- After 10 to 15 minutes of this activity, tell them to collect the idea sheets and tape
them to flip charts for evaluation.
Debrief/Discussion
Idea Pool is another quick way to generate a relatively large number of ideas in a short
time. As with Brain Purge, Idea Pool relies on the ideas of others to help trigger new ones.
It differs, however, in that each person has at least four ideas to respond to as stimuli.
Also consider having participants debrief using the following questions:- What was most helpful about this exercise?
- What was most challenging?
- What can we apply?
- How would you rate the value of this exercise to helping us with this issue?
- Will this exercise be helpful in the future for other sessions?
- What did you learn?
- What will we be able to use from this exercise?
- What ideas were generated, and which ones were most interesting?
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