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Quick Brainstorming Activities for Busy Managers Brian Miller

Quick Brainstorming Activities for Busy Managers By Brian Miller

Quick Brainstorming Activities for Busy Managers by Brian Miller


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When you and your team are feeling mentally drained, these fifty brainstorming activities can help spark creative solutions, fast.

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Quick Brainstorming Activities for Busy Managers: 50 Exercises to Spark Your Team's Creativity and Get Results Fast by Brian Miller

Filled with clear, concise guidance and quick, easily implemented techniques, Quick Brainstorming Activities for Busy Managers provides supervisors, managers, and team leaders the fun, proven activities they need to get idea-packed brainstorming sessions started, and keep them going. Author Brian Miller helps you explore the most effective brainstorming method for your team and generate the best results using straightforward, focused activities that each take less than fifteen minutes to complete. Readers will discover how to: ask questions that provoke responses and inspire creativity; react to and record ideas in a way that encourages participation and prompts more input; sort and categorize lengthy lists; evaluate ideas; and prioritize the most useful concepts and expand on them. Contrary to popular opinion, great brainstorming sessions don't just happen. For brainstorming to be a truly productive activity, leaders must create the right environment to let employees' ideas flow. Complete with sample dialogues and well as resources for virtual team brainstorming, this indispensable book helps readers guide their teams to generate great ideas.

About Brian Miller

BRIAN COLE MILLER is the principal of Working Solutions, Inc., a management training and consulting firm whose clients include Nationwide Insurance, Kellogg's, and the Ohio State University. He is the author of Keeping Employees Accountable for Results and other popular books.

Table of Contents

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1: BRAINSTORMING 101

What Is Brainstorming?

Why Use Brainstorming?

What Are the Basic Rules of Brainstorming?

How Is a Brainstorming Session Conducted?

What Could Go Wrong?

Summary

CHAPTER 2: IT ALL STARTS WITH A QUESTION

Use Focus Questions to Kick Off a Successful

Brainstorming Session

Using Focus Questions for Idea Generation

A Final Note About Focus Questions

Keep the Ideas Flowing After the Focus Question

Putting It All Together

Summary

CHAPTER 3: THE POWER OF THE PEN

The Four Rules of Recording Brainstorming Sessions

Summary

CHAPTER 4: BRAINSTORMING TECHNIQUES

Traditional Brainstorming

Stickies

Bubbles

Chips

Grids

Last One Standing

Mind Maps

Paper Swap

Plus One

Round Robin

Silent Brainstorm

Taking Turns

CHAPTER 5: CREATIVITY EXERCISES

Associations

Brainstorm Bash

Mega-Doodles

Exaggerations

Forced Conflict

Free Writing

Jeopardy

Let's Get Physical

Mind Readeri

Objects

Pictures

Reverse Brainstorming

Roles

Six Perspectives

Stop and Start

Storytellers

Web Surfing

CHAPTER 6: GROUPING METHODS

Alphabet Categories

Card Sort

Leaderless

Quick Sort

Symbols

CHAPTER 7: PRIORITIZATION PROCESSES

Balloons

Dots

Grid-Based Decision

Investing in Ideas

Ranked Pairs

Pros and Cons

Rotating Charts

Seven

Sudden Death

Thumbs-Up Consensus

Weighted Scores

CHECKLISTS

INDEX

Additional information

CIN0814417922VG
9780814417928
0814417922
Quick Brainstorming Activities for Busy Managers: 50 Exercises to Spark Your Team's Creativity and Get Results Fast by Brian Miller
Used - Very Good
Paperback
HarperCollins Focus
2018-04-24
208
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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