- Reserve judgement on all ideas people present.
- Keep generating ideas throughout the brainstorming session.
- Find a large space with plenty of space to capture ideas.
- Stand up. This is no sit-down meeting.
- Have a whiteboard, chalkboard, flipchart, anything that folks can use to capture ideas quickly.
- Choose the right people.
- The people who brainstorm should not be the people making the final decision.
- Communicate and stress the value of the participants joining the brainstorming session.
- Follow the two pizza rule. Your brainstorming team should not excced 6 to 8 people.
- Frame the brainstorming question to maximize creative response.
- Fill the brainstorming eoom with swag that will stimulate discussion.
- Do a warm up excerise to promote creative thinking.
- Remember, there are no bad ideas.
- Remove the most obvious solutions from the onset.
- Build on ideas during the brainstorming session.
- Make sure everyone has a writing utinsel and something to write on.
- Use mind mapping.
- Plan on a hour, no more. This is an exhausting process.
- Throw out surprising and provocative prompts.
- Have participants vote for their favorite ideas in categories.
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20 Rules to Make Brainstorming Meetings More Productive
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