Memories from the semester
Divergent Tools
Convergent Tools
MISC
Random details from the semester
100

Chelsea's Favorite Tool

What is forced connections

100
  • Generates more challenge questions and stronger challenge questions
  • Reveals assumptions and generates alternative views 
  • Used in formulate the challenge

What is Word Dance

100

When you need to prioritize 10 or less 

USE IN: Converge, Formulate a plan

What is card sort?

100

It refers to the unconscious processing of problems

Giving yourself time to step away from the problem and doing something else, and give you an "AH HA" moment

What is incubation?

100

Idea Time:

Idea Support:

Risk-Taking:

Freedom:

Playfulness/Humor:

Debate:

Conflict:

Challenge:

Trust/Openness:

What is "9 DIMENSIONS OF PRESS"?

200

Made the "finish the drawing" popcorn

Who is Jada?

200

Hear/Learn how stakeholders thinking or feel about their current reality or desired future state in terms of a sequence of events 

USE IN: Exploring the Vision, Gather Data, Formulate Solutions

What is Story Boarding?

200

Helps evaluate whether a goal wish or challenge or opportunity is appropriate for you or your group to address 

USE IN: Generate Ideas, Explore the Vison, Formulate the Challenge

What are the 3I's of Clarify?

Influence, Importance, Imagination

200

You do NOT need _____, but they can be helpful

Fill in the blank

What are tools?

200

Daily Double

Make your wager up to 2,000 points

How many points is your reflection paper worth?

300

Made the "finish the drawing" "little gray man"

Who is Michael?

300

Generates unusual and unexpected ideas 

1. Choose a random object 

2.Ask "When you look at this what ideas come to mind when addressing this challenge" 

Use in Explore Ideas

What is forced connections?

300

Useful when you have a large group of people who need to work together to build consensus and converge on options 

USE IN: All steps of CPS when engaging in Convergent Thinking

What is dot voting or hits?

300
  • Defer judgment*
  • Strive for quantity
  • Seek wild and unusual
  • Build on other ideas

What are divergent guidelines?

300

Blair Millers Wife

She did all of the Foursight videos

Who is Sara Thurber?

400

Daily Double


Make your wager up to 2,000 points

Is very passionate about Cloud 9?

400
  • For more introverted people to communicate their thoughts
  • Allows for change of pace during a loud meeting

 three ideas and write them down, and then pass it to the next person

USE IN: All steps of the CPS when engaging divergent thinking

What is Brain Writing?

400
  • Strengthens or evaluates an ideas
  • Develops ways to overcome an ideas weaknesses
  • Creates motivation by looking at ways to overcome challenges

USE IN: Diverge/ Converge, Explore Ideas

What is PPCo?

Pluses, potentials, concerns, overcoming concerns

400

encourages the generation of many ideas, possibilities and solutions.

What is fluency?

400

"They were lead to believe that factors outside of what they could control was the reason they did well"

Hint: from a video, the same day we learned about mindfulness, and motivation. 

Many of you put it on your index card of something that you studied that wasn't on the jeopardy of that week

What is external locus of control?

500
The whole class is based on this concept.

Hint: it is one of the definitions of creativity 

We look at /learn a new part every week

What are the 4P's?

Person, Process, Product and Press

500
  • Offers versatility for working with groups especially to solve problems
  • Equalizes the room-allowing all group members to give inputs

Write it, Say it, Stick it

All steps of CPS when engaging divergent thinking 


What is Stick 'um up brainstorming?

500

combine existing ideas and create new and unusual ideas

What is orginality?

500

The name of the Improv game we played: Fill in the blank

We start off with a sentence 

"________ Today is a wonderful day to go swimming"

Then the next person takes the last word in the sentence and starts off their sentence with that word and goes.

 "_________ Swimming has been announced the most popular sport in the world"

Then the next person goes 

"__________ World Record holder is now having a baby"

What is "Breaking News"