30 second tip(s) to promote creative thinking
Talk to anyone in business about running a training session for two days and one of the most frequent responses is, can you do it in 1 day? half a day? 2 hours? So in acknowledgement to the time and resource pressures folks are in these days, I will be sharing tips for what every manager, employee or leader can do in 30 seconds or less (yes, okay I admit some might take up to 1 minute) to promote creative thinking in their team, group or organization. Ready or not here we go.
THINKING TIP # 1
When phased with a problem, rephrase it using the question starter, "How to?" or "How might?"
For example,
Problem: We don’t have enough money for this project.
RePhrase it as "How might we get enough money for this project?"
Problem: We need more business leads.
Rephrase: "How to get new business leads?"
When you ask yourself or others an open ended question, the human brain can’t help but try to answer it?
Try it and see for yourself!
Posted: March 19th, 2009 under shananigans.
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