Brainwriting

Here’s a spin on brainstorming that provides lots of possible solutions to challenges while making space for all the voices in the room.

In one minute, each participant writes a problem, challenge, or question at the top of a piece of paper. Everyone passes that paper in the same direction to the next person. In thirty seconds, everyone writes a potential solution, answer, or resource under that initial problem, along with their name in case the problem writer wants to have a follow up conversation. Pass the papers again. Write answers again. Pass again. Write again. 

You can repeat this as often as you like, but I find groups tend to burn out of ideas after the 10th pass or so. 

Give participants time to seek out and converse with the authors of the answers they like. 

PS: If you’re interested in how brainwriting and other facilitation methods can help you and your team make better decisions, let’s talk. https://calendly.com/brian-lizardbrain/45-min-discovery-call.