Brainstorming: the key to collective creativity

Training Theme

This hands-on training gives you the keys to organize and facilitate productive brainstorming sessions. You will discover how to prepare the session with a well-defined request and the right people, stimulate creativity through ice breakers, apply the DREAM rules, and use different techniques of idea production (animated, individualized or scrolling). The training also addresses remote brainstorming with collaborative tools and ends with the crucial phase of selecting the best ideas to put into action.

Training Objectives

In this online course, you will learn how to:

• Write the right application before you start brainstorming.
• Choose the right people to invite for productive collective brainstorming.
• Open channels for expression and creativity using icebreakers.
• Formalize the brainstorming rules, especially the 5 DREAM rules.
• Lead the idea generation phase using Animated Production, Individualized Production, or Rolling Production.
• Categorize, filter, and select feasible solutions.
• Validate the most interesting ideas as a group.

Target Audience 

Anyone in a situation of conducting or participating in meetings.

Training Content 

This module contains 4 parts:

DISCOVER

• Identify your personal challenges and motivations for change.

SHAKING UP

• List of possible topics for brainstorming
• Storytelling: Video "The annual brainstorming of Ideopolis", 2'09
  • An illustration of the Festival du Remue-Méninges where residents find innovative solutions for the collective well-being
• Quizzes

LEARN

• Expert video: Facilitating a brainstorming session, 11'14
  • Key steps to prepare, facilitate, and operate effective brainstorming
• List of online tools for remote brainstorming (Miro, MindMeister, Stormboard, Padlet, Google Jamboard, Klaxoon)
• Quiz and TRUE/FALSE

ANCHOR

• Original ice breakers: examples of icebreaker questions
• Tip for managing groups that don't know each other
• Use concrete examples to define your own commitment to change.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• Downloadable documents:
  • Coaching memo sheet (PDF)