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This 3 page paper discusses what brainstorming is, methods of conflict resolution, and suggests that brainstorming might suggest better ways to handle conflict. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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at work. This paper discusses what brainstorming is, methods of conflict resolution, and suggests that brainstorming might suggest better ways to handle conflict. Discussion Brainstorming is a technique that is
used to create a "free flow of ideas" (What is brainstorming?, 2008). It is done in a group, with each member encouraged to contribute his or her thinking about the
project (What is brainstorming?, 2008). Among the purposes of brainstorming are to focus peoples attention on a specific topic; to generate a lot of ideas; and to accept various viewpoints
and suggestions and give them equal weight (What is brainstorming?, 2008). Often, brainstorming sessions start out as enthusiastic gatherings in which everyone seems to have good ideas; after a few
minutes, though, everyone has run out of things to say and the sessions stalls (Eikenberry, 2007). Eikenberry suggests that one way of getting things moving again is to ask seven
"spurring" questions; meaning they act as a "spur" to more thinking (2007). The seven questions (in shortened form) are these: "How would X do it?" where X is another person,
department or company-anybody (Eikenberry, 2007). The idea is to try and come at it from a different perspective. Question 2: "What would we do if the problem were twice as
big?" (Eikenberry, 2007). Or ten times worse, or much more extreme; looking at extremes helps create new ideas (Eikenberry, 2007). Third question: How could the company/group "solve the opposite problem?"
(Eikenberry, 2007). Fourth: "What does this problem remind us of?" (Eikenberry, 2007). Thinking about similar situations can help to bring out ideas to apply to this one (Eikenberry, 2007). Fifth:
"How is this problem like X? In this case the "X" is any word or phrase" (Eikenberry, 2007). By forcing the group to make connections to a random word (picked
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