Related Activities
- Brain Purge [82]
- Group Not [83]
- Organizational Brainstorms [87]
- Your Slip Is Showing [90]
Procedure: Version 1
- Have six people sit around a table and discuss the problem.
- Tell the group members to write down, individually, on a sheet of paper, three
ideas in a 5-minute period. - At the end of the 5 minutes, tell the group members to pass their papers to the
person on their right. - Inform them that the person receiving a paper should examine the ideas and try
to generate new ideas or elaborations. - Continue this process until each group member receives his or her original paper.
- Have the group members transfer all of their ideas to Post-it®Notes and place
them on a flip chart for evaluation. Or write the ideas on a flip chart for evalua-
tion.
Procedure: Version 2
- Have six people sit around a table and discuss the problem.
- Instruct the participants to draw three equal sized, vertical columns (lengthwise)
on a sheet of paper and write down one idea at the top of each column. - After 5 minutes, tell them to pass their papers to the person on their right and
write down at least one idea that improves on the one listed at the top of each col-
umn. (If they can’t think of a way to improve an idea, instruct them to write down
new ideas.) - Continue this process of writing down improvements or new ideas until each per-
son receives his or her original paper or time is called. - Have the group members transfer all of their ideas to Post-it®Notes and place
them on a flip chart for evaluation. Or write the ideas on a flip chart for evalua-
tion.
Procedure: Version 3
- Have six people sit around a table and discuss the problem.
- Assign a member number to each group participant so that each group contains
members one through six. - Give each group member a pad of 4 x 6 Post-it®Notes and instruct them to write
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