GAME #58: Brilliant Brainstorming
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Game Categories:
Opener Energizer Communication
Team-building Review Topical
❖ Purpose: To get team members familiar with brainstorming practices and skills.
❖ Time Required: 5 to 10 minutes.
❖ Size of Group: Unlimited, but participants should work in small groups of five or six.
❖ Materials Required: None.
❖ The Exercise in Action: Dottie Kinner, a senior data processing train- ing specialist with USAA (The United States Automobile Association) in San Antonio, TX, asks small groups to pick a four- or five-letter word. Any word will do, she says. Once a word is chosen by each group, Kinner gives them three minutes to create sentences using each letter of their word, in sequence, as the first letter of a word in the sentence. Sentences must have proper structure, but they don’t have to make sense—which adds a few laughs to the exercise. For example, a team might create a sentence from the word MOLD — Moonstruck Oranges Like Drinking. The team creating the most sentences from its one word is awarded a small prize. Kinner encourages teams to pick words relating to the course content. “The exercise gives new teams a chance to develop some synergy and work on brainstorming together,” a skill they’ll certainly need in the future, she says.
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