The Miracle Question with Corporate Teams
At the end of day 3 we were all losing patience and we felt it was hopeless…so I tried the following version of the Miracle Question.
Current Method Better Way Matrix Team Building Activity
The Current Method / Better Way Matrix is a team tool that can stretch peoples minds and assumptions to Enable Innovation and create a comfort level that allows for breakthrough ideas to happen.
Start looking for Exceptions
There is a false belief that the actions and behaviors we see in the present have always happened, and that they must continue. While problems are important and must be acknowledged, the more effective focus is to determine the solution – what we want to have happen. This happens through a solution focused process of looking for exceptions and finding already existing small steps to take.
Do I Have to Come up With All The Great Ideas!? Why this belief means you suck as a manager
The minute you think that no-one has any great ideas or believe that you have to be the hero is when you are blind to your own negative reinforcement of people.
Thinking Differently Enabling Innovation Workshop Presentation
Competitive demands require quicker, more effective and innovative problem solving. Problem solvers are required to quickly provide solutions to increasingly complex problems, develop and design new and innovative products and processes – all while reducing research and development time and costs.
Solution Finding Stimulus 1 small win then evaluate what worked
All that is needed is one small step towards your solution. Once you take that step how will you evaluate success?
Solution Finding Stimulus Where are you? How do you Know?
On a scale of 0 – 10. With 0 being you have some idea what to do, and 10 being you know exactly what to do – where are you on this scale? How do you know?
All Good Solutions Are Obvious in Hindsight
Great Team Building is recognizing that all good solutions have one thing in common – they are obvious, but only in hindsight.
Change in Companies and Teams is Not Only Possible it is Inevitable
If a team seems un-movable, don’t just push harder and scream about how obstinate they are being…resistance is futile. Use the inevitability of change to slightly shift their shared perception from stuck to change.
MindSpin Team Building Activity for Brainstorming and Solution-Finding
Working with a corporate team to identify new product and service ideas, we quickly found the team falling victim to group-think. Following a short break, the people returned to find stacks of index cards at their table and the MindSpin guidelines on a Flip Chart.