101 Activities For Teaching Creativity And Problem Solving

same twenty-five high-quality ideas? The answer: not very high. The sequential approach relies on pure chance to produce a high- ...

57. Be #1 Background You want to be number one, don’t you? Who doesn’t? In the busi- ness world, it’s important to carve out a n ...

Related Activities Idea Links [41] Skybridging [46] Procedure Have the groups tape a sheet of flip-chart paper lengthwise on ...

Be #1 Handout Consider a problem involving a company that wishes to improve its line of floor cleaners. Examples of current bene ...

58. Blender Background A blender mixes two or more products together to produce something that may not even resemble the origina ...

Related Activities Force-Fit Game [74] Procedure Distribute the Blender Handout, review it with the participants, and answer ...

Blender Handout Assume you belong to a group of volunteer speakers. The group has met to brainstorm ways to improve their speech ...

59. Drawing Room Background You have probably browsed in a museum at one time or another. On a visit to a museum in Washington, ...

Related Activities Picture Tickler [17] Rorschach Revisionist [18] Ideatoons [26] Doodles [37] Modular Brainstorming [62] Proc ...

Variations Ask one-half of the group draw an abstract version and the other half a more realistic representation. Instruct the ...

60. Get Real!! Background We’ve all heard it before: “That’s the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard!” “It’ll never work!” “That’s pr ...

Related Activities Picture Tickler [17] Rorschach Revisionist [18] Ideatoons [26] Doodles [37] Drawing Room [59] Procedure Di ...

Get Real!! Handout Suppose your organization wants to attract people to its arts foundation fund raisers. You and some others br ...

61. Idea Showers Background Let the ideas rain on down. Flood your group with thoughts about how to solve your problem. Try for ...

Idea Links [41] What if...? [49] Phillips 66 [64] Procedure Distribute the Idea Showers Handout, review it with the participa ...

Idea Showers Handout Advertising executive Alex Osborn’s four principles for brainstorming are Defer judgment Quantity breeds q ...

62. Modular Brainstorming Background You’ve certainly heard the expression “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Well, you migh ...

Rorschach Revisionist [18] Ideatoons [26] Doodles [37] Drawing Room [59] Procedure Distribute the Modular Brainstorming Hando ...

How would you rate the value of this exercise to helping us with this issue? Will this exercise be helpful in the future for ot ...

Modular Brainstorming Handout To illustrate this activity, suppose you are a facilitator who agreed to help a company improve a ...