Why Leaders Shouldn’t Lead Brainstorming Sessions

Why Leaders Shouldn’t Lead Brainstorming Sessions

http://www.ideachampions.com/weblogs/archives/2014/08/if_you_want_to_1.shtml

“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