Intellectual Team Exercises

→ Brainstorming sessions
– help find → creative → solutions  to problems.  >>>

Story Telling by a Group  
– this creativity exercise is a good ice breaker with a team; it can also be used as an Innoball mini-game to prepare a project for success.

Simulation Games
such as Innoball (Innovation Brainball)  – boost intellectual teamwork and team creativity; they help teams practice inventive thinking and advanced ideation and idea evaluation techniques; they teach how to outsmart diverse enemies of innovation and change; they are fun too.  >>>

Hackathons
– help quickly invent new applications, teach → creativity, socialize, and have fun.  >>  Example

Teach team members advanced ideation techniques.

Help them also fully appreciate how interconnected they are, and the value of → learning from each other, intellectual cross-pollination, integrating and → synergizing of diverse ideas, and constructive → feedback.

When faced with a challenging → problem, consider dividing the intellectual teamwork into two phases – ‘Garden’ and ‘Kitchen’ – to benefits from both → individual  and team creativity.  >>>

Creativity in Groups

Interplay among individuals is essential to the innovation process. While → individual creativity  is important, and even crucial to business, the creativity of groups is often even more important in today's era of → systemic innovation ... More

Leverage Diversity

See diversity as an asset, not a threat. In a diverse team, innovative solutions arise from the presence of multiple → perspectives.  >>>

This is especially true for cross-functional teams where individuals from different backgrounds draw upon their pools of tacit, as well as explicit → knowledge, to contribute.  >>>

→ Loose-Tight Leadership