101 Activities For Teaching Creativity And Problem Solving

Also consider having participants debrief using the following questions: What was most helpful about this exercise? What was mo ...

95. Doodlin’ Around the Block Background This activity is a little like Brainsketching [94] in that it involves some doodling. B ...

Related Activities Rorschach Revisionist [18] Doodles [37] Drawing Room [59] Brainsketching [94] Procedure Ask participants t ...

Doodlin’ Around the Block Handout Assume that you manufacture food products and decide to generate some snack food ideas. As sho ...

96. Greeting Cards Background There is little doubt that a playful group atmosphere is more likely to result in quality ideas th ...

Handout Greeting Cards Handout Time 45 minutes (requires prior preparation) Related Activities Brain Purge [82] Museum Madnes ...

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 ...

Greeting Cards Handout Imagine your group is trying to help an airline generate ideas to attract international pas- sengers (Van ...

97. The Name Game Background In developing The Name Game (also known as the Brainwriting Game), Woods (1979) sought to create an ...

Procedure Tell participants that the objective of this exercise is to develop the most improba- ble idea and that whoever sugge ...

shouldn’t be very practical, by definition. However, their very impracticality may serve as stimuli for practical ideas. Also co ...

98. Pass the Buck Background “Passing the buck” is an old expression mean- ing avoiding responsibility by blaming or other- wise ...

Related Activities As Easy as 6–3–5 [81] Idea Mixer [84] Museum Madness [86] Procedure (Note:The following procedure is design ...

Will this exercise be helpful in the future for other sessions? What did you learn? What will we be able to use from this exerc ...

99. Post It, Pardner! Background Those semi-sticky Post-it®Notes are good for something besides general office work such as memo ...

Related Activities Brain Purge [82] Group Not [83] Idea Pool [85] Museum Madness [86] Procedure Distribute the Post It, Pardn ...

Post It, Pardner! Handout Suppose your group wants to generate ways to improve a bed. Group members place Post-it®Notes on the f ...

100. Puzzle Pieces Background In some respects, most problems are like jigsaw puzzles. We have to look over all the pieces, keep ...

Procedure Place a set of blank puzzle pieces on each table. Tell the participants to mix up the puzzle pieces on their tables a ...

101. The Shirt Off Your Back Background If you’re in any type of competitive or stressful work environment, there are times when ...