Facilitate Creative Meetings and Boost Ongoing Innovation

Teamwork & CooperationChange & AdaptationManagers≈ 20 min

Key skill: Creativity & innovation

Summary

Turn routine meetings into creative sessions where the manager becomes a facilitator of collective intelligence: more cohesion, stronger commitment, and decisions built together.

Target audience

Anyone who facilitates or takes part in meetings.

Learning objectives

Co-decide, co-create, and co-build projects together through highly collaborative, creative meetings.
Bring out the best of collective intelligence by facilitating meetings collaboratively.
Build stronger team commitment to the topics at hand: change, new projects, and more.
Boost your team's motivation and creativity, and strengthen cohesion.

Module outline

ArticlesTime set aside for innovation: the innovation quarter-hour · Got an idea? How to present it to your team · 6-3-5 Brainwriting: a written brainstorming technique for generating ideas as a group
Expert videoThe manager becomes a facilitator, bringing out collective intelligence during creative meetings
AnchoringQuiz and True/False questions to dig deeper into the topic and anchor what you've learned
Memo cardDownloadable memo card: the key points from the expert video
CommitmentConcrete examples to help you define your own commitment
BonusA selection of videos to go further (TED, YouTube)

Models & methods

The innovation quarter-hour; 6-3-5 Brainwriting (and its 8-step online version); the distinction between a chairperson and a facilitator.