Exercises for Ideation Warm-Ups & Brainstorming
Short structured prompts push a group to generate many possible ideas quickly, before narrowing to a direction, using techniques like forced connections or rapid listing. Reach for one right before a brainstorm or design session to loosen up thinking.
This category groups exercises by shared theme, based on what the exercise actually asks people to do.
232 exercises
Awestruck 3 Minutes
How Might We…
Skill Will Matrix • WorkshopBank
Image brainstorming - Project of How
SCAMPER • WorkshopBank
Personal Buzzfeed
12-3 Brainstorm
Random words! - Project of How
Idea boxes
Creative Problem Solving • WorkshopBank
Idea Speed Dating - Project of How
50 Word Epiphany
Use Your Amygdala
The Emperor’s Thumb
Serial Jolts
Exercises - Page 2 - Project of How
15% Solutions • WorkshopBank
7Ps Framework
Responses to NO
Phone Stacking
Synesthesia
TIME WASTERS
Place Your Bets
Divergent Thinking - Mind Map Style
Obama Argue it Out
Hot Potato Tags Timing
Cups and Straws
Brain shifter - Project of How
Q Test
Business Books
Twenty-Two Habits for Better Creativity
Prediction Markets
TGM: March 2006
brainstorming - Project of How
idea generating - Project of How
Team Role Development • WorkshopBank
Image-ination
Drawing for Success - Toast
Silence - Netflix Style
Concerns in a Hat
Impromptu Networking
Generate ideas - Page 2 - Project of How
Pecha Kucha
One Word Whip
Backchannel Screen
The Relationship Start-up
Fishbowl
Crazy 8s
Brainwriting
idea volume - Project of How
Ideas marketplace
Metaphors
People Science Phone-A-Friend
6 Building and Shifting the Discourse
8 Practicing Deliberation with Others
Phillips 6/6
Restart Your Morning
Elephant in the Room
I Like, I Wish, I Wonder
say yes! - Project of How
Plus/Delta
4 Markers for Your Odds
Build The Checklist
Too Fast Too Slow
3 Seeking Innovation
Braindrawing - Project of How
Nippon! - Project of How
Jeffersonian Meals
Sound for the Source
Random Inputs
The Pitch
Triangles
New Personality Research
Situationist Drift
Hackman’s Five-Factor Model Workshop • WorkshopBank
auditory - Project of How
Concept Route
PFP: July 2002
Walk in the Door - Big Share
Porter's Five Forces • WorkshopBank
Affinity diagram
Rain Maker
Feedback - Plus/Delta
Idea Storm
Speed Networking People Science Style
Luck in an Envelope
One Simple Post-It for Success
TRIADS
Feel or Be in AWE
Mandela Strategies
Crazy 8
Big Solutions in a Box Walk
Action Needed: Issue, Challenge, Idea, Purpose, Timing
Anticipating Challenges
101+ Group Line-Up Strategy Ideas - Fun Ways To Form Group Lines
Quick Share Experiments
Air Time Mastermind
dance - Project of How
TIME SAVERS
Point to Present
8 Encouraging Bold Imagination
WhoDo
The Kipling method - Project of How
Product Pinocchio
Curiosity Quotient
Growth Mindset Workshop • WorkshopBank
Round Robin • WorkshopBank
Brainstorming
Quick Team-Building Exercise For Connection - Lumberjack Stack
Urban Sketching
Gamestorming
Pixar Critique Sessions
Whip Around - The Teacher Toolkit
Structure projects - Project of How
Brainwriting • WorkshopBank
The Sunset
Interactive Partner Energiser to Build Quick Thinking - Your Add
TGL: July 2009
Smarter Faster Better Workshop • WorkshopBank
Radical Candor Workshop • WorkshopBank
Affinity Frame
Peacock Focus
Walk About
3-1 - The Teacher Toolkit
Saturate and Group
App Kick-Off - Long Term Digital Connections
Creative Icebreaker Activity for Building Imagination - If Then
poster - Project of How
Reverse Brainstorming • WorkshopBank
Minute Ideas
small groups - Project of How
build on ideas - Project of How
Mask Making
visualization - Project of How
Prune The Future
concept structure - Project of How
Switch it brainstorm - Project of How
create - Project of How
25/10 Crowd Sourcing • WorkshopBank
development - Project of How
Black Swan Workshop • WorkshopBank
The Fish Bowl
Min Specs • WorkshopBank
C.I.A. (Crazy Idea Brainstorm) - Project of How
Draw Your Feelings
Read Weirdly Widely
What’s in Your Toolkit
Visualize it! - Project of How
Lo Tech Social Network at TEDx Austin
Group dynamics - Project of How
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