Overcoming Adversity Makes You STRONGER
I thought I would throw in this subject and title as inspiraton. To be a little convtroversal and give you all something to think about. You’re going to have something to say on this matter, whether you’ve experienced struggles of your own or just don’t believe you can learn anything from the experience of hard times.
Whichever side of the fence you’re on, its a subject that you can probably write about from experience or develop with your imagination.
The subject may have a strong meaning to others around you with experience of conflict in their lives. Whether going through a problem now or needing hope that things can eventually work for the better.
Now you’re going to find below some helpful ideas for your own brainstorming.
- Storyboarding
- Mind Mapping
- Group Sketching
- Word Banking
- S.C.A.M.P.E.R.
- S.W.O.T. Analysis
- Six Thinking Hats
- Zero Draft
- Brain Netting
- Questioning Assumptions
- Wishing
- Alter-Egos / Heroes
- Forced Connections
- Reverse Brainstorming
- Brain-Writing
Visual Activities
1. Storyboarding
If you’re trying to design a process, storyboarding can help you see where your collective understanding of a problem supports or conflicts with a proposed solution, and where more thought/research is needed. By developing a visual story to explore the problem at hand as a narrative, your team will be able to see how ideas interact and connect to form a solution.
Sticky notes are your friend. Take a few minutes to have everyone on the team write out their ideas as individual notes. These don’t have to be complete thoughts — physically pinning up quotes, pictures, user info, and the like can help you see new relationships between different components.
Once you have a group of sticky notes to work from, start arranging them on the board as a progression: first this, then that. Organizing your ideas as a continuous series will help you see new connections and eliminate extraneous material that doesn’t support your end goal.
2. Mind Mapping
Mind mapping is a fairly common term nowadays — in fact, many types of software provide automated mind-mapping templates so you can better organize your data. Well, it also happens to be a great way to organize your ideas.
- To create a mind map for creativity purposes, write down the task or problem you’re trying to solve at the center of your idea sheet (feel free to do this on your computer, but whiteboards are ideal).
- Then, expand on this problem by surrounding it with terms that better describe what you need. If your problem is low website traffic, for example, some terms to write around this phrase might be “organic traffic,” “trusted content,” “SEO,” and “video strategy.”
- Once your mind map has this first layer, add a second layer to each of your needs describing how you might be able to solve for these individual challenges. Around “SEO,” you might write “topic clusters,” “dedicated SEO strategist,” and “video marketing course.”
Keep adding to your mind map using the steps above until you’ve sufficiently broken down your problem into manageable parts. It’s a fantastic problem-solving technique that fosters creative answers to subjects that might otherwise seem uninspiring.
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