Coaching practices for Equal Contribution Ideation

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• I treat every idea on my list as its own separate thing, judging each one solo, and it never occurs to me to mash two of them together
• Every time we get the team in a room to brainstorm, the loudest two people steer it and everyone else goes quiet
• Our brainstorms always get hijacked by the same two loud, senior voices while the quieter people
• Every time I try to brainstorm, the critic and the dreamer are talking over each other
• 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. Combine and build on others’ ideas
   Treat every idea as a building block — the best ideas in a session are usually hybrids.
   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. Use round-robin turns to equalize contribution
   Give everyone a timed, equal turn — it prevents a few voices from dominating and pulls quieter members into the space.
   Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical
4. 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
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. Maximize quantity of ideas before evaluating
   Set an explicit quantity target — generate at least 20 ideas before reviewing any of them.
   The Medici Effect: Innovation at the Intersection
7. 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
8. 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
9. Build a diverse network deliberately
   Connect with people in different disciplines, cultures, and functions — not primarily with people who do what you do.
   The Medici Effect: Innovation at the Intersection
10. Build on others’ ideas with "Yes, and…"
    Make every idea in a group session a platform to build from, not a proposal to assess.
    Creative Confidence, Made Practical

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