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Brainstorming Training Materials - Trainer Notes
Brainstorming Training Materials - Trainer Notes
Brainstorming Training Materials - Trainer Notes
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Brainstorming Training Materials - Workbook
Brainstorming Training Materials - Workbook
Brainstorming Training Materials - Workbook

Brainstorming Training Materials

Built around simulated practice, this trainer-ready package of fully editable brainstorming training materials equips trainers to deliver a highly practical one-day workshop. Participants explore the six stages of brainstorming, facilitation best practice, thinking styles, idea generation and evaluation, groupthink and lateral thinking while practising a selection of more than 20 brainstorming techniques.

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Format: Fully Editable Word & PowerPoint

Delivery: Instant Download & Ready to Use

Licence: Reusable for Unlimited Workshops

Trainer Friendly: Comprehensive Trainer Notes

Prerequisites: None

Product Code: BR2038

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Skills Converged customers include the NHS, Adidas, the BBC, BMW and Etihad Airways and many universities. Our training materials are used in more than 100 countries.

Course Duration: 1 Day

Course Level: Beginner Intermediate

Category: Management Training
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Course Materials Brainstorming

Key Topics Covered in the Brainstorming Course

  • Principles of brainstorming and deliberate creativity
  • Best-practice guidelines for productive brainstorming sessions
  • Six stages of a structured brainstorming event
  • Creative warm-ups and different styles of thinking
  • Facilitation, idea generation, evaluation and prioritisation
  • Challenging behaviour, groupthink, negativity and fear of judgement
  • Lateral thinking and systematic creativity
  • More than 20 established brainstorming techniques


What Participants Will Learn

By the end of this course participants will be able to:

  • Apply established brainstorming guidelines to unlock individual and group creativity.
  • Facilitate the six stages of brainstorming from initial preparation through to evaluation and decision-making.
  • Warm up participants effectively and prepare them to generate ideas freely.
  • Accommodate different thinking styles so a wider range of participants can contribute productively.
  • Manage challenging behaviour and groupthink while reducing negativity and fear of judgement.
  • Separate idea generation from evaluation before prioritising options and selecting suitable ideas.
  • Use lateral-thinking methods systematically to produce more varied and original possibilities.
  • Select and facilitate appropriate brainstorming techniques for different problems, groups and desired outcomes.

What Is Included

Everything you need to run the course:

  • Slides
  • Trainer Notes
  • Workbook
  • Exercises
  • Handouts
  • Specific Course Guidelines
  • Agenda and Course Outline
  • Training Methodology Guidelines
  • Feedback Forms
  • Certificate of Achievement
  • Recommended Readings

Bonus ebook included: How to Increase the Impact of Exercises and Get the Best Results

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Detailed Syllabus for the Brainstorming Course

Have you ever arranged for a team to attend a problem solving meeting or to come up with new ideas? What did you think of these sessions? Did it prove to be a waste of time? Were people frustrated that they could not express themselves? Did some people dominate the meeting with their ideas and personalities? Did you feel that the group had the potential to achieve a lot more, yet the meeting was highly unproductive because it had no structure? Ever wondered what you could do to systematically improve such meetings? This course aims to address that. It is applicable to all businesses and is ideal for anyone who wants to run a successful brainstorming session and get results.

The future belongs to the creative mind and those teams that can master the skill of creativity and come up with more interesting ideas in a given time are bound to be more successful than others. Fortunately, team creativity is a process. The right brainstorming techniques can significantly help to boost a team’s creative output.

Delegates will learn about best practice guidelines on running brainstorming events and how to go through the main six stages. They will learn about facilitation skills, idea generation and evaluation, prioritisation and decision making. Delegates will also learn about handling challenges and issues that are commonly observed when a diverse group of people want to work together to solve problems or come up with new ideas. The nature of creativity is explored in this course and it also includes details on specific tools used by the creative industry to help with brainstorming.

This package contains more than 20 brainstorming techniques provided as separate handouts. Delegates get to go through these techniques in simulated exercises to learn how to conduct them.

The main focus of this course is on brainstorming though ideally you should also consider the companion course Facilitation Skills to train delegates further on this skill.

In this highly practical course delegates will learn:

 

What Is Brainstorming?

  • What leads to creativity?
  • What are best practice guidelines when running a brainstorming session?
  • What is deliberate creativity?

 

Running a Brainstorming Event

  • What are the six stages of a typical brainstorming session?
  • How to warm-up participants before the main brainstorming event to fire up their creativity?
  • What are various styles of thinking and how can this affect a brainstorming session?

 

Challenges to Brainstorming

  • How can participants be challenging to the process of brainstorming?
  • What strategies would help to handle such challenging behaviours?
  • What is groupthink and how would you address it?
  • How can you minimise negativity or being judged?

 

How to Be Creative

  • Are you born creative?
  • Can you learn creativity like a skill?
  • What is lateral thinking?
  • How can you become an idea machine?
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Fully Editable

Customise the content, add your branding and combine it with your own materials. Supplied in editable DOCX and PPTX formats

Reusable

Reprint participant workbooks as often as required.

Complete Training Kit

A coordinated collection of trainer and participant resources that include slides, trainer notes, workbook, exercises and supporting documents such as printable certificates and feedback forms.

Research-Informed

Content and design informed by educational psychology, behavioural science and business practice.

Trainer-Ready

Includes detailed guidance to help you prepare and deliver the course confidently. We specialise in training trainers, so our course materials are designed around methods that work in real-world training delivery.

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Examples, case studies and exercises support practice, engagement and long-term retention.

About the Design Philosophy of Brainstorming Course

Conducting a brainstorming session is a very hands-on skill and as a result it is useful to practice running such sessions in a simulated setting. This course is primarily designed with this in mind and is slightly different from our standard courses. Several sessions are provided to inform the delegates on best practice guidelines, how to go through various stages and how to manage people. In addition to this, more than 20 brainstorming techniques are also provided. The collection also includes a few brainstorming technique we have already published on our site which are considered important to share with participants. By including them, you can find all the techniques in one place and with one format. This makes it is easy to provide them as handouts to your delegates. The package also includes many techniques that are unique to this course only and which have not been published on our site or in any of our other courses.

There are two time slots in the course where delegates get to go through simulated exercises to practice facilitating a group using a chosen brainstorming technique. Other delegates will roleplay as participants, learning the technique but also are giving an opportunity to see how it feels to go through the technique as a facilitator.

Overall, the course is heavily exercise-driven as this is the best way delegates can learn how to run a brainstorming meeting. Comprehensive instructions are provided on how to go through various parts of the course so delegates get the most from it.

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