Coaching practices for In Our Brainstorms Someone Floats Something and the Instinct in the Room Mine Included is to Find the Flaw in it and I Can Watch the Energy Drain Out and People Stop Offering Anything Half Formed
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- In our brainstorms someone floats something and the instinct in the room
- An idea barely forms in my head before I’ve already torn it apart
- We fill the whiteboard with dozens of ideas, the energy is great
- Every time we get the team in a room to brainstorm, the loudest two people steer it and everyone else goes quiet
- I keep brainstorming ways to make this thing succeed and my mind just keeps agreeing with itself
Practices that may help
- 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 - Defer judgment during ideation
Separate generating ideas from evaluating them — criticism comes later, never during.
Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical - 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 - Brainwrite instead of group brainstorm
Have people generate ideas silently and individually first, then pool and build.
Divergent Thinking: Generating Many Ideas - State the goal, then invert it
Ask "what would guarantee I fail at this?" before asking how to succeed.
Inversion: Solve Problems Backward - Defer judgment during generation
Generate ideas with no criticism, then evaluate in a separate pass.
Divergent Thinking: Generating Many Ideas - 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 - Reverse brainstorm: solve the opposite problem first
Ask "How would we guarantee the worst possible outcome?" — then invert every answer.
Lateral Thinking, Made Practical - Ideate — generate options before judging
Produce many candidate solutions, deferring evaluation until you have quantity.
Design Thinking, Step by Step - Defer all judgment during ideation
Separate the generating phase from the evaluating phase — they cannot run simultaneously without killing output.
Creative Confidence, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Brainstorming Without Criticism
Separate generating ideas from evaluating them — criticism comes later, never during.
Defer judgment during ideation
- Brainstorm Before Evaluate
Keep idea generation and idea selection in separate sittings — never mix the modes.
Separate divergence from convergence sessions
- Brainstorming Without Judgment
Separate generating ideas from evaluating them — criticism comes later, never during.
- Build On Ideas Brainstorming
Treat every idea as a building block — the best ideas in a session are usually hybrids.
Combine and build on others’ ideas
- Defer Judgment Brainstorming
Separate generating ideas from evaluating them — criticism comes later, never during.
- Deferred Judgment Brainstorming
Separate generating ideas from evaluating them — criticism comes later, never during.
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