Group Size
- 5-10
Overview
- This activity is great for opening a workshop with a more conservative audience
- It's a short icebreaker and can really set a great tone for a long or short day of work
Materials
- Printer Paper
- Sharpies
Steps
- Write down 5 things you ate or drank this weekend. Write down 5 products you'd find in a bathroom. Everyone has 3 minutes to come up with an idea (business, product, service) involving the items on the third line of your two lines. Present back to the team.
Debrief
“When we get so entrenched in a topic/industry/issue, it’s important to consider techniques like lateral thinking. Your team can make concentrated efforts to move outside of your normal patterns. We should strive to use this kind of thinking in our workshop today to move beyond gut reactions into innovative solutions.”
Theory
Lateral Thinking "is solving problems through an indirect and creative approach, using reasoning that is not immediately obvious and involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic."
Source
Mark Pollard's Sweathead Work Session