
In one of the sessions I attended, 3 out of 5 suggestions I proposed were rejected on the spot by the
facilitator, “We don’t have enough money for that”, or “We cannot designate a worker for this idea”.
not only was I put off – and in so refused to participate anymore—the group lost the opportunity to
enhance those “weird” ideas to better fit the need. other members didn’t propose any ideas out of
fear of being rejected and the talk remained between the facilitator and director.
a brainstorming is just this: storming! In a real climate storm, you don’t stop running to asses the
damage. you keep running until you reach a safety, a dead-end or your time runs up. But unlike
a real weather condition, you have options in this room-temperature setting: you can re-state the
problem to open a new stream of thoughts, or schedule another session to follow up.
jot down everything! and then search for your treasure among those ideas.
6 BEComE a GEnER aToR maCHInE.
never, nEvER, stop when you feel you have reached a suitable or good solution. you risk loosing a
better one that might come in the next 4 minutes. keep moving, with new fresh ideas or enhancing
previous ones when you run out of juice (or coffee). Radical and crazy ideas must not be confined
in your brain cells. Get them all out on the table—and blackboard—as well.
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In a non-profit that ran a small video store, a crazy idea came in our brainstorming session of
how to increase revenue, was to rent movies free of charge. Thankfully, that idea was not rejected,
but worked with as is. The store decided to test it.
In a corner, a Tv was set with lots of carpet space. It showed movies for free but sold popcorns,
drinks, pizzas, and cushions. Soon sales took off and they learned something new. now they
rent the movies (for money) but provide a tested menu to order with every rented movie depending
on its type (horror, comedy, drama…), and it worked!
Set a timer (one hour) and continue to storm it.
7 FoRCE L aRGE QuoTaS.
Don’t stop because time ran out. Type the written ideas and send them to the same team and
include others who didn’t attend the session. ask each to add 2 more ideas to reach the 100
quota before moving to the next step of evaluating them. ask them to add to the already written
ideas as well.
8 EL aBoR aTE anD ImPRovE.
Connect two or more ideas to create a combined one, modify a plan by looking at it from
different angles, the workers’, the participants’, the sponsors’, the board members’, the funders’,
and other organizations’ point of view.
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9 EnHanCE vISuaLS.
on your flip chart you write the words that describe the proposed solution, but that is not your
only option. use sketches (my favorite is the stick man), drawings, color coding, arrows, triangles,
stars and crooked lines to connect the thoughts. you will appreciate the master piece once
you’re done and might consider framing it.
10 THRE aTEn youRSELF.
Why not make everybody sit upright and tensed by suggesting more government cuts to your
programs? maybe your facility was closed and was forced out, or the know-it-all manger just quit
and you must run the show with the little information you have.
you can envision your problem from a different perspective by suggesting a reaction to a problem
that increases the adrenaline in many organizations dramatically.
For example: instead of stating “In what ways may we improve our fundraising efforts”, try asking
“In what ways could the government shift their strategies that would really harm us”? or “How can
we work so bad that we loose all the current funding”?. Here you list all the mishaps you can do
(have fun imagining) in order to think of new venues, then implement the opposite ideas. you will
get a much real—straight from the heart—ideas using this tool.
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So there you are, set and ready for your upcoming brainstorming session.
But just before you leave, let’s have a small exercise and answer the following:
“How many uses can you find for a paper clip?” or “What are all the things a paper clip can be?”
Set the timer to 10 minutes, and send your complete list to myarabicstory@yahoo.ca.
I will compile them all and send them back to you in one month.
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ABout the Author
Randah Taher is a project developer and consultant who worked in montreal for 7 years before moving to
Toronto, Canada, where she currently resides. She works with learning, non-profit organizations, and social
enterprises, and is involved in projects concerning youth, education, and community revitalization. She
consults and trains groups in creative problem solving tools, innovative strategic management, restructuring
and program development. Randah is the founder of my arabic Story, a cultural hub with worldwide
volunteers, which narrates folktales by storytelling, doing puppet shows, and recording CDs. Find more at
Contagious Creativity or email myarabicstory@yahoo.ca
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