Fist to Five is an interesting consensus-building technique to poll team members and come to the best agreement quickly

The storyboarding technique is amazing because your team will be able to see how ideas interact and connect to form a solution

When you reverse brainstorming, you essentially work to create problems rather than solutions and avoid them from the get-go

In Sum of Ideas exercise, participants will have to let their minds free to wonder and create yet undiscovered ideas

Alternate Uses is an exercise to develop creativity and encourage divergent thinking when looking for solutions based on a single idea

Hear Me and Clap is a quick, simple and effective technique for the facilitator to get the attention of his group without shouting

A Zero Draft is focused free writing and is your first attempt to assemble thoughts related to your research topic or question

The Twenty-One Technique is a powerful tool for making decisions based on collective wisdom and is ideal for evaluating multiple ideas

The nominal group technique builds on the brainstorming discussion by including a voting process at the end

Forced connections are based on the brain’s ability to link two disparate items -such as words, objects , feelings, and ideas

The 2H1C Function is a futurospective activity for building a competitive plan based on logical, emotional and determination perspectives

Bright Blurry Blind is a powerful technique for teams to shed light on troubling issues within departments and the organization

The mind spin is an amazing non-traditional brainstorming technique for developing creative thinking, team problem solving

The Word Banking is a fantastic and popular creative thinking technique that involves freely associating words

The starbursting method of brainstorming requires you to think about the who, what, where, when, why, and how for any new idea