Feel your meetings are just not getting anywhere?
Want results?
Want creativity?
Here are 3 Kick Ass Ideas To Get That Team Meeting Working!
1. What Might Have Happened If....
Conjuring up what might have been gives a powerful boost to creativity. Markman et al. (2007) found that using counterfactuals (what might have happened but didn't) sometimes doubled people's creativity.
Here's What you need to do: - Go through what went wrong and at every stage, use 'What If' to get the team discussing about options. What If, we had answered that phone call on time? What If we had that information with us? What If... - Go the other route.
Go through what has gone right and make team think about 'What If' that had not happened.
2. Bring All Your Problems Together
People solve many problems analogically: by recalling a similar old one and applying the same, or similar solution. Unfortunately studies have found that people are poor at recalling similar problems they've already solved. In a counter-intuitive study, however, Kurtz and Lowenstein (2007) found that having two problems rather than one made it more likely that participants would recall problems they'd solved before, which helped them solve the current problem.
This is such a new find, I am still not sure this might work! If all the problems are brought together, there just might be a loss of confidence. Too much negativity, etc. But there is a way out. Get all the related problems out. Dont focus on the one thing that went wrong, try and add upto 3 - 5 other problems to the one you are trying to solve.
You can even use step 1 as an option.
3. Start A Fight!
According to research by Dreu and Nijstad (2008), they found that when in conflict people engaged more with a problem and generated more original ways of arguing.
There is your license to start a fight! Get the team together and go for each other's throats!
Have a Powerful Team Meeting!
Prabhjot Bedi
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Prabhjot Bedi is an independent executive coach. call him on +91 98720 00604 or write to him at mail@prabhjotbedi.com for anything you think is keeping you from fulfilling your potential.
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