101 Activities For Teaching Creativity And Problem Solving

101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving.Copyright © 2005 by John Wiley &

Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an Imprint of Wiley. http://www.pfeiffer.com

10. Stereotype

Background

This exercise, as with the Brain Borrow activity [2], is based on the concept of getting a

new perspective by consulting someone else. However, instead of actually talking with

another person, the objective is to think as if you were someone else.

Objectives

• To help participants generate as many creative ideas as possible


• To help participants learn how to use the activities to generate ideas

Participants

Small groups of four to seven people each

Materials, Supplies, and Equipment

• For each group: markers, two flip charts, and masking tape for posting flip-chart
  sheets.


• For each participant: one sheet each of three different colors of sticking dots
  (^1 ⁄ 2 ” diameter) and one pad of 4 x 6 Post-it®Notes

Handout

• Stereotype Handout

Time

30 minutes

Related Activities

• Tickler Things [21]


• Imaginary Mentor [42]


• We Have Met the Problem and It Is We [48]

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