 | Encourage creativity solutions to stressCreativity solutions to stress are more than just ideas – the very exercise of being creative can help resolve tensions. The ideas help too! This … Read more |
6. Creativity – generating ideas and insights
 | Equipping your Online Meeting RoomThe online environment has a tremendous range of options for fully engaging people and their ideas in meetings. So how do you make use of … Read more |
 | Opening QuestionsThe following helpful article on opening questions was created by J.Elise Keith of Lucid Meetings, who provide software, training and resources for meetings. She writes … Read more |
 | Inspiring ActivityEngagement of people in a meeting makes a big difference to the quality and ownership of the result. Speaking and listening can prove poor mechanisms … Read more |
 | The chemistry of inspirationI have long felt intrigued (and somewhat threatened) by the fact that small shifts in the chemistry of our brains can lead to major shifts … Read more |
 | Asynchronous meetingsAsynchronous means ‘not at the same time’. Asynchronous meetings are a form of collaboration where the topics, the purpose and the inputs and outputs resemble … Read more |
 | The $500 betThis particular exercise is based on the results of a survey undertaken by a consulting organisation of failed and delayed projects. In their interviews of the … Read more |
 | Meaningful ConversationThe Vital Role of Inner Condition in Meeting Effectiveness A big factor in the effectiveness of any meeting is the attitudes of the people within it. … Read more |
 | Establishing a meeting culture for effectivenessDo we tolerate poor meeting behaviour because it is so prevalent. Or is it so prevalent because we tolerate it? – – – – – … Read more |
 | Developing a vision for web-based meetingsWhat is your vision for web-based meetings? While you may appreciate the importance of visions and clear pictures of what you are working toward, it … Read more |
 | Icebreakers, questions, creative exercises‘Ice’ in a meeting is the invisible barrier that suppresses individual contributions. It starts out quite normally in waiting for the host of the meeting … Read more |
 | Creativity ToolsCreativity templates have been constructed to stimulate and challenge the minds of the group to take different perspectives on a situation, and to see what … Read more |
 | Reframing MatrixThe Reframing Matrix is a technique for looking at the problem from different perspectives (planning, product, people and potential, rather than the more abstract perspectives … Read more |
 | Problem RestatementProblem Restatement is a technique for looking at the problem from different perspectives (usually more abstract ones, rather than the stakeholder ones reflected in the … Read more |
 | BrainstormingBrainstorming is probably the best known, the most-used, and the most misused tool in creative work within organisations. Essentially it is a free-form technique for … Read more |
 | Effects DatabaseThe Effects Database is a useful tool for applying the principles of TRIZ quickly and easily to problems and idea generation. It has been created … Read more |
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| Rules of BrainstormingEnsure people understand the following simple set of rules of brainstorming before they start: Defer judgment Go for volume Stay focused/on topic Capture every idea … Read more |
 | Castles in the air – Setting stretch targetsAs Henry David Thoreau observed ‘If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. … Read more |
 | What is meta?The term ‘meta’ is used when something refers to itself or, as Wikipedia explains, it is a concept which is an abstraction behind another concept, … Read more |