Brainstorming Slide 1 Purpose of Brainstorming To find

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Purpose of Brainstorming • To find innovative solutions to problems • To leverage creativity and motivate to higher plateau of thinking • Create the opportunity for expression of uncultivated ideas • To draw from the diversity of job skills, responsibilities, personalities, education's and backgrounds Slide 2

Everybody is born creative. . . Slide 3

Habits and Attitudes ? Slide 4

Habits can make us. . • Rigid • Unreceptive to change • Not open to new possibilities Slide 5

How many squares do you see? Slide 6

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Criticism. . . Stupid Idea Kills! Slide 9

Osborn’s Rules For Brainstorming • Criticism Forbidden • Freewheeling Encouraged • Quantity (Going for a lot of ideas) • Combine and Expand (Hitch-hiking) Slide 10

Remember. . Slide 11

Being Creative Takes Energy Slide 12

Another Very Powerful Tool. . . Slide 13

It’ll NEVER work. . . Slide 14

But, that’s the way we’ve ALWAYS done it! Slide 15

Yellow red orange YELLOW GREEN Red orange Green blue RED ORANGE GREEN YELLOW GREEN Purple RED red purple RED BLUE red Slide 16

Lions or Gazelles? Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you’d better be running! Slide 17

Find a way you CAN do it. . . Not a reason you can’t! Slide 18

# of Ideas Truly Innovative Ideas “Risky” ideas “Safe” solutions Time Slide 19

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