Thursday 3 July 2014

Ground Rules of Brainstorming

In Indonesia, we are happy to invite people attending a brainstorming meeting. However, mostly the meeting end to hate each other rather than creating an idea. One of the problems is because participant do not understrand the ground rules of brainstorming. When you setup the brainstorming meeting, please make sure you introduces these rules first:

(1) The meeting will mainly concern with quantify the ideas rather than qualify the ideas;
(2) During the meeting there should be no critism of the ideas from anybody (including the chair of the meeting); and
(3) Welcome and open your mind for unusual ideas.

(Thomas, 2013)