The Brainstorm Facilitator Brainstorming Process

by Brendan O'Keefe

1. Set context. Clarify outcomes. Address expectations

2. Determine and Create the environment

3. Establish ground rules and agreements for participation from the group

4. clarify the process

5. Break the ice

6. Invite appreciative inquiry

7. Invite humor and playfulness

8. Tell Stories

9. Identify and transform limiting assumptions

10. Create and explain the brainstorm ground rules

11. Allow for solo brainstorming

12. Rules

12.1. Focus on quantity

12.2. Suspend judgment

12.3. Wild ideas are welcome

12.4. Laugh & play

12.5. Combine and improve ideas

13. Establish criteria for evaluation

13.1. C5

14. Encourage participants to follow their fascination

15. Excursion (time out)

16. Brainstorm in Groups

16.1. Brainslipping

16.2. SCAMPER

16.3. ThinkCube

16.4. ASSumption Buster

16.5. Revesal of Fortune

16.6. Idea Lottery

16.7. Idea Jams

16.8. Stick em Up

16.9. Animal Crackers

16.10. Idea Pilot & Co-Pilot version

16.11. What would Davinci think?

16.12. Crash, Bang, Boom

16.13. Questorming

17. Help you evaluate ideas effectively. Brainstorm Report. Follow-Up

17.1. Synthesis

18. What's Up? - Questorming

19. Idea Management Tools

19.1. SMS Idea Box

19.2. Idea Management Toolbox

19.3. Idea Map

20. Custom Design Determine the team