101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving.Copyright © 2005 by John Wiley &
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Suppose your problem involves how to motivate employees to maintain clean office
areas. The lyrics written down in Step 2 might suggest ideas such as (1) sponsoring a
clean office contest and giving the winner a free rental car for the weekend, (2) holding a
fun fashion contest in which participants model clothes using trash picked up in the
office, (3) buying an extra-wide vacuum cleaner, (4) requiring the messiest employees to
stay late to clean their offices, and (5) award the worker with the cleanest office area an
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