Spark Disruptive Thinking for Powerful Brainstorms

Empower your teams with provocative tactics that build rapport between team members and fuel powerful brainstorms.

What you'll learn
- Idea Assessment: Understand how to use an easy-to-apply idea evaluation framework.
- Creative Problem-Solving: Learn to use assumption reversals for better problem-solving.
- Effective Questioning: Discover and apply the Killer Questions technique for effective questioning.
- Brainstorm Revitalization: Learn how to use forced connections to generate creative ideas in brainstorming sessions.
- Stimulate Inspiration: Give team members an opportunity to learn about unconventional sources of inspiration
- Discover Similarities: Help teams identify things they have in common despite having so many differences
- Elevate Explorative Learning: Drive participants to learn about each other in outside-of-the-box ways
- Foster Creativity: Facilitate creative expression while giving partners a chance to get to know each other on a deeper level
- Promote Competition: Allow teams a low-stakes way to engage in competition while learning about one another
- Review ice-breaker activities designed to build trust and collaborative spirit among teams.
- Engaging Meetings: Learn to make ideation sessions enjoyable and productive.
- Routine Disruption: Get inspired on how altering routines can boost innovative thinking.
- B.Y.O.I. Party Strategy: Discover how this strategy can elevate your team's brainstorming sessions.
- Efficient Brainstorms: Learn to use parameters for generating more ideas in less time.
- Encourage Risk-taking: Propel teams to take safe risks and inject a sense of light-hearted humor in the room
- Build Energy: Motivate team competition and build the energy
- Check Alignment: Determine team alignment on key issues while incorporating physical movement
- Generate Ideas: Prime the pump for creative thinking and big ideas
- Boost Familiarity: Familiarize participants with one another while cranking up the energy big time
- Review ice-breakers proven to amplify the energy in the room to improve engagement.

Requirements
- No experience needed.

Description
Unleash your potential to bring about a disruptive change in your professional landscape.

This course is designed to empower you to cultivate innovative thinking, kindle original solutions, and ignite invigorating dialogues. You will gain proficiency in presenting creative, provocative, and even unsettling questions by employing 'Killer Questions'—a game-changing approach to questioning. Following this, you will use 'P.P.C.O.' to independently evaluate innovative ideas and data, thereby overcoming any preconceived notions and skepticism. You will be imparted with powerful tools that help stretch creative boundaries, enabling disruptive and groundbreaking ideas to be generated. You will be encouraged to step beyond conventional constraints to discover untapped possibilities.

You will be provided comprehensive guidelines to set the stage for productive ideation meetings, laying the groundwork for extensive idea selection, and facilitating a transformative shift from idea generation to effective idea building. You will gain insights on how to invigorate your business setting, spark innovative thinking, and grant brainstorming sessions with newfound vibrancy and productivity.

You are ready to boost team performance by encouraging outside-of-the-box thinking and enhancing tolerance towards unconventional ideas. You will be well prepared to make brainstorming sessions more stimulating and productive, setting the stage to ignite your next extraordinary idea.

Harnessing the collective strength of a team can lead to extraordinary outcomes, particularly when there's a strong sense of connection and rapport among the members.

This course will introduce practical techniques designed to build trust and foster a collaborative spirit within teams. You will learn how to encourage team members to explore and share unconventional sources of inspiration, fostering a vibrant exchange of ideas. You will assist your team in identifying their common traits, developing an understanding of how to break through differences and establish shared ground.

You will guide participants to embrace out-of-the-box methods to understand each other better. You will learn how to facilitate creative expression, offering an opportunity to strengthen bonds among team members. Additionally, you will understand how to create an environment conducive to friendly competition, stimulating a competitive spirit while enabling team members to learn more about one another.

You will harness the ability to generate a proactive and engaging atmosphere. You will be equipped with strategies to promote risk-taking, infusing sessions with light-hearted humor and elevating the collective energy by nurturing competitiveness. You will learn tactics for aligning the team on key topics, combining cognitive engagement with physical movement, priming for innovative idea generation.

This course will offer strategies to help you facilitate a strong bond of familiarity among team members, which will amplify the energy, yielding outstanding results.

Who this course is for:
- Business Managers interested in generating better information through thought-provoking questions, learning to evaluate and generate disruptive ideas, creating new possibilities, facilitating creative thinking, shifting from idea generation to idea building, and sparking innovative thinking.
- Business Managers interested in harnessing their team's collective power, utilizing unconventional inspiration, fostering rapport in unique ways, taking strategic risks, promoting healthy competition, ensuring alignment, and encouraging creative thinking.
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