Try Silence During Your Next Remote Brainstorm:
While the whole world is fighting the Corona Virus.
Here is another gem from Harvard Business Review
Research shows that embracing silence during a brainstorm
helps teams produce significantly more — and higher-quality — ideas. Silent
brainstorming can be particularly useful in remote meetings. So what does it
look like in practice?
First, starting with the meeting invite, make sure
everyone understands the goals of the brainstorming session. Then, at the
beginning of your meeting, share a working document (such as a Google Doc) with
key questions that need to be answered. Encourage all participants to contribute
to the document for 10 to 20 minutes without talking. During this time,
attendees can actively ideate and respond to each other in the document. The
leader can also participate, providing direction and asking attendees to
elaborate on specific ideas as they’re being formed.
Once the silent phase of the brainstorm is complete, you
can begin a discussion if your group is relatively small. If the group is
large, you can end the meeting, review the document, and follow up with an
email that shares conclusions and next steps. Or, you might consider sending
out a quick survey where participants can react or vote on options to move
forward.
This tip is adapted from “Break Up Your Big Virtual
Meetings,” by Liana Kreamer and Steven G. Rogelberg
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