Coaching practices for 6 3 5 Brainwriting Method

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• In our group sessions I have a thought, but by the time it’s finally my turn to say it out loud it’s slipped away
• Every time we get the team in a room to brainstorm, the loudest two people steer it and everyone else goes quiet
• Every time I try to brainstorm, the critic and the dreamer are talking over each other
• We fill the whiteboard with dozens of ideas, the energy is great
• On my own I only know so much about each piece of this, and when the team brainstorms together the loudest first idea anchors everyone

Practices that may help

1. Use brainwriting to defeat production blocking
   Have everyone write ideas silently at the same time, then share — this is the group brainstorm that research actually supports.
   Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical
2. Brainwrite instead of group brainstorm
   Have people generate ideas silently and individually first, then pool and build.
   Divergent Thinking: Generating Many Ideas
3. Separate divergence from convergence sessions
   Keep idea generation and idea selection in separate sittings — never mix the modes.
   Quantity Over Quality: How More Drafts Produce Better Work
4. Harvest and cluster ideas after the session
   The generation phase is worthless without a systematic harvest: sort, name, and prioritize the output.
   Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical
5. Run a structured team morphological session
   The method is most powerful when multiple perspectives populate the dimensions and values.
   Morphological Analysis, Made Practical
6. Use mind maps for brainstorming, not verbatim recording
   Use mind mapping for open-ended idea generation and creative exploration — switch to linear formats for structured information capture.
   Mind Mapping: Visual Thinking for Learning and Creativity
7. Defer judgment during ideation
   Separate generating ideas from evaluating them — criticism comes later, never during.
   Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical
8. Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical
   Alex Osborn’s 1953 rules — defer judgment, go for quantity, combine ideas, and welcome wild ideas — were designed to suppress the social inhibition that kills idea-generation in groups. The rules themselves target a real problem, but controlled research consistently finds that nominal groups (people brainstorming alone then pooling) outperform interacting groups; the rules work best when combined with individual idea generation first.
9. Defer all judgment during ideation
   Separate the generating phase from the evaluating phase — they cannot run simultaneously without killing output.
   Creative Confidence, Made Practical
10. Six Thinking Hats, Made Practical
    Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats assigns six distinct thinking modes — facts, emotions, risks, optimism, creativity, and process — to six metaphorical colored hats, so that everyone in a group (or a single thinker) focuses on one mode at a time rather than arguing from mixed positions. Evidence for the specific technique comes largely from organizational case studies; the underlying principle of parallel versus adversarial thinking has support in group cognition research.

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