Four Different Brainstorming Methods to Try at Your Next Meeting

Status meetings can often seem like time-consuming rumble strips, which only serve to slow a project down and drain it of enthusiasm instead of the desired opposite effect. One way of shifting the format of your status meetings to something more energizing is by altering its dynamic.

Four different ways of brainstorming

While brainstorming is a very potent technique, in order to become productive and fruitful it is important to approach the process with an open mind, eliminate judgment and encourage your team to ask: “Why are we doing it this way?”

Here we propose four brainstorming techniques that support different styles of expression, to try at your next meeting.

Then, each paper passes to the member sitting next to them, who is asked to add their thoughts, elaborating or building on the initial concepts. This exchange goes on until everyone has had the chance to read and add to each of the original papers.

Afterwards, the notes are gathered on a flip board, shared with everybody and discussed. This approach leaves space and time to the individual to process and elaborate on their own ideas without distractions and influences from the “loudest” team members, resulting in the generation of a variety of unique ideas on the subject.

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