Scenario: You’re on a task force to come up with new ways to connect with your client base.
Default Option: You plan a meeting and invite the managers of various departments. You send them all the information in the agenda so you can have an open discussion/forum to hear all the ideas people came to the meeting with.
A HMMM Option: You design a specific meeting for optimal brainstorming.
- You craft an open-ended focal question to pose to the group during the meeting
- You invite 3 to 6 individuals that are closest to the problem
- You design the meeting around collecting the most solutions BEFORE discussing the validity of the solutions
- You make it Visual and Fun for optimal results and ease of reporting back. You do this by designating categories and selecting a couple solutions that best fit the categories.
- Good, sturdy, most common solution
- Most fun, unique idea, out of the box
- Most advanced, technical idea
- Most basic, cheapest, immediate fix
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