
About a month ago Ideachampions.com posted a great article on brainstorming.
Quite rightly they recognised the importance of the facilitator in determining the success of a brainstorming session. Really helpfully they identified the different personas that a great facilitator will need to master.
Want to take your brainstorming session to the next level? Have a look at this list and see where you could improve:
- Conductor – helps everyone in the room play their part
- Alchemist – finds gold even when it just looks like lead
- Dancer – flexible and able to change direction skilfully
- Mad scientist – tries the crazy thing
- Diamond cutter – gets to the core without loosing value
- Actor – fully into the role, enabling others to engage
- Environmentalist – passionate about recycling any idea, even apparently irrelevant or bad ones
- Office of the law – enforces the boundaries in order to keep everyone free
- Servant – does not use the session as a platform for their ideas
- Stand-up comic – helps create the right atmosphere and releases some great ideas
Why not head over to Idea Champions for the original article.