Be A Better Brainstormer

Virtual Classroom e-Learning

Who Needs to Attend

PMP-certified project managers, IT project managers, project coordinators, project analysts, project leaders, senior project managers, team leaders, product managers, program managers, project sponsors, and project team members who want to continue to develop their skills and renew their PMP certification.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Follow-On Courses

Requirements Development, Documentation, and Management (BA20)

Expand your imagination and analyze options systematically.

Improve you and your group's ability to find creative solutions to an issue in a short and focused time frame with the techniques you'll learn in this short course. Discover how to analyze the issue at hand, breaking it into key components. Get an introduction to techniques for expanding idea-generating capabilities and revving creative engines while keeping the target objective in mind. You will learn ways to encourage those who are less able to speak out in a crowd and contain the enthusiasm of those who cannot stop talking. You'll learn techniques for getting the most out of each participant, and you'll come away from the course with strategies for evaluating all those ideas you and your group generated.

Headset not included.

What You'll Learn

New ways to generate more and better ideas
Crank up the creative juices of you and your associates
Tips and techniques for expanding your mindset
Fun ways to keep everyone interested

Course Outline

1. Brainstorming and its benefits

2. How to get the creative juices flowing in people

3. When do we need to use it?

4. How long should you spend at brainstorming?

5. Managing the storm of ideas while maintaining the flow

6. Getting the most out of all of your participants

7. Understanding personality types when in groups

8. What happens when you run out of ideas?

9. Dealing with all the data: How to decide on the best idea or ideas

10. Techniques and tips for warming up participants

11. Are you sure you are working on the right problem or issue?

12. What information would change your idea?

13. Understanding the next step: Critical thinking and analysis

14. Never letting a good idea get away: Analysis techniques

15. Ensuring the correct objective is being brainstormed

16. Keeping everyone focused on the real objective

This is a virtual short course, specially designed to give you a quick, convenient way to earn PMI PDUs or concentrate on a specialized topic. This course is also part of our PMP Renewal Subscription program.