6 Healthy Brainstorming Techniques
Every great idea starts with a single thought which leads to another and another and then a million more!
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What is brainstorming:
Brainstorming is a technique to generate ideas for solving problems, both personal and in professional group meetings.
Brainstorming is a technique that encourages you to come up with as many ideas as possible quickly, without worrying about being wrong or judged. It works best in groups, since the pressure to come up with ideas is divided among the members. It can also be used to solve problems on one's own.
A common mistake students make when brainstorming is to stop after writing down only a few ideas. This is not brainstorming. Brainstorming is a technique that should be used to get as many ideas as possible, as quickly as possible. The words many and quickly are important. As the word storm suggests, it should have much energy and power, leading to a flood of ideas.
Brainstorming Concept discovered by Alex F. Osborn: The Father of Brainstorming. Alex Faickney Osborn (May 24, 1888 – May 5, 1966) was an American advertising executive and the author of the creativity technique named brainstorming.
6 Healthy Brainstorming Techniques
1. Starbursting
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-Albert Einstein
Have you heard the Questioning the problem can be a half way of a solving any problem.
The Starbursting technique is the same procedure as seen in the picture, which involves asking questions about a particular problem.
How you do Starbursting
STEP 1
Starbursting technique is about finding the answers of questions to solve the problem or getting the clear idea.
STEP 2
Place your idea or problem in the center of the triangle. Then, start putting questions at each edge of the triangle and answer each one.
2. Mind Mapping
Did you know that our brains are wired to make connections, and 80% of all learnings comes from our eyes, the information we pick up the most comes from our eyes.
It means the Visualization can increase the chances to remember the information for long time. Mind Map technique is best choice to visualize the information and most importantly how different facts, ideas and Information are related.
How to make a Mind Map
Have piece of paper
Place your problem or idea in the center and draw a circle around it.
Now start connecting circles and ideas together by adding branches with new parts such with subheading, Important facts or tasks that relate to your subject.
In mean while whichever thing comes into mind relating to your subject. Put out then link these to the relevant subheadings as well.
You will soon realize there are so many different ways to see same information.
Mind Mapping dramatically boost the creativity. Because you can now connect the ideas to create the new ways to look at the old problem. If you are student Mind Mapping is the perfect tool to remember the information. this is because mind likes to remember visualizing as well.
Mind Mapping Software
Internet is filled with many Mind Mapping Software to help you break down large projects of difficult topics into much more manageable and praised chunks.
Here are the best tool are recommended to start your mind mapping.
Edrawmind
Miro
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
-Linus Pauling
3. Rolestorming
The Rolestorming technique encourage idea sharing and helpful to view things with a new perspective.
To get most out of this technique you must in a shoe of a person which indicates you best insights of a current problem.
Asking a question like How does this person react into this kind of situation? or How would this person solve problems? help you get idea of play a good to solve the your problems.
Start your role-storming without being hesitant to be wrong.
Make sure to record your ideas for future references.
For example a Marketing team can get good insights of problems might be facing a customer to the choose their company product then competitor’s product.
Role-storming Method is very effective to find out the hidden issues faced by customer which might be causing low sell. By using this method one participant will play a role of a customer and will go thought whole product purchase procedure. After completing procedure will review the experience.
4. Rapid Ideation
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The books I like to read the most feel like they’ve been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.
-Patrick Ness
Rapid Ideation gives sense of urgency, A feeling that a matter is pressing and needs to be completed as soon as possible.
This method will require you to set a time limit to write down ideas on sheet of paper. It gives a chance to submit their all ideas without being easily distracted and the amount of productivity will increase rapidly.
There could be bundle of ideas or seeds of ideas remain silent in your mind. It only need a spark.
Millions of ideas vanished before it even implication, this method may give you an opportunity to Implement on the great idea by just writing it down. Having a knowledge is not enough we must apply and willing is not enough we must do an Action.
Without a Sense of Urgency. Desire loses its Value.
-Jim Rohn
5. Reverse Brainstorming
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Imagine you are bank manager and you want to keep your bank safe as much possible, So you gave a task to your employees to break the security without being caught. This is little bit dramatic but it give you exact image of Reverse Brainstorming. In order to solve the problem, It aimed to cause the problem.
Convert your words by starting a first question “How can we make [Problem] happen?” by Imagining that kind of situation. You can get exact spot or issues idea which needs to be consider.
Reverse Brainstorming questions are intentionally aim to make problems. Which can later being solve by observing the whole scenario.
6. Random word Picker
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Have you played word game in English Lessons?
It used to make story keep going by using random words picked by each member one by one.
In Random word picker technique each member try to continue the story or the conversion going on by using a random word comes in mind.
Random word picker can be used many ways and situation. It’s a fun activity to bounce enjoyment on language learning process.
Random word picker is good to develop the brain muscles which help you be come up with a different solution of different problems.