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Management Files
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The various topics are meant to remind and to stimulate management thought.
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for granted and/or even overlooked.
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CREATIVITY
Variations of Brainstorming | Brainwriting
Brainstorming
— In Brainstorming, group members shift into their creative right brain.
— Since the left brain does not like to relinquish its authority, the environment
of a brainstorming session must be set up correctly in order to encourage the
right brain to dominate.
— The critical components in setting up a brainstorming session include:
- Five to seven people is the ideal group size.
- Some groups may need a leader to help members clearly understand their goal
and explain the procedures of the session.
Note: Studies indicate that having a project manager or department head, etc...
as leader usually inhibits the members of the group.
- Write the problem on a board or flip chart to help members keep the objective in mind.
- Someone should be assigned to write down all responses. This record is
important in the second session when the group reconvenes to evaluate the idea.
- The session should be at least 15 minutes, but no longer than 90 minutes.
- A second session should be scheduled several days after the first meeting to
allow members to "sleep on it" which may result in additional ideas.
- At the second session, read through list and evaluate each idea.
— Session Rules:
- No judgmental remarks --- positive or negative.
- Quantity rather than quality should be emphasized.
- Group will be less inhibited.
- Less inhibited will result in more ideas from which to develop new ideas.
Variations of Brainstorming
— Often a group will contain individuals who are too inhibited to share their idea
or who have been overshadowed by personalities who dominant groups
— A variation that helps to eliminate these problems. Brainstorming rules apply.
- No recorder or secretary is assigned.
- Group members use paper and pencil to write down all ideas, both practical and impractical.
- A master list is then compiled by taking one idea at a time from each member until
all ideas have been given to the group. Members are encouraged to keep
lengthening their list with new ideas.
- Another meeting is scheduled to discuss feasibility of the ideas and to reach a final
decision(s).
Brainwriting
— Group members are asked to write ideas down and pass them around the group for
other members to enlarge or elaborate.
— No judgmental remarks are allowed when ideas or suggested are presented.
- No positives or negatives --- not even "that's good".
- Quantity should be emphasized not quality.
- The less inhibited the group, the less inhibited, the larger the idea pool there will
be which to develop new idea.
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