Power Tools and Courses
Free Facilitation Tools
Tools to Generate Many Ideas and Solutions (Divergent)
Brainstorming
Use post-its to have everyone write ideas simultaneously to generate ideas.
Design Thinking
Use different approaches as you work from your goal to your implemented solution.
Perspectives in Practice
Use different perspectives to look at the situation from new viewpoints.
Brainwriting
Use this technique to build on options in silence, in which people silently build upon others’ ideas.
Mindmapping
Help describe the terrain of a complex challenge by drawing visual connections.
SCAMPER
Jumpstart your idea generation efforts using this handy list of categories.
Assisters & Resisters
Seek help where you can get it, and plan for resistance before you encounter it.
Forced Connections
Break free of rational limits by introducing outside elements to generate new ideas.
Why? What's Stopping You?
Get broader strategies and specific tasks through laddering.
Question Starters
Use these question starters to help Clarify the Challenge.
Tools to Select and Strengthen the Best Ideas and Solutions (Convergent)
Highlighting
Use to organize options that need to be clustered and synthesized.
Star
Use to converge many options quickly.
Card Sort
Use this easy way to rank options, sorting by best and worst.
Evaluation Matrix
Use to evaluate and strengthen options based on criteria.
POINt
Systematically explore Pluses, Opportunities, Issues and New thinking.
Design Thinking Questions
Use these questions to improve your prototypes.
Set of Tools Also Available for Purchase
Innovation for Results Tool Cards (Set of 15)
A robust selection of hands-on tool cards detailing divergent and convergent thinking techniques.
$24.95
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