You need minds around you that never run out of ideas to create countless possibilities and opportunities for you to grow, whether it is your personal growth or your business growth; being around creative minds always helps you grow as an individual.
Your business needs people with tonnes of ideas to grow and create many opportunities for your business in the market.
Businesses are conducting brainstorming activities to get new ideas and create opportunities in the market in this competitive digital era to grow.
With the help of brainstorming activities, your staff can help you get tonnes of ideas to expand your business and create endless opportunities for your business.
You need to ensure that you conduct brainstorming activities from time to time to make your staff never run out of ideas and improve their personal brainstorming abilities to the next level, which makes your business grow beyond its limits.
You must need to create new ideas by brainstorming group activities with your staff to create more amazing opportunities for your business.
Brainstorming activities
10 Powerful Brain Storming Activities to do at your Workplace:
1. Brain Writing:
In this exercise, your team will write about their thoughts on any specific business topic now; everyone will pass that paper to the other person sitting next to them (you can do it clockwise or anti-clockwise, whatever you like). The next person will add bullet points and their thoughts into the piece they got, and it will run around the circle.
If you have the remote team, you can do this with skype or slack to do this exercise and get tonnes of ideas out of this brainstorming exercise.
2. Rapid Ideation:
In this activity, you need to set a time limit, and everyone has to share their ideas and thoughts by writing them down on a piece of paper within the time limit.
This exercise will help you learn about the ideas that first come into your staff’s mind because of the time limit.
Not having a time limit makes people eliminate their first thought to share with the group of people.
This way, you will learn about new and fresh ideas and thoughts of your staff on a specific topic.
3. Figure Storming:
In this activity, people will choose any famous public figure/fictional character that is not in the room and discuss how that person will solve a specific problem or his thoughts on the problems/issues we have.
For example: Take the example of Elon Musk and Harvey Spectre
How would Elon Musk avoid secure his business data? Or What would Harvey Spectre do if his company gets threatened by anonymous hackers?
This will help you create multiple solutions for any specific problems and further your company’s growth.
4. Eidetic Image Method:
Author and psychologist Jaquelin Sussman introduces this visualization-based activity.
In this activity, tell your staff to close their eyes and now tell them to visualize creating the best smartphone, house, bike, car, etc.
For example, tell them to visualize how they would make the best car in their mind..
Now tell them to add design, features, speed, and whatever they think is necessary for their ideal car.
This will help your staff to expand their thoughts and ideas, which will help them to grow beyond their limits.
5. Online Brain Storming, Aka Brain Netting:
For this brainstorming activity, all you need is a platform like slack or google to provide a medium where all of your staff can share their thoughts and ideas with each other and later analyze which ideas and thoughts they need to implement to grow better.
However, it is important to follow up and start a conversation to analyze thoughts and ideas after everyone is done writing it.
Especially for remote workers, this exercise will help them to participate and connect with their staff and engage with team members for the right reasons to ensure the growth of your business.
6. Round Robin Brain Storming:
Round-robin brainstorming activity is something that is very easy but quite effective where everyone is invited, and everyone has to share their ideas and thoughts about a specific topic by following two simple rules.
- we have to listen to everyone’s first idea and thought before jumping to second thoughts or idea.
- No one can say that idea I was going to talk about has already been said.
Give 15-20 minutes before meeting to the group so that everyone can think of creative, unique ideas and thoughts.
7. Step Ladder Technique:
In this technique, you have to explain the problem to the first two people and make them discuss it; when their discussion comes to any conclusion, you can invite a third person to join the group and discuss the problem and come to conclusion.
Now, you have to invite a fourth and fifth person to join the discussion and build the ladder to learn about more ideas.
Those who are not in the discussion can talk to each other outside or get back to work until they get the chance to join the conversation.
If your team is big, you can choose a small team to perform this type of brainstorming activity.
8. Mind Mapping:
In this activity, participants will create a mind map infographic with subtopics and bullet points of the main topic and create a map of it in their minds.
The mind-mapping exercise is good for those who think visually because they can do mind-mapping more effectively.
You can generate your ideas and subtopics, bullet points around your main topic, and create a good infographic in your mind. Also, you can draw an infographic of it if you want.
9. Start Bursting:
Starbursting activity is considered when you want to start implementing one of the ideas from your brainstorming sessions.
In this activity, participants will think about what challenges they encounter by implementing that idea and the possible ways to overcome those challenges.
This way, you will get all your five Ws, and one H answered. You will also learn from a different perspective how to overcome all the challenges and successfully implement that idea for your business.
10. Change of Scenery:
The brainstorming sessions may get monotonous and uninspired if a team frequently meets in the same room with the same individuals. Even for a short while, a brand-new environment might provide a change of scenery that can inspire individuals to develop novel ideas.
Changing the place for your brainstorming exercises lets you get new thoughts and ideas from the same participants.
