Spark Disruptive Thinking for Powerful Brainstorms

Empower your teams with provocative tactics that build rapport between team members and fuel powerful brainstorms.

Created by: FutureThink Skill-building
Embrace Simplicity. Unleash Innovation.

What Will I Learn?

• Idea Assessment: Understand how to use an easy-to-apply idea evaluation framework.
• Creative Problem-Solving: Learn to use assumption reversals for better problem-solving.
• Effective Questioning: Discover and apply the Killer Questions technique for effective questioning.
• Brainstorm Revitalization: Learn how to use forced connections to generate creative ideas in brainstorming sessions.
• Stimulate Inspiration: Give team members an opportunity to learn about unconventional sources of inspiration
• Discover Similarities: Help teams identify things they have in common despite having so many differences
• Elevate Explorative Learning: Drive participants to learn about each other in outside-of-the-box ways
• Foster Creativity: Facilitate creative expression while giving partners a chance to get to know each other on a deeper level
• Promote Competition: Allow teams a low-stakes way to engage in competition while learning about one another
• Review ice-breaker activities designed to build trust and collaborative spirit among teams.
• Engaging Meetings: Learn to make ideation sessions enjoyable and productive.
• Routine Disruption: Get inspired on how altering routines can boost innovative thinking.
• B.Y.O.I. Party Strategy: Discover how this strategy can elevate your team's brainstorming sessions.
• Efficient Brainstorms: Learn to use parameters for generating more ideas in less time.
• Encourage Risk-taking: Propel teams to take safe risks and inject a sense of light-hearted humor in the room
• Build Energy: Motivate team competition and build the energy
• Check Alignment: Determine team alignment on key issues while incorporating physical movement
• Generate Ideas: Prime the pump for creative thinking and big ideas
• Boost Familiarity: Familiarize participants with one another while cranking up the energy big time
• Review ice-breakers proven to amplify the energy in the room to improve engagement.

Requirements

• No experience needed.

Target audience

• Business Managers interested in generating better information through thought-provoking questions, learning to evaluate and generate disruptive ideas, creating new possibilities, facilitating creative thinking, shifting from idea generation to idea building, and sparking innovative thinking.
• Business Managers interested in harnessing their team's collective power, utilizing unconventional inspiration, fostering rapport in unique ways, taking strategic risks, promoting healthy competition, ensuring alignment, and encouraging creative thinking.