When tackling problems, leaders often employ brainstorming as a tool for the group to develop new ideas and approaches. The most common method is for people to blurt out ideas without pausing to consider practicality. A scribe captures notes on a flip chart or white board. When done via web conferencing, a recording tool or digital white board is used.
To be effective, the session needs to be “judgement free”. No idea is to be considered too outrageous, and creative thinking is encouraged. Quantity of ideas, not quality is the stated goal.
Of course, that sounds wonderful – in theory. Even with the best teams, the reality is very different. Someone makes a gesture or noise expressing judgement on a proposal. People hold back because they don’t want to judged.
This is an opportunity to add AI to the mix. Not to replace humans, but to kickstart the conversation.
As with research, you will achieve better results by providing context to the prompts. Explain the problem or challenge, and request a specific number of ideas to generate. For example, your team wants to improve onboarding new employees. The prompt might look like the following:
The human group can review the results, and select the best ones to expand upon. Additional prompts can then be added to the chat with the AI tool. The AI engine may recommend a “Meet the Full Team Event”. Submit a follow-up prompt that asks for an agenda and set-up that best includes the remote and hybrid teams.
Brainstorming is a great way to approach challenges in the workplace. Adding AI to the team increases the opportunity for generating new ideas.
Amazing Astronomical Fact: The aurora borealis, or northern lights, are amazing and beautiful displays in the night skies of the polar region. It wasn't until the early twentieth century that scientists understood the cause of these celestial events. Through several expeditions, the Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland proposed that the storms were caused by solar activity interacting with the Earth’s magnetic field.
A geomagnetic storm causes the auroral ovals to expand beyond the poles, bringing the aurora to lower latitudes. The photo in this post was taken on the Lake of the Ozarks in southern Missouri on October 10, 2024.
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