Brainstorming steps
An effective brainstorm session starts with good preparation:
- Define a clear question to tackle in the session
- Select a facilitator and variety of people for your team (often teams are a given in the school context)
- Create an activity plan for the session
- Get all the necessary materials.
During the session itself, you will go through the following steps:
- Welcome
- Briefing
- Diverging
- Individual idea generation
- Group idea generation and combination
- Converging
- Idea grouping
- Idea selection
- Create an action plan
Pro-tip: After converging once, it is often fruitful to go quickly through a final diverging-converging cycle again.