Statement Starters
Statement starters are an effective technique for unlocking creativity and freeing your team from restrictive thought patterns. This method involves rephrasing a problem as a solution-oriented question, thereby stimulating inventive thinking. By converting challenges into inquiry-based statements, you empower your team to seek solutions beyond perceived limitations. This process fosters a mindset of possibility rather than confinement, opening up a broad spectrum of potential solutions. It's a great tool to foster innovation and overcome obstacles in creative problem-solving.
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- Select a project, artefact, or topic to be analyzed
- Bring together all participants and collaborators
- Explain the topic of discussion
- Identify a problem or opportunity to address
- Rewrite it as a statement
- Add a “starter” to the beginning of each statement and turn in into a question:
- “How might we….?”
- “How do we….?”
- “How does someone….?”
- Pick the best statement for each opportunity
- Use this phrase to begin ideating potential solutions
- Capture and discuss the ideas generated.
- Encourages brainstorming and idea generation
- Promotes open-ended and creative thinking
- Facilitates problem-solving discussions
- Compare multiple potential solutions to the same problem
- Challenges your assumptions
- Pose prompts that are open-ended to encourage diverse ideas
- Encourage all participants to contribute ideas
- Use this method as a warm-up for brainstorming sessions
- Follow up methods: Round Robin, Visualize the vote
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