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Why Leaders Shouldn’t Lead Brainstorming Sessions

Why Leaders Shouldn’t Lead Brainstorming Sessions

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“A facilitator’s role is to facilitate (from the Latin word meaning “to make easy”) the process whereby brilliance manifests — not use their platform to foist their ideas on others.

In the best of all worlds, brainstorm facilitators wouldn’t be the people who care the most about the topic. They wouldn’t be the content expert, team leader, department head, senior officer, or anyone whose job is described by a three-letter acronym.

There’s a HUGE difference between facilitating and leading a brainstorming session. Leaders get people to follow them. Facilitators get people to follow the yellow brick road of their own imagination.

Here are four classic ways that some brainstorm facilitators manipulate the ideation process. Any of them familiar to you?

1. They verbally judge ideas as they are presented
2. They scribe only the ideas they approve of
3. They spend more time pitching their own ideas than listening to the ideas of others
4. They develop only ideas consistent with their own assumptions”

Stephen

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Posted on: November 27, 2013, 7:00 am Category: Uncategorized

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