Team work is not just an employability skill. One of the major reasons for people to work in teams is that a good team is greater than the sum of its parts. A good team – a team that functions effectively as a team – can generate more creative ideas than all of its members working in isolation. But how to get those ideas bouncing around?
The following sections provide you with opportunities to familiarise yourself with some the following problem solving and ideas generation techniques. Some of these approaches force you to ask: What else? What if?
- Brainstorming
- Vertical thinking
- Lateral thinking
- Six hats
- Duncker diagrams
- Mind maps
- SWOT analysis
Learn more about these techniques in Problem Solving skills.
Learning Portfolio
Complete exercise 4 in your Learning Portfolio.