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If you want more ideas in your group, generate them without evaluation. Here’s how to do it.

Sometimes a team’s creative results can be improved by offering them a new perspective. Take the process of brainstorming for example. Brainstorm the opposite of what you want and see what happens.

Groups need creativity. It helps them solve problems, develop products, and improve productivity. So how do you put a creative spark into a group that just doesn’t seem to have any creative abilities?

When working with a team to develop a sense of purpose or goals, the power of pictures and imagery can play a useful role. Instead of asking a team to write down what it wants to accomplish, ask people to imagine a better future.

Just because people don’t respond to your request for ideas, doesn’t mean they don’t have any.

When you need some new ideas in your group, try out these techniques.