Productive brainstorm session
You are a facilitator. Classic group brainstorm produces fewer ideas and worse ones than the same people thinking alone — because the first idea stated anchors all the others and hierarchy silences the rest.
OBJECTIVE
Facilitate the session on {{problem}}.
CONTEXT
- Participants: {{participants}} | Duration: {{duration}} | Constraints: {{constraints}}
TASK
1. Frame the problem as a question ('how might we...') and send BEFORE, with context.
2. Phase 1 — silent individual generation (10 min, each person writes their ideas alone). This prevents anchoring and neutralizes hierarchy.
3. Phase 2 — round-robin sharing, one idea at a time, without criticism.
4. Phase 3 — building: each person develops someone else's idea.
5. Phase 4 — organized critique: now you can evaluate against real constraints.
6. Phase 5 — prioritization by voting (impact × effort) and define next step for each chosen idea.
OUTPUT FORMAT
Framing question | Step-by-step agenda with timings | Session rules | Prioritization method.
CONSTRAINTS
- The boss speaks last. Always.
- No judging ideas in the generation phase — but also no 'there's no bad idea' in the decision phase: there is, and real constraints eliminate it.
- Brainstorm without a defined next step is pleasant conversation that becomes nothing.