Brainstorming steps

An effective brainstorm session starts with good preparation:

  1. Define a clear question to tackle in the session
  2. Select a facilitator and variety of people for your team (often teams are a given in the school context)
  3. Create an activity plan for the session
  4. Get all the necessary materials.

During the session itself, you will go through the following steps:

  1. Welcome
  2. Briefing
  3. Diverging
    1. Individual idea generation
    2. Group idea generation and combination
  4. Converging
    1. Idea grouping
    2. Idea selection
  5. Create an action plan

Pro-tip: After converging once, it is often fruitful to go quickly through a final diverging-converging cycle again.