The following guidelines are examples of things you can do to facilitate groups of people to be more productive in meetings - and specifically, meetings require creativity and innovation.
1. Design the work...
When designing a process that enhances creativity and innovation think in terms of crafting a set of activities instead of an making an agenda. Agendas are topic or subject focused and most often require working linearly through each topic. Activities are interactive and product focused (see below) and require participants to engage with each other, learn from each other, and create something together.
In our work we've found there are generally six types of activities in creative work:
- activities that orient (to the situation or challenge)
- activities that explore (the territory around the situation or challenge)
- activities that build (models)
- activities that test (models)
- activities that incubate (step away)
- activities that exchange (trade value)
To read the full, original article click on this link: April 2011 Newsletter: Facilitating Creativity in Groups
