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

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

• Brain Mapping Handout

Time

30 minutes

Related Activities

• Idea Links [41]


• Lotus Blossom [43]


• Skybridging [46]

Procedure

1. Distribute the Brain Mapping Handout, review it with the participants, and
   answer any questions they may have.


2. Tell them to list, on a flip chart, all major problem elements. They should include
   relevant people, processes, issues, time schedules, expectations, outcomes—any-
   thing that helps them understand the challenge.


3. Instruct each group to tape three pieces of flip chart paper on a wall so that the
   sheets are side-by-side. If a wall is not available, have them put the paper on a
   table.


4. Have them select the most central, core problem element of those they listed and
   write it down on the center of a sheet of flip-chart paper. This element should cap-
   ture their primary concern.

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