self-reflection:
Think about your weekly work life:
- How good are you at taking time out for divergent thinking?
- What sorts of things do you do to diverge your thinking?
- How could you do more of this?
- How good are you at convergent thinking?
- What sort so techniques do you use to aid you in identifying the best ideas?
- How could you encourage others to be more divergent in their thinking?
What’s the biggest insight you’ve taken away from this lesson?
action learning:
Think about a project or challenge you’re working on this week.
- How could you bring more divergent thinking into solving it?
- How could you involve others in this process?
- How could you do this in a manageable length of time?
- What would be the benefit of making this happen?
Then please go do it! :)
Take a problem or challenge you’re working on with your group or team.
Spend 1-hour diverging ideas.
- What new ideas emerge?
- What are the benefits of diverging first?
brainsparker:
Three Divergent Thinking Techniques To Fuel Creativity In Teams
forbes:
The Secret To Creativity and Productivity
idea champions:
First Diverge, Then Converge
In this short video clip (3.38 mins) Anne Manning, who is a Professor at Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education, gives a great explanation of the difference between divergent thinking and convergent thinking.
I encourage you to stand up and do it for yourself because it really embeds the essence of the difference between these two ways of thinking.
Can you feel it?