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

Miller, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814417922 ISBN 13: 9780814417928

Publisher: AMACOM, 2012

Synopsis

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 this title

Book Description:

Contrary to popular opinion, brainstorming isn’t magic. Truly productive brainstorming sessions are dependent on the ability of the leader to create the right environment and let his or her people’s ideas flow.

Filled with clear, concise guidance and quick, easily implemented techniques, this book provides supervisors, managers, and team leaders the fun, proven activities they need to get idea-packed brainstorming sessions started, and keep them going. Readers will discover how to:

· Ask questions that provoke responses and inspire creativity

· React to and record ideas in a way that encourages participants and prompts more input

· Sort and categorize lengthy lists

· Evaluate ideas

· Prioritize the most useful concepts and expand on them

· And more

Containing sample dialogues, as well as resources for virtual team brainstorming, this indispensible book gives readers the activities they need to generate great ideas, fast.

From the Back Cover:

Your organization is run on ideas...and so is your department. But the task of leading a brainstorming session isn’t as simple as asking for thoughts and writing them down. From reluctant participants, to one person dominating the session, to the same ideas being repeated over and over again, the possibility of hitting roadblocks is high ...and once the ideas stop flowing, it can be impossible to get back on track.

Packed with real-world, practical guidance, Quick Brainstorming Activities for Busy Managers gives you the tools, exercises, and guidance you need to pave the way toward the kind of innovation and creative solutions your company needs to beat the competition. Filled with fun, proven activities that will enable you to get productive brain­storming sessions started and keep them going, the book shows you how to:

Clarify the purpose of the session · Ask the kind of questions that provoke responses and inspire creativity · React to ideas in a way that encourages participants and prompts more input · Know what to record and what not to record · Sort and categorize lengthy lists · Evaluate ideas · Prioritize the most useful concepts and expand on them · And much more!

You’ll learn how to focus the group, use concepts such as playbacks and prompts, discourage criticism and self-editing, know the right time to take a break, and help your team arrive at outside-the-box, brilliant conclusions by collaborating with each other and building on each other’s ideas.

Truly productive brainstorming sessions are dependent on your ability to create the right environment and let your people’s ideas flow. Containing sample dialogues, as well as resources for virtual team brainstorming, this is the indispensable toolbox of activities you need to keep the energy high, and generate great ideas fast.

Brian Cole Miller is the principal of Working Solutions, Inc., a management training and consulting firm. He is the author of several books including Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers, More Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers, and Keeping Employees Accountable for Results.

About this edition

• Publisher: AMACOM
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0814417922
• ISBN 13: 9780814417928
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208