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Free brainstorming training in traditional and advanced brainstorming techniques

Also free articles and other valuable resources. This is simply a "must see" site: here are the subject headings on the training page:

Introduction - what is brainstorming?

• History and use of brainstorming
• What are the benefits to you?
• What are the risks?
• A summary of the introduction
• How to do traditional brainstorming
• How to brainstorm
• Rules of brainstorming
• Principles of brainstorming
• Preparing to run a brainstorming session
• Running a brainstorming session
• An summary of traditional brainstorming
• The need for Advanced Brainstorming
• Advanced Brainstorming
• The need for Advanced Brainstorming
• Smoother and better brainstorming
• Single person brainstorming
• Originality of prompts and stimulii
• Infinite availability of prompts and stimulii
• Long term brainstorming and creativity
• Never be stuck for a new idea

Advanced brainstorming

• Introduction to Advanced brainstorming
• What is Creativity and Creative Thinking?
• How do Creative Thinking techniques work?
• Training in all the Creative Thinking techniques
• How to extract new ideas from creative thinking techniques
• How to use creative thinking techniques in brainstorming sessions.
• Advanced brainstorming tools
• Computer aided brainstorming
• Manual brainstorming materials
• Overcoming problems with brainstorming
• Ways to kill or help an idea
• Group related problems
• Difficulties on a personal basis
• Getting new people involved
• How to create a creative environment
• Extra ideas

Mindtools "How to brainstorm"

What is Brainstorming?
Brainstorming is a method for developing creative solutions to problems. It works by focusing on a problem, and then deliberately coming up with as many deliberately unusual solutions as possible and by pushing the ideas as far as possible.

Brainstorming at work

To survive and grow, your organisation needs ideas. You need to be ready to respond to any challenge before your competition. Brainstorming was originally developed as a tool that everyone in an organisation could use to be more effective.

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Leading A Discussion With Nominal Group Technique

People are often anxious about contributing to discussion because they don't want to look stupid in front of the class. The beauty of the nominal group technique is that it short-circuits that fear by soliciting anonymous contributions from everyone.