Quick Brainstorming Activities for Busy Managers: 50 Exercises to Spark Your Team's Creativity and Get Results Fast

by Brian Cole Miller

Filled with clear, concise guidance and quick, easily implemented techniques, Quick Brainstorming Activities for Busy Managers provides supervisors, managers, and team leaders the fun, proven activities they need to get idea-packed brainstorming sessions started, and keep them going. Author Brian Miller helps you explore the most effective brainstorming method for your team and generate the best results using straightforward, focused activities that each take less than fifteen minutes to complete. Readers will discover how ask questions that provoke responses and inspire creativity; react to and record ideas in a way that encourages participation and prompts more input; sort and categorize lengthy lists; evaluate ideas; and prioritize the most useful concepts and expand on them. Contrary to popular opinion, great brainstorming sessions don’t just happen. For brainstorming to be a truly productive activity, leaders must create the right environment to let employees’ ideas flow. Complete with sample dialogues and well as resources for virtual team brainstorming, this indispensable book helps readers guide their teams to generate great ideas.

208 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 18, 2012

About the author

BRIAN COLE MILLER is the principal of Working Solutions, Inc., a management training and consulting firm. He is the author of several books including Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers, More Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers, and Keeping Employees Accountable for Results.

Reviews

[Anna Pfau · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not very helpful. Far too general.

[rhlibrarian · Rating 2 out of 5]

Outdated, but not sure what I expected to happen given the copyright.

[Ariadna73 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not bad. I found a lot of already known tools and one or two I have never heard about. This book is good for those six sigma fans that are always looking for activities in their educational seminars.