Group Technique –
10-20 minutes
This technique uses a specific approach to get the participants to
recast the `how to' statement that is used to initialize the process. As
such, it only works as a second phase of question development rather
than in generating an initial question.
Begin by asking the members of the group to produce at least one
restatement each of the problem that uses none of the nouns, verbs or
adjectives in the original and that, ideally, has a radically different
slant on the problem. These restatements can be collected by asking for
them and listing them on the flipchart, or by giving flipchart paper to
the group and ask them to write up their own with four or five people
sharing a sheet. The first works best with small groups and has the
advantage of everyone hearing everyone else's restatement. The second is
more efficient when the group is large, but it does require you to allow
time for perusal of the results.
This is a very simple technique and may seem like a statement of the
obvious when you start. It is worth emphasizing the requirement for a
radically different slant and stressing the strength that this will add
to the final outcome. Despite being very basic, this works remarkably
well as a way of broadening the range of questions being attacked. You
will find a high degree of overlap in the `how to' statements generated
and you may want to remove duplications. If you do, make sure the group
buy into this as they may see subtle differences between statements that
look identical to you.
You can obviously vary how long you spend and how you collect the
output, but the basic technique doesn't lend itself to significant
change.
Creativity
requires spending time "doing nothing" - workaholism guarantees its
death
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